Shortly before the U.S. Olympic basketball team was scheduled to fly to Japan on Monday, they found out the Bulls’ Zach LaVine has entered the health and safety protocols and wouldn’t be accompanying them on the flight to Tokyo.
“Zach LaVine has been placed under USA Basketball’s health & safety protocols & will not travel with the team to Tokyo today,” USA Basketball tweeted. “We hope that Zach will be able to join the team in Tokyo later this week.”
Team USA last week announced that Bradley Beal will miss the Olympics after being placed into health and safety protocols. The Americans also announced that forward Jerami Grant has also been played in health and safety protocols “out of an abundance of caution.”
An outstanding performance at the Tokyo games could help LaVine’s efforts to recruit new talent to the Bulls.
