{"id":197100,"date":"2021-01-28T11:52:40","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T10:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=197100"},"modified":"2021-01-28T11:52:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T10:52:40","slug":"nba-adjusts-schedules-for-virus-affected-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nba-adjusts-schedules-for-virus-affected-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA adjusts schedules for virus-affected teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-146 Component-p-0-2-137\">Washington\u2019s second-half schedule might not be as jam-packed as first thought, after\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/nba-to-adjust-schedule-for-first-half-of-2020-21-season\">the NBA said Wednesday<\/a>\u00a0it was rescheduling some Wizards games after a half-dozen of their contests were postponed in recent weeks for virus-related reasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-146 Component-p-0-2-137\">Portland will now visit Washington on Tuesday, a game that was originally set for the second half. Washington will play at Charlotte on Feb. 7, a game that was rescheduled from Jan. 20. And that means the Blazers, who were scheduled to visit the Hornets that day, will now go to Charlotte in the second half of the schedule.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-146 Component-p-0-2-137\">The league has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/postponed-games-2020-21-index\">postponed 22 games<\/a>\u00a0so far this season, 21 of them since Jan. 10. The original intent was to push all those postponed games into the second half, when possible; now, the league said it would move some games into the first-half schedules, \u201cwith a specific focus on the teams with the most postponed games to date.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-146 Component-p-0-2-137\">That would certainly include Washington and Memphis, both of which have seen a league-high six games postponed. The Wizards went 13 days without games after six players tested positive for COVID-19 and three others had to sit out because of contact tracing. The Grizzlies will have gone 12 days without games if they play, as planned, in San Antonio on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-146 Component-p-0-2-137\">Some good news for the league on Wednesday: The Grizzlies said they were returning to practice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-146 Component-p-0-2-137\">And even better news: The NBA and the National Basketball Players Association said Wednesday that only one player in the league tested positive for COVID-19 in the past seven days, down from 16 two weeks ago and 11 last week. It remains possible that some of the stronger protocols put in place earlier this month, such as not allowing players to leave hotels on road trips for almost any reason other than games or practices, may be somewhat loosened soon as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-146 Component-p-0-2-137\">Without the schedule changes by the NBA, the Wizards and Grizzlies may have been looking at playing 41 times in 67 days during the second half of the season \u2014 which will stretch from March 11 through May 16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-146 Component-p-0-2-137\">Boston and Phoenix have had three games postponed apiece so far, and it\u2019s not yet known publicly how their first-half schedules will be adjusted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-146 Component-p-0-2-137\">\u201cI\u2019ve heard about one. I don\u2019t think I\u2019m supposed to say, so I won\u2019t,\u201d Celtics coach Brad Stevens said Wednesday. \u201cMy preference is that they consider our travel appropriately. So, that\u2019s the only thing I have to say about it. We obviously know in this condensed schedule anyway that we were going to be nonstop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-146 Component-p-0-2-137\">\u201cWe\u2019re just going to try to do our best to be ready for the next night, wherever that may be, whoever we may be playing and hopefully improve ourselves a little bit,\u201d Stevens added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-146 Component-p-0-2-137\">Teams also began arriving Wednesday at Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, to begin quarantine and prepping for the G League season, which \u2014 like the NBA did last season \u2014 will utilize a bubble.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-146 Component-p-0-2-137\">The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gleague.nba.com\/news\/nba-g-league-tips-off-feb-10-at-disney\/\">G League released its 135-game schedule<\/a>\u00a0for the 18 teams that will be taking part. All teams will play 15 games from Feb. 10 through March 6. 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