Tag: Courtney Kirkland

“We’re getting ready to go out finally …

“We’re getting ready to go out finally to the hallway, to do our prayer, go out for warmups, and Aaron Nelson sprints through the locker room to try to find David Griffin. And that’s when we found out Courtney Kirkland had reffed the Jazz game,” Redick said. “So, then we were having a conversation in the locker room like, you know, ‘I don’t think it’s safe to play.’ No one felt like it was safe to play. Had the NBA made us play, we would have hooped, but I know a lot of guys expressed concern that they didn’t feel like it was safe to go out and play. Not just for us, but for anyone — anyone that was in that arena that night.”

The Pelicans’ security personnel were …

The Pelicans’ security personnel were alerted, sources said, and they immediately began communicating that information to the team’s front office members, who were congregated elsewhere in the arena. Pelicans executives huddled up and grabbed their phones, quickly looking up recent Jazz box scores to confirm the information that had been relayed to them. And there it was: On Monday night, two days prior to this game, Courtney Kirkland had officiated the Toronto Raptors and Utah Jazz game in Salt Lake City.

NBA referee Courtney Kirkland’s …

NBA referee Courtney Kirkland’s coronavirus results came back negative, and doctors cleared him to leave Sacramento, a source confirmed to ESPN. Kirkland had been in Sacramento since Wednesday’s game between the Kings and Pelicans was postponed just minutes before tipoff because he also had been assigned to work a Jazz-Raptors game in Salt Lake City on Monday.

NBA referee Courtney Kirkland tests negative for coronavirus

After being in the center of the cancellation of the Pelicans-Kings game on Wednesday, referee Courtney Kirkland tested negative for coronavirus.

At the middle of the cancellation of Wednesday’s game between the New Orleans Pelicans and Sacramento Kings was referee Courtney Kirkland. As connections were quickly made between Rudy Gobert, who was the first player to test positive for the coronavirus, and those who had contact with him in recent weeks, Kirkland’s name came up as one of the referees in the Jazz-Raptors game on Monday.

While the game would be canceled and teams, players and coaches moved on, physically and mentally, from that night, Kirkland was left in isolation in Sacramento while undergoing a test for the coronavirus.

On Saturday, results of Kirkland’s test came back negative.

As it stands, the only players, officials or coaches who have tested positive for the coronavirus are Jazz teammates Gobert and Donovan Mitchell. Most recently, the Raptors released a statement that all members of the organization had tested positive for the virus.

The Pelicans have not undergone tests for the virus and only encouraged players to be tested if they experienced symptoms of the virus.