SALT LAKE CITY — In areas where COVID-19 testing is readily available, NBA teams that are reopening practice facilities will be able to test asymptomatic players and staff, according to a report from ESPN.
Teams in cities where restrictions allow for it are now able to open practice facilities for individual, voluntary workouts. In a previous memo sent to teams that laid out health and safety requirements of practice facilities upon reopening, teams were specifically prohibited from testing asymptomatic players and staff.
Teams were recently informed of a “limited exception” to previous guidelines in which the NBA will approve a written authorization from a local health authority that confirms a “robust testing program in place for at-risk health care workers” in the team’s community, sources told ESPN.