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11.12.2021 / 19:47

Chicago Bulls Facing A Possible Outbreak With 5 Players In Health And Saftey Protocol

The Chicago Bull has been one of the NBA’s hottest teams so far in the 2021-22 season but it seems the windy city has hit a speedbump as Derrick Jones Jr. has been placed on the NBA’s Health and Saftey Protocol.

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Toronto Raptors coach Nick Nurse finally has all of his roster back

Toronto Raptors seem to have put their health troubles behind them — finally.Raptors coach Nick Nurse had his full roster at practice on Thursday for the first time in two weeks, which is good news for a team that has lost six straight and plummeted to 11th in the Eastern Conference.“It’s nice to be able to run multiple groups of whatever we’re doing. We even ran some stations today, believe it or not, we had enough people (for) three stations,” Nurse said after practice.

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Toronto Raptors clear Siakam, VanVleet, Flynn and McCaw to return to practice

Toronto Raptors are one step closer to returning.Pascal Siakam, Fred VanVleet, Malachi Flynn and Patrick McCaw were cleared to practise in Detroit on Tuesday after being sidelined for health and safety protocols for more than a week.Siakam, McCaw and Flynn were upgraded to “questionable” for Wednesday’s game against the Pistons, while VanVleet is listed as “doubtful.” Charlotte Hornets defeat short-handed Toronto Raptors 114-104 VanVleet spoke with media Tuesday after practice for the first time since being sidelined and confirmed he tested positive for COVID-19, suffering symptoms he called “pretty rough.”Their return would be good news for a Raptors team that has lost five straight to drop to 11th in the Eastern Conference at 17-22.OG

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Toronto Raptors still missing 5 players due to COVID-19 health and safety protocols

Raptor.On a night the Raptors announced more bad news — the continued absence of Pascal Siakam, Fred VanVleet, OG Anunoby, and two other players because of COVID-19 health and safety protocols — that was one small glimmer of good.Although Lowry, whose been mentioned in trade rumours ahead of the March 25 deadline, was non-committal about his immediate future.“Let me say this: I will retire as a Toronto Raptor. That, if I’m here, I will retire as a Toronto Raptor.

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Rick Zamperin: One year after coronavirus hit, sports industry continues to struggles

COVID-19 pandemic one year ago.Despite bubble cities, shortened seasons and the constant testing of athletes for the novel coronavirus, what we have been left with is an industry that is a shell of its former self.Yes, the National Hockey League was able to pull off a successful bubble in Toronto and Edmonton last summer and award the Stanley Cup, and the National Basketball Association pulled off the same feat in their bubble at Disney World, but it just wasn’t the same without a live crowd to cheer and jeer the highs and lows of each game.Major League Baseball and Major League Soccer figured out how to make their shortened seasons work in the face of numerous positive COVID-19 tests at the onset of their respective campaigns, while the

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Powell, Lowry do their bit but undermanned Toronto Raptors beaten handily by the Pistons

Toronto Raptors, missing five players and seven staff members including head coach Nick Nurse, needed help Wednesday.Norm Powell and Kyle Lowry, the only two regular starters available, didn’t get it as the Raptors started well but predictably faded fast in a 129-105 loss to the Detroit Pistons.The Raptors (17-18) were without starters Pascal Siakam, Fred VanVleet and OG Anunoby as well as Malachi Flynn and Patrick McCaw due to the league’s health and safety protocols.Siakam, VanVleet and Anunoby had accounted for 1,603 points this season, 42 percent of Toronto’s total prior to Wednesday. COVID-19 health and safety protocols postpone Raptors-Pistons game Powell scored a season-high 36 points and Lowry added 21.

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After dodging COVID-19 for months, the Toronto Raptors are feeling full force of pandemic

Toronto Raptors had largely dodged COVID-19 for the first half of an NBA season reeling from the global pandemic.But the Raptors are feeling the full force of it now, preparing to host the Detroit Pistons with a skeleton roster and coaching staff.Starters Fred VanVleet, Pascal Siakam and OG Anunoby, plus Malachi Flynn and Patrick McCaw have all been ruled out of Toronto’s rescheduled game Wednesday against visiting Detroit, along with head coach Nick Nurse and most of his coaching staff.Asked what he’s learned from the team’s first major brush with the virus, GM Bobby Webster said: “That you don’t ever want to go through it again.

