The NBA has sent a memo to its teams outlining the procedure for getting players to Orlando who aren’t able to travel on the team charter, writes Malika Andrews of ESPN. Any player who misses a COVID-19 test in the two days before the departure date or who has “extenuating circumstances” that the league is aware of will be required to arrange his own travel.
Options include a charter flight at the player’s expense, flying commercial or traveling by car. Players who fly privately or drive will have to register negative results on two coronavirus tests before beginning basketball activities at Walt Disney World. Players who opt for commercial flights will need three negative test results.
All 22 teams involved in the restart are scheduled to arrive in Orlando on staggered schedules from Tuesday through Thursday. The NBA requires players who have contracted the virus to quarantine and then have two negative tests before they are cleared to travel with their teams, so those who tested positive in the last week will be excluded from those flights. Andrews notes that the Heat and Nuggets have both recently experienced multiple positive tests among their traveling parties.
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