{"id":259989,"date":"2020-07-01T00:29:28","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T04:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=259989"},"modified":"2020-07-01T00:29:28","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T04:29:28","slug":"nba-2-brooklyn-nets-players-test-positive-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/07\/01\/nba-2-brooklyn-nets-players-test-positive-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA: 2 Brooklyn Nets players test positive for Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_259990\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-259990\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/white-and-red-basketball-system-3189980.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-259990 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/white-and-red-basketball-system-3189980.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/white-and-red-basketball-system-3189980.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/white-and-red-basketball-system-3189980-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/white-and-red-basketball-system-3189980-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-259990\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The NBA will resume on July 30 with 22 teams set to play games at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex near Orlando, Florida.\u00a0(Pexels photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>ANKARA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Two Brooklyn Nets players DeAndre Jordan and Spencer Dinwiddie have tested positive for the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), according to an NBA insider late Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo Brooklyn Nets have tested positive for the coronavirus \u2013 Jordan and Spencer Dinwiddie. Jordan has opted-out of Orlando and Dinwiddie is strongly considering the same. Nets will sign a substitute for Jordan, per sources,\u201d senior American sports reporter Adrian Wojnarowski said in a tweet.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan, 31, also confirmed the news in a tweet: \u201cFound out last night and confirmed again today that I\u2019ve tested positive for Covid while being back in market. As a result of this, I will not be in Orlando for the resumption of the season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Point guard Dinwiddie, 27, clarified in a tweet that he was still keen to play.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, I have been one of the cases that has various symptoms,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA will resume on July 30 with 22 teams set to play games at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex near Orlando, Florida.\u00a0<em><strong>(Anadolu)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA\u00a0\u2013 Two Brooklyn Nets players DeAndre Jordan and Spencer Dinwiddie have tested positive for the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), according &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":259990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259989","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\/259989","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=259989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259991,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259989\/revisions\/259991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}