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The National Basketball Association (NBA) is again looking for innovation. American sports whale ESPN announces that beginning January 7, the league plans to place sensors on players and many team members to accompany them during team activities outside of the event.
According to a separate league memo received by ESPN, the sensors will record the distance and duration of contact with the person. This, the NBA believes, will help track contacts in cases of positive coronavirus.
It is announced that the trial period of the program will begin on December 23 and is expected to be implemented on January 7.
If this change goes into effect, players, coaches and club staff would have to wear Kinexon SafeZone contact sensors in places like the team plane, bus, training base and on the way home from work.
If players do not use sensors, they will be penalized, but the penalty has not yet been specified.
It is announced that basketball players will not be required to use the device during a game or in a hotel.
To maintain the privacy of the players, the health officials emphasized that the sensors do not detect the GPS location and will only activate when the other person comes up to 6 feet away.
A health official, familiar with the situation, said the sensors should help identify which players or staff may need quarantine.
“We don’t want to unnecessarily quarantine someone who doesn’t need it,” said an official anonymously.
These efforts are a collaboration between the NBA, the players union, and medical officials, and the officials involved believe it should help prevent the spread of the virus in an instant.
“We hope that it can also be used not only in certain cases, but also to actively try to cut contacts before the fact,” said David Weiss, NBA senior vice president.
It is speculated that this new way of protecting players from the coronavirus may have loopholes and may not be fully implemented. However, one of the specialists assures that basketball players will not have to wear sensors in their free time.
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