NBA season to get underway on July 30 at three venues at Disney World's ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Florida
Health officials in Florida on Friday announced 8,942 new cases of the disease, smashing the previous single-day record of 5,511 set earlier this week.
"It's a closed network and while it's not impermeable we are in essence protected from cases around us. For those reasons we're still very comfortable being in Orlando. Silver meanwhile said isolated coronavirus cases which emerged during the restarted season would see players placed in quarantine. "But we're working closely with the players association, Disney and public health officials in Florida as to what that line should be and as yet it hasn't been precisely defined.
Silver said the decision to resume the season on a "closed campus" had not been the NBA's preferred option."It was not our first choice to play on a closed campus. The data led us to conclude we did need to play on a closed campus under the protocols we're talking about -- mandatory masking, no fans, contact tracing, aggressive testing etc.
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