Here Are The Games That The NBA Has Postponed

The NBA has announced the postponing of Sunday's games between the Denver Nuggets and Brooklyn Nets, Cleveland Cavaliers and Atlanta Hawks and New Orleans Pelicans and Philadelphia 76ers. They have also postponed Monday's game between the Orlando Magic and Toronto Raptors and Tuesday's game between the Washington Wizards and Brooklyn Nets.

The NBA has announced that several upcoming games have been postponed.  

The announcement from the league can be seen in a tweet that has been embedded below from the Twitter account of NBA Communications.  

The NBA has announced the following: pic.twitter.com/rnNhuq0hc1

— NBA Communications (@NBAPR) December 19, 2021

Sunday's games that were postponed were between the Denver Nuggets and Brooklyn Nets, Cleveland Cavaliers and Atlanta Hawks and New Orleans Pelicans and Philadelphia 76ers. 

They also postponed Monday's game between the Orlando Magic and Toronto Raptors and Tuesday's game between he Washington Wizards and Brooklyn Nets. 

There has been a large outbreak of players entering health and safety protocols. 

For instance, the Nets had ten players in health and safety protocols as of Saturday night (see tweet below from ESPN's Tim Bontemps).  

The Nets now have 10 players in the protocols, including Kevin Durant, James Harden and Kyrie Irving. Nic Claxton is also sitting out tonight with wrist soreness. That’s 11 players who won’t be available tonight against Orlando.

— Tim Bontemps (@TimBontemps) December 18, 2021

There were still many games on Sunday night that went on as planned. 

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