Kevin Durant was pulled out of the game in the 3rd quarter due to contact tracing protocols, after the NBA allowed him to start the game after being pulled out of pregame warmups.
The way this was handled really makes the NBA look incompetent. The guy doesn't start the due to possible exposure earlier in the day due to someone testing positive, then he's allowed to enter the game, then in the third quarter he's pulled out of the game again for the same reasons?? I mean, WTF? By allowing him to enter the game he's already possibly infected other players on the court by the time he's pulled out of the game for good. Bad optics. They might as well have let him play & deal with the matter later. Very bad look for the NBA!
In other news Sam Bennett of the Calgary Flames has asked for a trade and several teams are interested, including Toronto and the Rangers. Calgary needs to win now and wants a player or players in return. The Rangers would dearly love to ship them DeAngelo, but he's like kryptonite right now for any other NHL team plus he'd have to go in quarantine for a couple of weeks if traded to a Canadian team. That's why a trade with any other American team may not be the best solution for the Flames. As for the Leafs they don't have the cap space to accomodate Bennett's contract and all their lower paid players (Thornton, Spezza, Vecci, Petan, etc) all have more points than Bennett has. As for the habs they are saying they have no interest in Bennett. But that could be a ploy since one thing Marc Bergevin has shown is that he's a shrewd negotiator and many of his trades in the past for lesser names have turned out very well for him & the habs.