The New Zealand Breakers are pushing for their NBL season opener next weekend to be postponed due to the Covid-19 cases within the team’s wider group.
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Chief executive and owner Matt Walsh confirmed on Sunday he, his young son, head coach Dan Shamir and general manager Simon Edwards were among the nine cases within the Melbourne-based team’s bubble.
Walsh said Shamir had been “dealing with it pretty bad for a week or so”.
Two unnamed starters were the only two players among the group of positive cases, which Walsh said had ranged from mild through to one unnamed person who went to hospital for “observation”.
The Breakers opening game was scheduled to be against the South-East Melbourne Phoenix next Saturday in Melbourne.
But Walsh said if that game went ahead, it was “very unlikely” Shamir would be involved and added they would “probably” be without the two starting players impacted.
While he was optimistic the spread within the team “had calmed”, Walsh said “in a perfect world” the game would be postponed and their season opening fixture would be pushed back until December 10.
He said he would be talking further to the NBL on Monday about the possibility of postponing next Saturday’s game.
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