The NBA has postponed the next three games of San Antonio Spurs after four players in the team tested positive for COVID-19, the league announced Tuesday.
The Charlotte Hornets, who played the Spurs on Sunday, are undergoing contact detection and will postpone their next two games, the NBA said.
The Spurs have been quarantined since Sunday’s game in Charlotte, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
San Antonio’s affected games were on Wednesday in the Cleveland Cavaliers, Saturday in the New York Knicks and next Monday in the Indiana Pacers.
San Antonio’s next possible game is Feb. 24 in the Oklahoma City Thunder, which means the Spurs will have more than a week between games – they will join the Washington Wizards and Memphis Grizzlies as teams to endure this situation.
The Hornets games affected were Wednesday against the Chicago Bulls and Friday against the Denver Nuggets.
Charlotte’s next possible game is now Saturday at home against the Golden State Warriors, which would be Stephen Curry’s annual return to North Carolina, where he grew up.
The postponement announced Tuesday pushed the number of games postponed this season due to positive tests or contact detection issues to 29, including the Spurs game in Detroit Pistons that was to be played Tuesday night. The NBA canceled that game on Monday.
The NBA did not reveal which players tested positive, but the announcement of the latest postponement said that the Spurs had positive tests among players – and also did not name coaches. Spurs coach Gregg Popovich announced on his 72nd birthday last month that he had received the vaccine that protects the effects of COVID-19.
The Spurs were Quinndary Weatherspoon without waiting for their game Sunday against Charlotte due to the league’s COVID-19 protocols. Weatherspoon played ten minutes against the Falcons in Atlanta on Friday and were named by the Protocols at the weekend.
To be excluded due to the protocols may suggest any number of things, including a positive test, a suspected positive test, or contact tracing data showing that a player has been exposed to a person with COVID-19.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.