{"id":15392,"date":"2020-06-25T15:04:48","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T10:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=15392"},"modified":"2020-06-25T15:04:48","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T10:04:48","slug":"jump-in-coronavirus-cases-jolts-nba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/15392","title":{"rendered":"Jump in coronavirus cases jolts NBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANKARA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>News of multiple COVID-19 cases in the Sacramento Kings are jolting the NBA, but the US basketball league is still set to\u00a0return next month.<\/p>\n<div id=\"icerikDiv_43139345\">\n<p>The Kings\u2019 Buddy Hield,\u00a0 Alex Len and Jabari Parker have all tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus, according to league.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kings guard Buddy Hield has tested positive for coronavirus, sources tell me and Sam Amick,&#8221; sports reporter Shams Charania wrote\u00a0Thursday on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sacramento Kings players Alex Len and Jabari Parker confirmed Wednesday that each had tested positive for the novel coronavirus,&#8221; the NBA said on its website.<\/p>\n<p>Hield, 27, averaged 19.8 points, 4.8 rebounds, and 3.1 assists this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Kings&#8217;\u00a025-year-old power forward Parker clocked up\u00a014.7 points and\u00a05.9 rebounds per match.<\/p>\n<p>Len is a center for the California team, averaging\u00a08.3 points and\u00a06 rebounds in the 2019-20 season.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA is set to return with a 22-team format at Walt Disney World Resort near Orlando, Florida, with a tentative start date of July 31.<\/p>\n<p>But the league is still wrestling with the virus, which has killed more people in the United States than any other country, and a surge in case numbers not seen since April, including in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Nikola Jokic of the Denver Nuggets also tested positive for the virus in his home country Serbia on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Malcolm Brogdon, who plays guard for the Indiana Pacers, confirmed he had also contracted the virus.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA News of multiple COVID-19 cases in the Sacramento Kings are jolting the NBA, but the US basketball league is still set to\u00a0return next month. The Kings\u2019 Buddy Hield,\u00a0 Alex Len and Jabari Parker have all tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus, according to league. &#8220;Kings guard Buddy Hield has tested positive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15394,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15392\/revisions\/15394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}