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Toronto Raptors’ game against Chicago Bulls postponed because of COVID-19

Toronto Raptors game against Chicago has been postponed due to COVID-19 health and safety protocols.A statement from the NBA says that because of positive test results and ongoing contract tracing, the Raptors don’t have the league-required eight available players.The Raptors were missing head coach Nick Nurse, five members of his staff and star forward Pascal Siakam for Friday’s win over Houston.

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Toronto Raptors coach Nick Nurse says he has to stop pulling his mask down during games

Toronto Raptors coach Nick Nurse says he has to do a better job of keeping his mask on during games.During the NBA team’s first 10 games, Nurse often has been seen on television with his mask pulled down under his nose and mouth.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]NBA coaches are being told to wear masks at all times during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Adam Silver and Jalen Rose talk social justice, NBA’s COVID challenges

after what he pulled off last season, should have a Vegas residency. How else can you explain this: He oversaw the NBA bubble, which allowed teams to finish the season, have playoffs and crown a champion — all without one positive COVID-19 case inside the bubble.

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Ujiri: Raptors’ unique trait is ‘togetherness,’ says Toronto will adapt to Tampa

Tampa.As the NBA’s only team playing outside of its market — and country — this season, the Toronto Raptors have numerous hurdles to clear.But team president Masai Ujiri said if there’s a unique trait about Toronto, it’s his roster’s ability to come together in the face of big challenges.He expects nothing less in this bizarre campaign.“Listen, this is not an easy task here,” Ujiri said on a Zoom video conference call Saturday. “There’s a lot of sacrifices to it.

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Canada reviewing NBA plan for Raptors to play in Toronto amid coronavirus: minister

NBA and the Raptors to play in Toronto amid the coronavirus pandemic.A spokesman for Health Minister Patty Hajdu said Tuesday officials have been in contact with the Raptors and will continue to engage with them “in the coming weeks.” Raptors general manager Bobby Webster told Sportsnet television the team needs to know “in the coming days. This is not a next week type thing.”The Raptors and the NBA need an exemption to a requirement that anyone entering Canada for nonessential reasons must self-isolate for 14 days.

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Deputy public health chief says challenges remain for Toronto Raptors to play at home

Toronto Raptors have presented a good plan to play at home this coming NBA season, but concerns remain over enforcing strict health protocols and travel over the border with the United States.Dr. Howard Njoo said Friday that public health officials from Ontario, Toronto and the Public Health Agency of Canada have had discussions with the Raptors, who are hoping to play at Scotiabank Arena despite spikes in COVID-19 cases at home and in the U.S.Njoo said the Raptors presented a plan with good health protocols and have learned from the NBA’s “bubble” experiment, when the league finished the 2019-20 season at an isolated campus near Orlando, Fla.

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Ujiri hopes Raptors can play in Toronto as COVID-19 cases spike

Raptors president Masai Ujiri says he hopes his team will play the next NBA season at Scotiabank Arena, despite rising COVID-19 cases both in Toronto and in the United States.Speaking Thursday morning on CBC Radio’s “The Current,” Ujiri said he was “sensitive” to the pandemic and understood the difficulties of playing the upcoming season in Toronto. The international border with the United States remains closed to non-essential travel, and a mandatory 14-day quarantine is in effect for those entering Canada.

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Rick Zamperin: More fans are returning to live sporting events during coronavirus pandemic

COVID-19 pandemic, we have not had the chance to experience the thrill that live sports provides, in person, for nearly seven months now.

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COMMENTARY: The NBA bubble strategy shows us what future live performances could be like

125-122 win at the end of two (two!) overtime periods was an instant classic.From within our respective cars, the shared excitement felt a lot like being back in Scotiabank Arena. Of course, I didn’t see the game “live.” But for a brief moment there was a palpable feeling of “we” back in “We the North.” (Unfortunately, the Raptors lost Game 7 and were eliminated by the Celtics.)It’s been six months since COVID-19 emerged in North America, causing theatres to close.

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UBC-Okanagan men’s basketball hosts NBA coach

University basketball is in a holding pattern due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic but one university team in the Okanagan is using its first semester to perfect their game.It’s been deemed a developmental year for the UBC-Okanagan men’s basketball team, after their season has been put on hiatus.“We are keeping our fingers crossed that we might get a season.

