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It’s the cornerstone of the league’s Orlando restart plan and it can get underway — NBA teams can begin coronavirus testing of asymptomatic players and staff at their facilities.

This was long expected and the league sent a memo to teams clearing the way for it, reports Shams Charania of The Athletic.

The NBA has informed teams that they are now able to conduct coronavirus testing of asymptomatic players/staff given increase in testing and revised CDC guidelines, sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) June 14, 2020

The league got a black eye back in March when every Brooklyn Net — including asymptomatic players — were tested while there was a severe shortage of tests both in New York and around the nation (at that point people with symptoms could not get tested. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver had said from the start the league would not go forward with this plan unless there were enough tests available that they were not taking tests away from places they were needed.

While experts would argue we as a nation should be doing more testing, there are now tests widely available.

Once players start arriving in Orlando on July 7 they will be tested daily. The idea is that if a player gets the disease, even with the risk of false negatives with tests, they will find any ill player quickly enough to quarantine him and limit the spread. Silver has said games will not stop due to one positive test and teams have to be ready for that; the league is on a tight timeline with its schedule and will not stop.

The NBA coronavirus testing is expected to be an oral swab, not the painful deep nasal swab that nobody would want to be done daily for three months. With that, the league is backing a Yale study on saliva-based testing, reports Charania.

Sources: The NBA is seeking to fund a Yale School of Public Health study that will support validation of saliva-based coronavirus test and could further availability of cost-effective/noninvasive/rapid test to the general population. https://t.co/XwUbsOeETk

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) June 14, 2020

Players will test positive, it’s inevitable. The league is betting its restart on the fact it can stop the spread of the virus in its bubble with all this testing. A lot is riding on the league winning that bet.

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