The NBA has postponed the Golden State-Denver sport scheduled for Thursday night time after COVID-related points have left the Nuggets with out the mandatory eight gamers required to play.
It’s the eleventh sport to be postponed this season for COVID-related causes.
Nuggets coach Michael Malone entered the league’s well being and security protocols earlier Thursday together with different employees members, together with two assistant coaches, sources informed ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
Nuggets forwards Jeff Inexperienced and Zeke Nnaji and guard Bones Hyland had additionally entered protocols Thursday, the group stated.
Along with the protocols, the Nuggets are coping with a number of accidents, together with questionable standing on 4 gamers: Monte Morris, Aaron Gordon, Austin Rivers and Vlatko Cancar.
Warriors ahead Draymond Inexperienced took to social media to vent his frustrations over the sport being postponed.
How do you proceed to cancel video games whenever you’ve carried out guidelines to forestall this from taking place? Is that not a aggressive benefit for different groups? The blokes we did not have as a result of protocol checklist performed no position in Tuesdays loss? Decide a aspect however do not straddle the fence.
— Draymond Inexperienced (@Money23Green) December 30, 2021
“How do you proceed to cancel video games whenever you’ve carried out guidelines to forestall this from taking place?” Green posted to Twitter. “Is that not a aggressive benefit for different groups? The blokes we did not have as a result of protocol checklist performed no position in Tuesdays loss? Decide a aspect however do not straddle the fence.
“So when the sport is rescheduled(which is able to in all probability take a day away from our “break”), we wil play them at full power… However they obtained to sneak a win after we weren’t at full power, solely two days in the past??? Let’s make it make some sense right here.”
Inexperienced stated the postponement additionally would seemingly add a back-to-back to the Warriors’ schedule, “which can also be benefit Denver.”
Assistant coach David Adelman will function appearing head coach for the Nuggets throughout Malone’s absence, sources informed ESPN.
Malone joins Doc Rivers (Philadelphia), Frank Vogel (Lakers), Monty Williams (Phoenix), Billy Donovan (Chicago), Chauncey Billups (Portland) and Mark Daigneault (Oklahoma Metropolis) as NBA coaches who’ve entered the COVID-19 protocols.
The Denver Put up first reported about Malone and Adelman.