Kevin Durant faces 7-day quarantine due to exposure to COVID-19

NEW YORK – After being exposed to someone who tested positive for COVID-19, Brooklyn Nets star Kevin Durant is facing a week-long quarantine as part of the league’s health and safety protocols, sources told ESPN.

Durant, who had COVID-19 in May, continued to register antibodies to the coronavirus, the sources said. As of Monday afternoon, Durant had tested negative for coronavirus three times, the sources said.

According to the Center for Disease Control, antibodies are “proteins that help fight infections and can provide protection against the onset of the disease again”. Scientists are still unsure of the degree of immunity that antibodies provide against infection again. The NBA’s COVID-19 protocols make no distinction between players who have antibodies and those who don’t.

In the week Durant must lose, Brooklyn will play in Utah, Philadelphia, Memphis and Oklahoma City.

Durant, who missed the entire 2019-20 season to recover from an Achilles tendon injury, started in all six Nets games this year. He averages 28.2 points, 7 rebounds and 4.8 assists per game in 34 minutes of playing time.