"Probably, there will be people from each team who will test positive. And they want us to start a league. They are hallucinating ." Malcolm Delaney never kept quiet.

The American base, with whom Barcelona propped up a glittering squad last summer and with which he still intends to conquer the Euroleague this season, will not play with the Barça club again. The entity and the player have reached an agreement - "mutual", specifies the athlete - to terminate his contract, which concluded on June 30 . Delaney, who lived alone in Barcelona and had gone to Atlanta a week after the State of Alert was decreed to be reunited with his family, had doubts about returning to Spain in the face of an as yet unresolved crisis like that of the coronavirus.

The point of no return came after the Government decreed, via ministerial order published in the Official State Gazette, a 14-day quarantine for all travelers entering Spain from this Friday . A measure to apply throughout the Alarm State. Delaney had not yet returned to Barcelona to start training with his teammates, which began this week after the players underwent tests for the detection of the coronavirus.

Sanitary conditions

Beyond the problems that the mandatory quarantine could entail in the face of the hypothetical dispute between both the ACB and the Euroleague next June, the base understood that sufficient sanitary conditions had not yet been met .

"Basketball is a fun game. A fun business , " Delaney wrote a few days ago on his Twitter account, where he himself has always been in charge of offering his version of events and even responding to fans who asked about his return. "I am not a bad partner," he insisted.

If the tournaments are resumed in the competition, Barcelona will find a great hole in the base position . Thomas Heurtel, after overcoming a ruptured patellar tendon in his left knee that had kept him out until January 25, again injured himself, this time in the ankle, before the Copa del Rey in February. He's already recovered. While Canadian Kevin Pangos has not played this season because of a broken foot.

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