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Rick Zamperin: Contract extension for Nick Nurse a win-win for him and the Raptors

Toronto Raptors announced Tuesday that head coach Nick Nurse has been signed to a multi-year contract extension.The announcement comes four days after the Raptors were bounced from the second round of the NBA playoffs, and the Disney bubble, by the Boston Celtics.The deal is a win-win for the organization and Nurse himself, who became Toronto’s head coach on June 13, 2018, following the dismissal of Dwane Casey.

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Boston Celtics knock Toronto Raptors out of NBA Playoffs with 92-87 Game 7 win

Toronto Raptors‘ season is over, the defending NBA champions done in by turnovers.Jayson Tatum had 29 points while Jaylen Brown added 21 and the Boston Celtics beat Toronto 92-87 on Friday night to take the best-of-seven Eastern Conference semifinal 4-3.The Celtics move on to face the Miami Heat in the conference finals, while the Raptors head into an off-season of uncertainty unlike any other.Fred VanVleet had 20 points, while Kyle Lowry 16 points, and Serge Ibaka finished with 14 off the bench for the Raptors.“It’s sad that we had more to give, and now we can’t give anymore,” said Lowry.It was yet another rough offensive night for Pascal Siakam, who led the NBA in scoring this season before the league shuttered on March 11 due to

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Toronto Raptors force Game 7 against Boston Celtics with double overtime thriller

Toronto Raptors’ second-round playoff series against the Boston Celtics has come down to just one game.But after a thriller that took double overtime to decide, Friday’s do-or-die Game 7 might come down to which team has the most left in the tank. Boston Celtics take 3-2 series lead with 111-89 win against Toronto Raptors Kyle Lowry poured in 33 points, including a key fadeaway jumper in the dying seconds, and the Raptors edged the Celtics 125-122 in double overtime on Wednesday to even up the best-of-seven Eastern Conference semifinals at three games apiece.Friday’s winner will meet the Miami Heat in the conference finals.Norman Powell had 23 points off the bench for the Raptors and was outstanding in overtime.

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Buzzer-beater by OG Anunoby lifts Toronto Raptors to 104-103 victory over Boston Celtics

Toronto Raptors suddenly have life.OG Anunoby caught a crosscourt inbounds pass from Kyle Lowry and hit a 3-pointer with no time remaining, and the Raptors beat the Boston Celtics 104-103 in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference semifinal series Thursday night.Toronto cut Boston’s series lead to 2-1. The Celtics took a two-point lead when Kemba Walker found Daniel Theis for a dunk with a half-second left.No team in NBA history has rallied from a 3-0 series deficit.

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Tiger-Cats star Simoni Lawrence believes CFL players would have boycotted games

boycotted games this week following the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the issue of racial injustice has hit close to home for a Canadian Football League star.Hamilton Tiger-Cats linebacker Simoni Lawrence calls the situation in America “bulls—.”“It’s tough to deal with, especially being in the States,” said Lawrence, who is at home in Pennsylvania after the coronavirus pandemic forced the CFL to cancel the 2020 season.“Every cop is not a bad cop,” he said.

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NBA Playoffs: Toronto Raptors sweep 1st round with 150-122 win over Brooklyn Nets

Toronto Raptors coach Nick Nurse named NBA coach of the year Pascal Siakam had 20 points and 10 assists for the Raptors. They upped their record to 11-1 in the bubble and made it clear it won’t be easy to knock them off their spot atop the NBA.Boston handed Toronto its lone loss since the restart and will be a much sterner test than the undermanned Nets, who were using converted guards as forwards, and forwards as centres.The Raptors would likely need Lowry for that one.

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Toronto Raptors coach Nick Nurse named NBA coach of the year

Toronto Raptors head coach Nick Nurse has been named the NBA Coach of the Year.Nurse, who has the Raptors on the verge of the second round of the playoffs, was a runaway winner, receiving 90 first-place votes from a panel of 100 sportswriters and broadcasters. He finished with 470 points.Milwaukee coach Mike Budenholzer was second after leading the Bucks to the best record in the suspended season, earning 147 points.

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FDA grants emergency approval for ‘groundbreaking’ coronavirus saliva test used by NBA

COVID-19, after a trial on National Basketball Association players and staff.SalivaDirect, the fifth saliva test approved by the FDA for the disease, requires no swab or collection device and uses spit from people suspected of having the coronavirus, the agency said.

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Sports return ‘different’ but welcomed by N.B. fans, athletes and coaches

The New Reality: What will the future of sports look like? “It’s different,” he says. “(Leagues) can’t take a chance.

