{"id":250067,"date":"2021-12-03T08:30:09","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T07:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=250067"},"modified":"2021-12-03T08:30:09","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T07:30:09","slug":"lebron-james-tests-negative-clears-health-safety-protocols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/lebron-james-tests-negative-clears-health-safety-protocols\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James tests negative, clears health &#038; safety protocols"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-147 Component-p-0-2-138\">LeBron James has been cleared to return to the Los Angeles Lakers after missing one game under the NBA\u2019s health and safety protocols.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-147 Component-p-0-2-138\">The league said Thursday that James is not positive for COVID-19 despite a series of tests that produced conflicting results earlier this week. Additional testing cleared James to play when the Lakers host the Los Angeles Clippers on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollowing two negative PCR tests conducted more than 24 hours apart, Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James has cleared the NBA\u2019s Health &amp; Safety Protocols,\u201d the league said in a statement. \u201cJames was originally placed in the Protocols on Tuesday, November 30 after a series of tests delivered conflicting results, including an initial positive test that was collected on November 29.\u00a0 Additional testing confirmed that he is not a positive case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn accordance with the Protocols, and the consistent testing practice that has been in place since the 2019-20 Season Restart in Orlando, the sample that produced the initial positive test was re-run twice and returned one negative and one positive result on two different PCR instruments. \u00a0As a result, James underwent additional testing on November 30, with one test returning a negative result and a second test resulting in a clinically inconclusive result.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-147 Component-p-0-2-138\">James got an initial positive test from a sample collected on Monday. The sample was retested twice, producing one positive and one negative result. James underwent additional testing Tuesday, but those tests returned one negative result and one clinically inconclusive result, according to the league.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-147 Component-p-0-2-138\">James said earlier in the season that he is vaccinated. A clear positive test likely would have kept James away from the Lakers for 10 days or more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-147 Component-p-0-2-138\">James has missed 12 of the Lakers\u2019 23 games this season, with 10 due to injuries. He also missed one game while serving the first suspension of his 19-year NBA career for an altercation with Detroit\u2019s Isaiah Stewart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-147 Component-p-0-2-138\">The Lakers are 5-7 without James and 7-4 with him. They began Thursday in sixth place in the Western Conference despite their thoroughly overhauled roster around James and Anthony Davis, along with significant injury problems for several expected regulars.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Additional testing confirmed that James is not a positive case<\/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":[92],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[15725],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-250067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","typology-comunicato"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>LeBron James tests negative, clears health &amp; 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