NBA reportedly telling teams not to test asymptomatic players, staff when league returns

It’s feeling more and more likely the NBA will return sometime this summer. But will the league be ready to protect it’s players and employees?

According to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, NBA commissioner Adam Silver has told teams not to test players and members of their organization that are not showing symptoms of the coronavirus.

“Once the NBA shared its guidelines with teams on protocols for bringing players into the facility for workouts, it prohibited the use of tests on players unless they were showing Covid-19 symptoms,” reports Wojnarowski.

“For the time being, it is not appropriate in the current public health environment to regularly test all players and staff for the coronavirus” 

The league’s stance on this is they don’t want to take too many test kits away from people in the general public who are in desperate need of being tested.

It is not yet known when the league will restart, or which locations will be used for venues.