
A slew of recent postponements, including the Hawks-Suns game Wednesday night in Phoenix, shines a light on the difficulty of playing NBA games outside a bubble. The postponement is the seventh in the league because of COVID-19 since the season began in late December. The Suns, who do not have the required eight players to play a game, recently played the Wizards, who have some players in COVID-19 health-and-safety protocols. Contact tracing is the reason the Hawks were given for the postponement. The Wizards’ game against the Jazz on Wednesday also was postponed. The league structured this se…