Zero positive cases recorded in the NBA before the restart

NEW YORK: Of the 342 players tested for COVID-19 on the NBA campus since test results were last announced on August 5, zero have returned confirmed positive tests. The 2020 NBA Playoffs are slated to begin on August 17.

In the event that a player on the NBA campus returns a confirmed positive test in the future, he will be isolated until he is cleared for leaving isolation under the rules established by the NBA and the Players Association, said NBA in a statement.

Meanwhile, on Wednesday, Life Prep Academy announced the signing of Ann Mary Zachariah and Siya Deodhar.

Zachariah, a 6-2 forward and Deodhar, a 5-7 point guard, will join this high school basketball program based in Wichita, Kansas. Both Zachariah and Deodhar have been part of all the three NBA Academy Women's Program (May 2018, January 2019 and October 2019) organised in India and the Basketball Without Borders Asia Camp 2018 in Delhi NCR. IANSWorld Athletics announced in late July that it would expel RusAF if it does not make the outstanding payments of a $5 million fine and $1.31 million in costs for breaching anti-doping rules before August 15.

The RusAF was fined $10 million in March, with half of that sum suspended. It has already missed the first deadline to pay on July 1, and then the World Athletics governing body decided to put on hold the process of granting Authorised Neutral Athlete (ANA) status for Russian athletes who want to compete internationally.

The Russian athletics has been suspended since 2015, and its athletes missed the 2016 Rio Olympics. IANS 

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