{"id":259413,"date":"2020-06-25T23:53:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T03:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=259413"},"modified":"2020-06-25T23:53:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T03:53:19","slug":"jump-in-coronavirus-cases-jolts-nba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/06\/25\/jump-in-coronavirus-cases-jolts-nba\/","title":{"rendered":"Jump in coronavirus cases jolts NBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_247995\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-247995\" style=\"width: 2400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/edgar-chaparro-kB5DnieBLtM-unsplash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-247995 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/edgar-chaparro-kB5DnieBLtM-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2400\" height=\"1601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/edgar-chaparro-kB5DnieBLtM-unsplash.jpg 2400w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/edgar-chaparro-kB5DnieBLtM-unsplash-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/edgar-chaparro-kB5DnieBLtM-unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/edgar-chaparro-kB5DnieBLtM-unsplash-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-247995\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The NBA is set to return with a 22-team format at Walt Disney World Resort near Orlando, Florida, with a tentative start date of July 31. (File Photo by Edgar Chaparro\/Unsplash)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>ANKARA \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0News of multiple coronavirus disease (Covid-19) cases in the Sacramento Kings are jolting the NBA, but the US basketball league is still set to return next month.<\/p>\n<p>The Kings\u2019 Buddy Hield, Alex Len and Jabari Parker have all tested positive for Covid-19, the disease caused by coronavirus, according to insiders and the league itself.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kings guard Buddy Hield has tested positive for coronavirus, sources tell me and Sam Amick,&#8221; sports reporter Shams Charania wrote Thursday on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sacramento Kings players Alex Len and Jabari Parker confirmed Wednesday that each had tested positive for the novel coronavirus,&#8221; the NBA said on its website.<\/p>\n<p>Hield, 27, averaged 19.8 points, 4.8 rebounds, and 3.1 assists this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Kings&#8217; 25-year-old power forward Parker clocked up 14.7 points and 5.9 rebounds per match.<\/p>\n<p>Len is a center for the California team, averaging 8.3 points and 6 rebounds in the 2019-20 season.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA is set to return with a 22-team format at Walt Disney World Resort near Orlando, Florida, with a tentative start date of July 31.<\/p>\n<p>But the league is still wrestling with the virus, which has killed more people in the United States than any other country, and a surge in case numbers not seen since April, including in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Nikola Jokic of the Denver Nuggets also tested positive for the virus in his home country Serbia on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Malcolm Brogdon, who plays guard for the Indiana Pacers, confirmed he had also contracted the virus.\u00a0<em><strong>(Anadolu)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; ANKARA \u2013\u00a0News of multiple coronavirus disease (Covid-19) cases in the Sacramento Kings are jolting the NBA, but the US &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":247995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","mauthors-anadolu","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259414,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259413\/revisions\/259414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}