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NBA champions Toronto Raptors ready to pick up where they left off

Raptors were the hottest team in the NBA in early March, on a league-best four-game winning streak, coming off a solid west coast road swing and having just clinched a playoff spot. They were gleefully making their pre-season critics eat their words.Then the threat of COVID-19 swept through sports like a prairie fire.

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NBA returns with players, coaches, refs kneeling during national anthem

NBA had a strong, powerful re-opening night message. Coronavirus: NBA announces July 30 start for rest of season, playoffs in August When it comes to demanding change, the league stands united — and Thursday, the four teams that played on the first night of the league’s restart showed that by not standing.They were unprecedented images for the league in unprecedented times: The Utah Jazz and New Orleans Pelicans knelt alongside one another during “The Star-Spangled Banner,” their way of joining the chorus of those demanding racial justice and equality in society.

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Raptors have a message for around 650K Americans living in Canada: register to vote

Toronto Raptors coach Nick Nurse “hardly any of them vote.”When racial unrest erupted in the United States several weeks ago, NBA coaches and players quickly came together to brainstorm ideas to help in the fight against racial and social injustice. Toronto Raptors guard VanVleet says people ‘fed up’ with racism and discrimination One of the Raptors’ initiatives was a social media campaign to urge Americans living north of the border to vote in November’s U.S.

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Toronto Raptor Fred VanVleet joins initiative for people to support local business amid COVID-19

Toronto Raptors guard Fred VanVleet has partnered with American Express Canada on a campaign to encourage people to shop small and support local business amid the coronavirus pandemic.“I grew up in a smaller town … I eventually was able to branch out and build my own small business so when this opportunity presented itself, it just made sense,” VanVleet told Global News from Florida where the team is currently quarantining before the NBA resumes. Coronavirus: NBA announces July 30 start for rest of season, playoffs in August “This was something that came at a good time, people going through pandemics.

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Rick Zamperin: Auston Matthews’ positive coronavirus test shows why NHL bubble is important

Toronto Maple Leafs star Auston Matthews confirmed Monday that he tested positive for the novel coronavirus in Arizona last month while the NHL season was on pause.The 22-year-old centre shared the news with reporters on a Zoom call on day one of the National Hockey League‘s summer training camps, as the Leafs and 23 other teams entered Phase 3 of the league’s return-to-play plan.Matthews said he was “asymptomatic” and felt “pretty normal for the two weeks” during his quarantine, and is “feeling healthy now.”Matthews participated in the team’s workouts on Monday and declared himself fit to play in Toronto’s play-in series against the Columbus Blue Jackets on Aug.

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Rick Zamperin: Coronavirus issues in MLS should serve as warning for NHL and NBA

coronavirus cases across the United States continues to explode, it should come as no surprise that the pandemic is wreaking havoc on the MLS is Back Tournament at Disney World in Florida.The NHL and NBA should be taking notes.Two Major League Soccer teams, FC Dallas and Nashville SC, have been forced to bow out of the days-old tournament due to a flurry of their players and coaches testing positive.Just minutes before Sunday’s 9 a.m. kickoff between Toronto FC and D.C.

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Rick Zamperin: If more big-name players opt out due to coronavirus, then what?

coronavirus pandemic?The National Hockey League and NHL Players’ Association announced Monday that they had finalized a return to play protocol and agreed to a four-year extension of their collective bargaining agreement that sets the stage for training camps to begin July 13 and a return to action in two hub cities on Aug. 1.The NHL, and every other league, has also made it abundantly clear that if their players want to press the eject button on 2020, they can do so.

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Rick Zamperin: Will team sports return during coronavirus pandemic?

coronavirus pandemic, where is everybody’s confidence level?I’m not sure anyone, no matter how ardent a sports fan you are, is 100 per cent confident that each league will be able to pull off its return-to-play plans without any hiccups.And I think that it’s also fair to say that having zero per cent confidence in any of North America’s professional sports leagues to complete their seasons is a bit too harsh, considering the amount of planning, preparation and testing that will be involved this summer.

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The New Reality: COVID-19’s impact on playing and watching sports

This is the 14th in a series of stories looking at the new reality of life during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Maritimes. You can find the full series here.One aspect of life impacted by COVID-19 has been sports, with many athletic competitions being put on hold or seasons cancelled due to the ongoing pandemic.The NHL, the NBA and MLB have all postponed their seasons, while the NFL has made no decision on delaying its season.

