The NBA forced

Kevin Durant

to leave the game against the Raptors in application of its protocol against Covid-19, which generated enormous indignation among the player and his teammates.

During the past 24 hours, the forward had tested negative on three tests, but on Friday he was in contact with a person with an inconclusive test result.

At first, Durant dropped the Nets call-up, though he was later allowed to play.

With 4:13 left in the first quarter, with his team trailing 17-26, the former Warriors player took to the court to replace

James Harden

.

However, Durant's joy did not last long.

After adding eight points and six rebounds in 19 minutes on the court, he had to leave the game.

With 9:06 left in the third quarter, with the Nets ahead (70-68), he was relieved by

Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot

.

Since then,

Steve Nash's team

missed his success and ended up losing to the Raptors (117-123).

"By excess of caution"

After a brief stint on the bench, the 2014 MVP had to go to the locker room with an annoyed face, throwing a bottle of water against the parquet of the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

"During the game a positive result was received from the person Durant had interacted with this afternoon," the NBA explained.

"By excess of precaution he was withdrawn from the game. A trace has been launched to determine if he was in close contact with that person of the positive," added the league statement.

Minutes later, Durant expressed his discomfort through Twitter.

"Free me," he wrote on the social network, with an anger shared by his colleagues.

"It's frustrating, especially when we follow protocol and get tested on a daily basis," Harden stressed.

"I don't understand. He couldn't play and then he came back on the court. The game should have been postponed. He was with all of us," added the former Rockets guard.

Go down against the Sixers

"It's tough losing Durant twice in one night," admitted Nash.

"But we have to adapt. This is the type of season that will be," concluded the coach, hurt by the loss to a direct rival in the Eastern Conference.

As reported by ESPN, the NBA will try to determine from now on the time and degree of proximity that Durant had with the infected person to determine his period of absence from the tracks, but for the moment he will not travel to Philadelphia for the duel of the Saturday against the Sixers.

Durant, who already tested positive for this virus last March, already missed four games a month ago due to another similar scan.

After a year and a half of absence due to injury, in his 18 games of the course he averages 29.5 points, 7.4 rebounds and 5.2 assists.

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