{"id":137557,"date":"2020-03-03T10:06:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T09:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=137557"},"modified":"2020-03-03T10:06:01","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T09:06:01","slug":"nba-recommends-fist-bumps-over-high-fives-with-fans-in-the-wake-of-the-coronavirus-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nba-recommends-fist-bumps-over-high-fives-with-fans-in-the-wake-of-the-coronavirus-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA recommends fist-bumps over high-fives with fans in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The coronavirus hit the USA and the NBA is trying to take some measures to reduce the risk of its players.<br \/>\nSome players already took some measures as CJ McCollum that <a href=\"\/?p=137219\">will not sign autograph anymore.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/28823986\/fist-bumps-short-term-recommendations-nba-plots-coronavirus-strategy-memo-says\">Per ESPN<\/a>, Among the NBA&#8217;s short-term recommendations to teams in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, players should utilize fist-bumps over high-fives with fans and avoid taking items such as pens, balls and jerseys to autograph, according to a memo to teams obtained by ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>Among larger concerns being addressed in NBA front offices and the league office is the possibility that pre-draft combines, on-site workouts and international scouting events could become more limited in scope, or even be canceled, based on the possible escalation of the coronavirus outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>Some players are already taking the NBA&#8217;s advice to heart.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Corona,&#8221; Bobby Portis of the New York Knicks said as he offered some fist-bump greetings on Monday night before his team faced the Houston Rockets.<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Butler of the Miami Heat said he wasn&#8217;t necessarily worried or thinking about avoiding high-fives.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think about any of that,&#8221; Butler said. &#8220;I&#8217;m still going to be who I am. We&#8217;re still going to be who we are.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fist-bumps among short-term recommendations as NBA plots coronavirus strategy, memo says<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[12543],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-137557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-coronavirus-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137557"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=137557"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=137557"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=137557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}