This is a pretty good breakdown from Windy.
I think most of us would have assumed it anyway, but if you wanted to know specific numbers Windhorst got you covered.
Florida and Texas are basically fully open, so the players could go party without being bothered too much, but here is how they are being tracked. Windhorst was on the Hoop Collective podcast when he said this.
“Last I heard, there were around 150 players who were planning to be in Miami this past weekend. The reason the NBA knows is because the players have to have COVID tests while they’re there, and they had to sign up for them,” Windhorst said. “So the NBA had an accurate count of how many, and I was told — this was two days ago, maybe it’s grown — I was told in the neighborhood of 150 players in Miami over the weekend.”
“They had to give the players a schedule. It was drive-through, and they had to have multiple lanes, and they had to give the players a schedule,” he added regarding the process of getting COVID tests; otherwise, they couldn’t handle the crush.
“I was checking the private jet flights out of Atlanta late Sunday night, and there was quite a few headed to L.A. because that’s where a lot of players go,” he said before noting there was a flight to Milwaukee, a flight to Columbus, Ohio, multiple flights to New York, one to Dallas, and one to Phoenix.
We will have to see if this leads to a new outbreak when the season starts back up.
The point is that no one is going to stop NBA players from hitting the strip clubs.
Word to Harden.
Flip the pages for Windhorst’s full interview.