Another loss for Barça. The club announced this morning that Kyle kuric has tested positive for Covid-19. The bodyguard is isolated at his home, although, yes, with mild symptoms. It is the third contagion in the Barça team after those of Nigel Hayes and Pierre Oriola, although Hayes is already available to Saras.
The Lithuanian coach has five safe casualties for Thursday’s Euroleague game on the Baskonia court between infected and injured, plus the doubt of Sergi Martínez, with a sprained ankle. Álex Abrines, Cory Higgins and Nick Calathes they continue to recover from their injuries while Oriola’s positive, detected Thursday, is recent. Sergi will travel with the team in principle but his contest is more doubtful.
The azulgrana club practices antigen tests practically daily. Kuric, when testing positive on Sunday 26, was subjected to a PCR test that confirmed the contagion yesterday. At Barça they pray that there are no more cases, because right now it only has seven players 100% of the first team available, not counting Sergi Martínez and not including Rokas Jokubaitis, who has a branch file: Mirotic, Sanli, Davies, Smits, Exum, Hayes and Laprovittola.
The Euroleague indicates that the minimum number of players to compete is eight and the CBA of nine, by expanding the limit from eight to nine yesterday. Even so, Barça is not interested in postponing matches to avoid saturation of the calendar, since it already has two pending meetings ACB: Manresa at the Palau, scheduled for January 4, and Andorra, which should have been played today and no date yet.
Oriola, without symptoms, would have to go to the match against the Bages team. Given the shortage of troops, Jasikevicius will return to pull the subsidiary against Baskonia as usual in recent times. Apart from Michael Caicedo, escort, will reconvene the base Agustin Ubal and possibly the pivot James Nnaji.
One of the biggest problems for the clubs that play ACB and Euroleague is the disparity in Covid protocols. Although the minimum number of troops available to compete is similar, the quarantine period is much longer in the maximum continental competition: 14 days compared to 10 in the domestic championship.
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