Giddey caught up in NBA's grim COVID crisis

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Australian teen prima Josh Giddey has joined Oklahoma City Thunder's lengthy database of players and unit retired of enactment nether the NBA's COVID-19 wellness and information protocols.

Giddey, who leads the Thunder successful rebounds and assists, volition apt miss astatine slightest the adjacent 3 games successful Oklahoma City's schedule.

The 19-year-old was placed nether wellness and information protocols contiguous on with caput manager Mark Daigneault and seasoned teammate Derrick Favors, according to an ESPN report.

With Giddey and Favors retired of action, they present articulation Darius Bazley, Tre Mann, Aleksej Pokusevski and Jeremiah Robinson-Earl arsenic the six existent Thunder players nether COVID-19 protocols.

Meanwhile, the NBA and its Players Association yesterday agreed to a large overhaul of its COVID-19 wellness protocols amid rising outbreaks among teams crossed the league.

The past 2 weeks successful the NBA has seen much than 170 players participate the NBA's wellness and information protocols, successful which individuals person been forced to miss astatine slightest 10 days earlier investigating retired of quarantine.

NBA superstars - Kevin Durant, Giannis Antetokounmpo, DeMar DeRozan, James Harden, LaMelo Ball - are conscionable a tiny fig of high-profile players who person missed extended periods this period owed to squad outbreaks.

Under revised protocols, players tin present permission quarantine aft six days truthful agelong arsenic COVID-19 investigating information tin beryllium they're nary longer astatine hazard of being infectious.

Outbreaks person crippled astir each squad successful the competition, with teams similar Oklahoma City, Detroit, Atlanta, Cleveland, Boston, Brooklyn, Minnesota, Orlando, and Portland presently each missing six oregon much players owed to COVID-19 protocols.

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