Billy Donovan appeared bowled over by the query.
“It’s powerful,” he mentioned Tuesday, the Bulls coach treading calmly when he ought to have been making ready for the Boston Celtics.
Donovan rakes in a $6 million annual wage, so asking him if what the NBA is doing, shoehorning this season amid a pandemic, is value it required qualification. Not monetarily, however from a well being and security standpoint — is all of it value it?
“I feel lots of people would have a look at what you’re speaking about, and you possibly can return and forth on it,” he mentioned.
Only three weeks into the season, COVID-19 issues have caught as much as the NBA. Through Sunday, greater than two dozen gamers have been in quarantine as a part of the league’s well being and security protocols. Nearly one-third of the league’s 30 groups had at the least one participant take a look at constructive for COVID-19. Six contests have been postponed, together with Tuesday’s Bulls-Celtics matchup and two video games…
