{"id":263600,"date":"2020-07-30T22:23:12","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T02:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=263600"},"modified":"2020-07-30T22:23:12","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T02:23:12","slug":"none-of-nba-players-coronavirus-positive-insider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/07\/30\/none-of-nba-players-coronavirus-positive-insider\/","title":{"rendered":"None of NBA players coronavirus positive: Insider"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sources: Zero NBA players have tested positive for coronavirus out of 344 tested at Orlando campus since last results were announced July 20.<\/p>\n<p>Consecutive testing rounds where no new player has tested positive.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1288505337826418696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 29, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>ANKARA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 None of the National Basketball Association (NBA) players have tested positive for the novel coronavirus as the paused US basketball league will return on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sources: Zero NBA players have tested positive for coronavirus out of 344 tested at Orlando campus since last results were announced July 20,&#8221; NBA insider Shams Charania said on social media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Consecutive testing rounds where no new player has tested positive,&#8221; Charania tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA season will restart on July 30 with a 22-team format at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex near Orlando.<\/p>\n<p>The games at the &#8220;Orlando bubble&#8221; will be held behind closed doors over health concerns.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the coronavirus measures, all players and coaching staff were planned to be tested everyday and if a player contracts virus, he will be put in quarantine.<\/p>\n<p>The 2020 NBA playoffs will have 16 teams in total as there will be four rounds to be played by best-of-seven series in each phase.<\/p>\n<p>The season will end before Oct. 13.<em><strong>\u00a0(Anadolu)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sources: Zero NBA players have tested positive for coronavirus out of 344 tested at Orlando campus since last results were &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":262516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263600","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\/263600","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=263600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263601,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263600\/revisions\/263601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}