New signing Danuel House is on the team’s flight to Toronto, and with the numerous entries on the Jazz’s injury report, is expected to play a significant role in the game. Meanwhile, Royce O’Neale (right patellar tendonitis), Hassan Whiteside (concussion protocol), Jordan Clarkson (lower back tightness), and Rudy Gay (right heel injury recovery) are listed as questionable for the game. While all have official injury statuses, it probably isn’t a coincidence that they’ll all skip this game in particular - in doing so, they’ll avoid the possibility of having to quarantine in Canada if they, too, receive a positive test.
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Mike Conley is sitting for the game, as he frequently does on one end of the back to back, due to his knee injury.Īll five of the players who are officially out for the game didn’t board the team’s flight to Canada, instead, they’ll meet the team in Indiana for their next game Saturday. The duo are part of a lengthy Jazz injury report that will see the team’s best players miss Friday’s game.ĭonovan Mitchell is out due to a lower back strain that has caused him reduced movement in recent days, while Bojan Bogdanovic is out due to a left middle finger sprain after scoring 36 points against Denver. They were the last team without a positive test. Until this week, the Jazz had escaped having a player test positive for the virus this season, until Joe Ingles was first on Tuesday.
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Overall, 35 NBA players are currently in the NBA’s COVID health and safety protocols. While the Raptors have reduced fan capacity at ScotiaBank Arena to just 1,000 fans as the omicron variant has spread in Canada, the game on Saturday in Indiana has no such restrictions. Now, the Jazz are still anticipated to play against the Toronto Raptors on Friday, provided that they have the league minimum eight players available. The team, staff, and those reporters immediately flew home from Oklahoma City on a charter flight, and all were asked to quarantine for 14 days after Gobert’s exposure.
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In March of 2020, Gobert’s illness caused panic: a moment in which Gobert touched the microphones of Jazz reporters days earlier went viral. But Gobert’s second test was reflective of how much things have changed, even as the virus has remained.