Between the four players in quarantine, two self-isolating and one hurt, that leaves nine eligible to play at this time - one more than the NBA minimum. Houston has 16 players on its current roster. The league has not revealed the names of any of the players who have returned the 59 positive tests since the week before training camps started 48 of those positive tests came back in the week prior to camps opening. 16, there were two new confirmed player positive tests. The league announced Thursday that of the 558 players tested for COVID-19 in the week starting Dec. Chris Clemons has also been lost for the season because of an Achilles injury suffered in the preseason. are not with the Rockets on the trip and are self-isolating, the team said. Harden being ineligible to play meant the Rockets did not have the eight available players needed to start a game, so what was to have been their opener on Wednesday against Oklahoma City was postponed.īen McLemore and Kenyon Martin Jr. That rule is part of the long list of protocols put into place for this season. He was also fined $50,000 for attending an event that the league said broke the rule prohibiting players from “attending indoor social gatherings of 15 or more people or entering bars, lounges, clubs or similar establishments.” The NBA said earlier in the week that Harden would serve a four-day quarantine, which ended Friday, for violating the league’s virus protocols. Harden, the three-time defending NBA scoring champion who has been prominently mentioned in trade talks in recent weeks, is not on the team’s injury report.
That means they would be cleared to return when Houston plays at home against Sacramento this coming Thursday. Those four players, if they return negative tests, will see seven-day quarantines end Wednesday. They will be without John Wall, DeMarcus Cousins, Eric Gordon and Mason Jones for those games, all listed as out by the Rockets with “health and safety protocols” as the reason.
The Rockets play their opener in Portland on Saturday and visit Denver on Monday. Because of the missing gameplay feature, these players can't continue their leveling up journey, and it doesn't appear that Pokemon Go will grant them a pass like when several well-known YouTubers were granted "free" level ups during their race to Level 50 after a glitch accidentally erased a day's worth of progress.The Houston Rockets are preparing to have only nine available players, James Harden among them, for their first two games of the season because of ongoing quarantine issues related to the coronavirus pandemic. Players attempting to reach Level 50 need to defeat a Team Go Rocket leader 3 times using only Pokemon with a CP of 2,500 or lower. Players attempting to reach Level 46 first need to defeat 100 Team Go Rocket Grunts and defeat a Team Go Rocket Leader 50 times.
Niantic has responded to complaints about the missing feature by noting that they were continuing to investigate the issues, but have otherwise provided no timeline on when Team Go Rocket will make their return.Īlthough the lack of Team Go Rocket encounters isn't necessary a gamebreaker for Pokemon Go, there are a subset of players who have every right to be frustrated about the general lack of communication over the missing gameplay feature. Of course, when he admits that Hizbullah has destroyed half of Beirut, he cannot possibly be referring to the devastating Beirut port explosion, which he blames on Israel. The official account declined to provide any additional details, but Pokemon Go's "Known Issues" page provided some additional context - Team Go Rocket encounters would occasionally cause the game to freeze and become unresponsive. Anti-Israel Doucheblogger TM Richard Silverstein has come out and admit that he has no problem with Hizbullah firing rockets at Israeli civilians. However, 10 days ago, Niantic made a late-night announcement on its "Niantic Help" Twitter account that it was suspending Team Go Rocket encounters while investigating errors associated with the gameplay feature.