By Eurohoops team / info@eurohoops.net
Zion Williamson left Orlando on Thursday morning to attend to an urgent family medical matter, as the New Orleans Pelicans announced. As stated, Williamson plans to return to the team in Orlando for the NBA restart at a later date.
“We fully support Zion’s decision to leave the NBA campus to be with his family,” said Pelicans Executive Vice President of Basketball Operations David Griffin said in the team’s statement. “Out of respect for the Williamson family, we will have no further comment at this time.”
As ESPN’s Tim Bontemps further reports, according to the regulations, Williamson will quarantine for four days upon return to the NBA’s bubble if he has a negative test each day he’s outside the bubble if he’s gone for seven days or less, or each day for the final seven days he’s gone if longer than that. If he doesn’t, he will remain in quarantine for ten days.