For the second time in just over a week, the Brooklyn Nets will need to play without Kevin Durant. However, last time Durant did not play, he was resting his surgically repaired right Achilles rather than face the Memphis Grizzlies on Brooklyn’s second day of a back-to-back.
Durant will miss Tuesday’s game against the Utah Jazz at Barclays Center in accordance with the league’s health and safety protocols. The protocols were instituted by the league to outlines how teams should COVID-19 matters throughout the 2020-21 NBA season.
Durant was among the multiple Nets players who contracted the illness when the season first went on pause. The Nets have made no announcement about whether or not the star forward has contracted the virus again.
However, Shams Charania of The Athletic is reporting Durant is “expected to required seven days of quarantine before returning to action due to contact tracing/exposure to COVID-19.”
If Durant’s quarantine starts Monday and he is cleared by the end of it, he will miss four games.
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