Brooklyn is going the way of the Chicago Bulls, who are on a break from action due to a similar rash of positive tests, after Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving entered the chat, and they became the eighth and ninth Nets player to do so.
The NBA has mass postponements, cancellation and possibly even a stoppage of play in its future because of the second case of COVID that Kevin Durant has, and it is a sign that the NBA, like the NHL, the NFL and the EPL, has mass postponements, cancellation and possibly
Irving is in protocols before he comes back from sitting out the entire season because he didn't want to get vaccine. Something, something, don't count your chickens before they hatch, can be said about Irving, but not about Durant.
I would be surprised if his reaction was the same as it was the first time, which was to play it cool.
He told Ben Golliver of the Washington Post that he was alive. That is it. I can only tell you that. I am good. The unknown is scary but I have a lot of support.
He has been through it before, so it is known and less scary, but his departure leaves a lot of unknown as there is a Christmas lineup featuring James Harden, Russell Westbrook, and Giannis Antetokounmpo.
You can preach the shut it down rhetoric all you want, but capitalism probably won't allow that until after the Christmas Day massacre games.
It can be called cynical. If the unofficial start to the season went ahead without KD, would you be surprised? The Nets play the Lakers, who could be without Anthony Davis due to his latest leg injury, but will have King James. I laughed as well.
Shutting down the Nets will cause a complete disaster for the league. It's a slight upgrade to see James and the Lakers against a bunch of scrubs, but it's not a guarantee that they'll make it a week.
It sucks for all hoops fans when good-to-great players miss games. We will see how many superstars enter the COVID protocols and how many teams take breaks, but you get the feeling that a drastic move happening is about as likely as possible.
