Also, teams, like the rest of us, are learning more about COVID-19 each day.
As of now, no games have been canceled.
Teams are not expected to be perfect in their health care.
In many cases, people who infect others don’t know they are sick. Each day brings new restrictions, closures and shutdowns.
In that scenario your money would be refunded or you would be offered a credit since you would not be allowed in the arena. But it’s not going away.This is a concern heightened by a new report that COVID-19 is According to ESPN, the NBA views a “best-case” scenario of a return to action as occurring in Even assuming logistics are addressable, the games would be played with an ongoing risk that an ostensibly healthy player, coach or referee has COVID-19 and unknowingly spreads it to teammates, opponents, coaches, referees, not to mention his family and friends.
This ideal arrangement isn’t currently possible. Still, players could lose a significant amount of money—indeed, around a fifth of their wages this year could be lost (assuming the rest of the season were canceled).The NBA has 60 days from the event’s occurrence to notify the NBPA of invoking Article XXXIX. There is no collectively bargained testing policy for COVID-19. The league hopes the pandemic is under control by the summer and games could be played again by the end of June, most likely without live audiences.
By all accounts, the COVID-19 test is simple and painless. There are many reports of test kits being unavailable. As a separate hurdle, test results take a day or two. The tip was made on the promise of confidentiality. The efficacy of a potential vaccine is also unknown, especially if multiple strains of the virus emerge. What is expected of teams today will be less than what is expected in the future.Fourth, even if the first three reasons didn’t exist, few players would likely sue over contraction of COVID-19. I’ve received many questions about how the league, players and other stakeholders should navigate through this complex situation.
Of course, we’ll never know who tipped off the journalists. Throw in the league, the team doctor and the team trainer as defendants, too.
Don’t expect that to happen here. In the event of a qualifying cataclysmic event, the force majeure clause allows the NBA to terminate the CBA and reduce franchises’ contractual obligations to players. It is a concern that will be present in June as well as in the fall and next spring. As an epidemic, COVID-19 does not have a “date” The NBA could take on some risk in terminating the CBA. The results of those tests would need to be made available not long thereafter. HIPAA is a federal law that imposes a bevy of requirements on holders of medical records.
Don’t expect that to change due to COVID-19.The ongoing coronavirus pandemic raises a number of legal and business issues for the NBA and the NBPA.© 2020 ABG-SI LLC. First, these recommendations follow advice shared by infectious disease experts.
The same is true of a pick-up game or team practice, which the NBA has also With those points in mind, what would happen if the league resumed play and then a player, coach or referee were to test positive for COVID-19? In 2002, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHS)—the federal agency that enforces HIPAA—issued an opinion expressing that HIPAA likely does not contemplate pro sports teams and their employees as “covered entities.” Lastly, the player himself, his teammates or his agent may have shared the test information with his consent.
To state the obvious, an NBA game can’t be played with social distancing measures.
Alternatively, a team official might have leaked the information. But for several reasons the case would almost certainly fail.