“We are learning about this disease,” Sikka told ESPN, speaking ahead of finger prick blood draws that will be conducted as team practice facilities continue to open more fully across the country.

We have learned a lot in two months. So if we can take the next two months, learn on the fly, mitigate risk, then we can move pretty quickly to do the right things to have safe play.

“I think teams are obligated to do something right for their communities before they do right for anybody else.”

Timberwolves star Karl-Anthony Towns’ mother, Jacqueline, died because of complications from COVID-19 on April 13 after being put in a medically induced coma and on a ventilator.

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