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Justin Quinn

Shams: NBA sets new COVID-19 protocols for 2022-23 season

We may not know how COVID-19 will affect the NBA and Boston Celtics in the 2022-23 season, but we know more about how the league plans to mitigate it.

A recent tweet from The Athletic NBA Insider Shams Charania reports the league has a plan in place to prevent games from needing to be rescheduled or canceled entirely due to outbreaks via a multi-pronged strategy.

That approach will include once-weekly surveillance testing for players who are still unvaccinated, tests for vaccinated players when they are symptomatic, and immediate isolation of the player upon return of a positive COVID-19 test result.

Facemasks will not be required for the 2022-23 season’s COVID-19 protocol, per Charania.

It is unclear whether the league has a contingency plan should outbreaks begin and/or ambient cases rise to a degree that might warrant a change to the protocol.

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