By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
Lakers guard Rajon Rondo NBA’s COVID-19 health and safety protocols, as the club announced. He is the fourth player of the team which will be missing in the upcoming games of the Lakers due to COVID.
Austin Reaves, Kent Bazemore and Trevor Ariza are the other three players, while head coach Frank Vogel also remains in health and safety protocols.
Meanwhile, Chicago Bulls guard Lonzo Ball became the team’s third player to enter the NBA’s COVID-19 health and safety protocols on Sunday, joining forward Alfonzo McKinnie and center Tony Bradley as players sidelined ahead of the Bulls‘ matchup against the Indiana Pacers.
Chicago will also be without coach Billy Donovan, who landed in the protocols on Friday.
The Bulls have had 14 players enter health and safety protocols in December, although Devon Dotson tested out two days later with a pair of negative COVID-19 tests. Nikola Vucevic also landed in the protocols in early November.
In Atlanta, forwards John Collins and Jalen Johnson have entered the league’s COVID-19 health and safety protocols, per ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
And last but not least, in Miami Kyle Lowry is missing due to the league’s COVID-19 health and safety protocols, as the club announced.