Hey, everyone. Welcome to today's episode of the Ringer NBA show. It's the answer. My name is Chris Ryan. I'm your host and we recorded this podcast on Thursday night following the Sixers game against the nets. I talked with Ben Dietrich about the state of NBA rivalries and a little bit later you'll hear.

I had with Kyle Mann about the state of NBA player rivalries throughout the league, but we recorded this podcast before we heard the news on Thursday night that Seth Curry had tested positive for COVID-19.

Curry was in attendance with the Sixers at this net's game. He apparently sat on the bench for the first quarter. He had been ruled out of the game with what was reported to be an ankle injury, but returned a positive coronavirus test during the game.

It was sent into isolation. This is obviously going to have a lot of ripple effects throughout the league in terms of what it means for the nets and what it means for the Sixers.

But the most important thing is that people stay healthy and we wish Seth a speedy recovery and we're thinking about everybody out there.

This is an incredibly difficult NBA season to manage from a logistical level, keeping everybody healthy, keeping everybody safe.

It's just it's unlike anything we've kind of dealt with before and this is this is one of those is going to really be a stress test for the league and a stress test for these teams.

And we hope everything works out okay. So let's get into this podcast anyway. We still talked about the game itself, which the Sixers lost and what it meant for the state of Eastern conference rivalries, whether the NBA still had rivalries.

We had a fun conversation about that, but we did want to shout out the developing news story that we had. So let's get into the show.

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