{"id":162662,"date":"2020-07-29T08:54:44","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T06:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=162662"},"modified":"2020-07-29T08:54:44","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T06:54:44","slug":"melbourne-uniteds-mccarron-and-lual-acuil-tests-positive-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/melbourne-uniteds-mccarron-and-lual-acuil-tests-positive-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne United&#8217;s McCarron and Lual-Acuil tests positive for COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne United players Mitch McCarron and Jo Lual-Acuil have tested positive for COVID-19 .<\/p>\n<p>United practices have been suspended, as well as South East Melbourne Phoenix practices.<\/p>\n<p>MSAC show-court has also been temporarily closed.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">New: A pair of Melbourne United players &#8211; Mitch McCarron and Jo Lual-Acuil &#8211; have tested positive for COVID-19. United practices have been suspended, as well as South East Melbourne Phoenix practices. Story soon on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNAusNZ?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ESPNAusNZ<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Olgun Uluc (@OlgunUluc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OlgunUluc\/status\/1288353400048857091?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 29, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">My story for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNAusNZ?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ESPNAusNZ<\/a>, on the two United players testing positive for COVID-19. Along with Melbourne and SEM suspending practice, I&#8217;m told the MSAC show-court has also been temporarily closed.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GPH5xFVl4w\">https:\/\/t.co\/GPH5xFVl4w<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Olgun Uluc (@OlgunUluc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OlgunUluc\/status\/1288356416118390786?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 29, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">One of the big fears is how insulated the Melbourne basketball community is; guys are working out with each other all the time, and some share gyms, trainers, physios, etc. Players who went to Boomers workouts might have also gone to training sessions with NBL teams.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Olgun Uluc (@OlgunUluc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OlgunUluc\/status\/1288362311225241600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 29, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">How does this affect the next NBL season? I don&#8217;t think this specific news matters in the long run (notwithstanding potential individual health factors). I&#8217;m more concerned about the how VIC is currently positioned, and the potential for second and third waves in other states.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Olgun Uluc (@OlgunUluc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OlgunUluc\/status\/1288364333890560002?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 29, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne United players Mitch McCarron and Jo Lual-Acuil have tested positive for COVID-19<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"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":[389],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-162662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia"],"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\/162662","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\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162662"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=162662"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=162662"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=162662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}