Member of Sixers training staff has positive test, more contact tracing
Another member of the Philadelphia 76ers has registered a positive coronavirus test. The team was stuck in New York on Thursday following their loss to the Brooklyn Nets due to a positive test from guard Seth Curry.
This time, it is a member of the training staff. The team is headed back to Philadelphia in a separate bus and in private cars in order to get back to the city safely, but The Athletic and The Stadium’s Shams Charania reports that the training staff member now has a positive test and more contact tracing will be conducted. No other player has been known test positive at the moment.
A member of the 76ers training staff has registered a positive coronavirus test, leading to additional contact tracing within team, sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium. NBA is continuing its review process.
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) January 9, 2021
Due to contact tracing and all of the health and safety protocols, the league has in place to play the 2020-21 season safely, the Sixers matchup with the Denver Nuggets on Saturday is in danger of being postponed. Philadelphia will already be missing Curry, Furkan Korkmaz, Mike Scott, and Terrance Ferguson, but there are seven other players who are considered close contacts and they might be forced to quarantine and miss the game. That would put the Sixers below eight players and mean that the game would be postponed.
