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Grant's Rant: 1-26-21 The NBA's good effort for COVID protocol is failing.

IF YOU DON'T LIKE THAT WITH GRANT NAPEAR

Grant Napear

Basketball, Football, Sports

4.7944 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2021

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Give the NBA credit for trying.  But the COVID protocols have now caused 21 games to be postponed.  So it's a great effort but good enough. I'm going to say it.  I told you so.  This was inevitable.  How are you going to make those games up in the season?  What's going to happen with baseball?  That's an even bigger disaster waiting happen.  Let's hope not.  Let's talk about it for minute today.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Well tomorrow, the Memphis Grizzlies were supposed to play the Chicago Bulls.

0:36.0

It is the 21st post-ponement of NBA games and the season is just about a month old.

0:45.4

The season began on December 22nd.

0:48.8

All right, it's January 26th, 21 games.

0:52.3

Washington has had six games postponed. Memphis has had six games

0:56.0

postponed. So my question to the NBA, and I've been talking about this for a long time because

0:59.9

I said there's no way in the world they're going to be able to pull this off.

1:03.0

Now I don't know what the definition of pulling this off is when it comes to having a complete season.

1:08.0

But here we are, all right, basically five weeks into the NBA season and we've had 21 postpoments and if you look at

1:16.4

COVID around the country the numbers are not declining the numbers continue to escalate

1:22.3

and it still is a big-time issue in this country.

1:27.0

And if you believe that the athletes are not going to quote-unquote cut the line to get vaccinated then there are still

1:36.1

going to be a lot of COVID outbreaks in the NBA. So my question is how the

1:41.3

hell are you going to make up all of these games?

1:43.7

All right? They only did the first half of the schedule.

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