The National Basketball Association sent a memo to all 30 teams to prepare playing without fans, due to corona virus continuously spreading around the world specially United States where 29 NBA teams are present and 1 team from Canada “Toronto Raptors” which already had cases of Corona Virus.
The memo said teams should also “prepare for the possibility of implementing temperature checks on players, team staff, referees, and anyone else who is essential to conducting such a game in the team’s arena.”
Based on worldometer , live update of confirmed cases and death of Corona virus, as of this writing, there are 103,882 confirm cases globally and 3, 522 deaths.
In an article posted in thenation website, it stated that there is a possibility that the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics could be suspended, Chinese Basketball Association already suspended their season last February due to massive spreading of Corona Virus.
“I don’t think you ever want to play games in front of no audiences,” said Houston Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta.
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