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Report: Two Lakers Players Test Positive for COVID-19

In the wake of the report that four Nets players had tested positive for COVID-19, the Lakers announced they would be moving into the next phase of their exposure protocol. The Nets last opponent before the NBA suspended games was the Lakers, last Tuesday, March 8th.

This triggered the Lakers opening up testing for the virus to their own players, which took place on Wednesday morning (March 16th). The results of those tests have come back and two Lakers players have tested positive for the virus:

As Shams reports, it looks like all of the Lakers players did not test Wednesday, but that is expected to change after this latest news.