As NBA teams prepare to tip-off their regular seasons beginning the week of Dec. 21, the league has been working feverishly to distribute updated COVID-19 guidelines.
In the interim, teams have begun testing their personnel, with the league announcing last week that of the 546 players between Nov. 24 and Nov. 30, that 48 of them returned positive COVID-19 tests.
The identities of the individual players weren’t released, but on Sunday, Thunder head coach Mark Daigneault revealed that the team had two positive COVID tests among its players.
Although the coach did specify that two Thunder players tested positive, Daigneault (predictably) wouldn’t reveal their identities.
As a result of the positive tests, the team was limited to 11-15 players in practice.
Daigneault did not disclose which players, per NBA guidelines. Daigneault said the Thunder fluctuated between 11-15 players today for the first team practice of training camp.
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The trade involving Danny Green being sent to Philadelphia in exchange for a package including veteran Al Horford is expected to be officially completed this week, meaning that the club could be getting some additional bodies.
For Oklahoma City, preseason competition will commence on Dec. 12 when the team pays a visit to the San Antonio Spurs.
Hopefully, by then, the club will all of its bodies available.
