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New Orleans Pelicans star Zion Williamson left the NBA campus in Orlando, Florida to attend to a personal matter.
The Pelicans announced that Williamson had to attend to “an urgent family medical matter” and will join the team at a later date:
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According to NBA health and safety protocols established for the Orlando campus, players may leave due to illness or family emergency without penalty if they receive prior approval from the NBA.
Richaun Holmes of the Sacramento Kings and Bruno Caboclo of the Houston Rockets were quarantined earlier this week because they accidentally violated league protocols.
According to ESPN’s Tim Bontemps, anyone who leaves the campus with NBA approval will be quarantined for four days upon return under any of the following conditions: Less than seven days have passed and they test negative for COVID-19 each day. who leave, or have a long absence, undergo daily tests and are negative for at least seven days before they return.
Pelicans executive vice president David Griffin did not specify when Williamson would return to the team.
New Orleans (28-36) is 3.5 games behind the Memphis Grizzlies for No. 8 in the Western Conference. The Pelicans’ first game in the season restart will be July 30 at 6:30 pm ET against the Utah Jazz.
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