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NBA Says 25 Players and 10 Staff Are COVID-19 Positive
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After a first round of Coronavirus testing, the NBA revealed last week that 16 of 302 players were positive.
Today the league provided another round of numbers based on an expanded testing pool, revealing the following via press release:
The NBA and NBPA have announced the following: pic.twitter.com/3axKgMh9WY
— NBA (@NBA) July 2, 2020
25 of 351 players is about 7%, whereas 10 out of 884 staffers is a little more than 1%. Seems like those are manageable numbers with four weeks remaining before the July 30th return to play. Florida is a disaster right now though, so we’ll see what happens.
Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com