Basketball

With Bradley Beal ready to ‘fight,’ NBA postpones Wizards-Bucks game Friday


The NBA has postponed a sixth consecutive Wizards game, the league announced Wednesday evening, after Bradley Beal said he and Russell Westbrook would talk to NBPA executive director Michele Roberts about the status of Friday’s game against the Bucks.

The Wizards returned to basketball activities late Wednesday after a week and a half of COVID-19 spreading through their roster. The practice meant their first court time since a win over the Suns on Jan. 11. Six players remain in the league’s health and safety protocols and had already been ruled out for Friday in Milwaukee before official word of postponing that game came in. Two more, Westbrook and Thomas Bryant, are out with injuries, meaning Washington is at the minimum of eight available players, which has usually meant the show will go on. This time, as the NBA tries to play through a pandemic, it does not.

The league said it chose to postpone the game because of “the number of unavailable…





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