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Coronavirus: NBA announces July 30 start for rest of season, playoffs in August

NBA season when the Pelicans started the year at Toronto, but now the big-name rookie will be in position to be on centre stage at Disney when play resumes — against the team that was the first to find itself in the middle of the NBA’s coronavirus situation.New Orleans will be in the first game of the resumed NBA season on July 30, taking on Utah at the Disney World complex near Orlando, Florida in the opener of a doubleheader. And just as the initial first night of this season-like-none-other did, the second game of nationally televised twinbill will pit the Los Angeles Lakers against the Los Angeles Clippers.

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Toronto Raptors head to Florida to prepare for resumption of NBA season

Toronto Raptors have gone to Dunk City to prepare for the resumption of the NBA season.The defending champions were scheduled to charter Monday to Florida where they will train in the Fort Myers area. The club will continue its voluntary individual workouts at Alico Arena, home of the Florida Gulf Coast University Eagles.The school became known as Dunk City or Florida Dunk Coast in the 2013 NCAA tournament when the Cinderella Eagles became the first 15th seed to reach the Sweet 16, upsetting Georgetown and San Diego State along the way.

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Rick Zamperin: Returning to play during COVID-19 pandemic can be done

COVID-19 pandemic.The National Hockey League will reportedly select its two hub cities that will house the 24 playoff teams by June 22 and has earmarked July 10 for the start of training camps.But with the Canada-U.S. border closure to non-essential travel stretching into mid-to-late July, it is unlikely the NHL will be able to select Toronto, Edmonton or Vancouver (the only Canadian cities being considered) to become the other hub.

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Rick Zamperin: The MLS World Cup-style tournament sounds exciting, but…

COVID-19 pandemic.In large part, it’s because North America’s four major professional sports leagues (NFL, MLB, NBA and NHL) have been relatively silent — and for good reason — as the world deals with the health and economic fallout the novel coronavirus has brought.Thursday marks exactly three months since the National Basketball Association became the first league on our continent to announce that it was suspending its season due to the pandemic.

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Rick Zamperin: Sports stars continue to amplify Black Lives Matter message

demonstrations and calls to action to end systemic racism continue around the world following the tragic death of George Floyd, never before have the voices of today’s sports stars been more amplified than at the present time.Floyd’s death while in police custody in Minneapolis on May 25 has prompted a renewed, and deafening, outcry to end police brutality and racial inequality, and athletes are among those who are leading the charge.NBA icon LeBron James is one of the athletes who has been vocal about a need for action. So, too, has Toronto Raptors star Kyle Lowry.

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Why NBA stars will no longer "shut up and dribble" after the death of George Floyd

From the moment Jaylen Brown said “sport is a mechanism of control in America” back in 2018 he marked himself out as different.

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The New Reality: What will the future of sports look like?

The world of sports loves a comeback story. And now, every big-time sport you can think of is preparing to engineer its own resurrection.

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Roger Federer became the world’s best-paid athlete over the past year despite only generating around £5m of his earnings last year from actually playing tennis.

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Rick Zamperin: The NHL has its plan, but what will the NBA do?

Now that the National Hockey League has outlined how it plans to resume the truncated 2019-20 season during the COVID-19 pandemic, we are now waiting for the NBA to unveil its plans for when the world’s best basketball players return to the court.

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Kobe Bryant basketball Hall of Fame induction delayed because of coronavirus

Kobe Bryant's induction to the basketball Hall of Fame will have to wait a year after the coronavirus crisis delayed the ceremony.

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Kobe Bryant's NBA Hall of Fame induction faces delay due to coronavirus pandemic

LA Lakers legend Kobe Bryant's induction into the Basketball Hall of Fame might have to be delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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Rick Zamperin: Now that ‘The Last Dance’ is done, who should be next? Tom Brady apparently

You don’t have to be a fan of NBA legend Michael Jordan, or even a basketball aficionado, for that matter, to enjoy ESPN’s 10-part series The Last Dance, which profiles Jordan and his reign atop the league throughout the 1990s with the Chicago Bulls.

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Coronavirus: NBA in talks with Disney to resume season at site in Florida

The NBA is in talks with The Walt Disney Company on a single-site scenario for a resumption of play in Central Florida in late July, the clearest sign yet that the league believes the season can continue amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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