Because he remains a news junkie, Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr has read up on almost every angle on the spreading coronavirus.

This development struck him the most. The Brooklyn Nets announced Tuesday that four unnamed players had tested positive for COVID-19, and Kevin Durant confirmed to The Athletic that he was one of them. So Kerr thought back to the Warriors’ previously scheduled game against the Nets last Thursday at Chase Center in San Francisco.

"I'm hoping none of our players went and hung out with them the night before our game," Kerr said Tuesday on a conference call. "I don’t know if that is the case or not."

The Nets traveled to San Francisco on Wednesday night shortly before the NBA suspended the season after Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert tested positive for the coronavirus. Nets interim coach Jacque Vaughn initially expected Durant to travel for Thursday’s game against the Warriors, which at the time was scheduled behind closed doors. Instead, Durant stuck to his initial plans not to go. The Nets left San Francisco on Thursday morning.

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Despite those developments, the Warriors do not currently plan to seek medical tests for a simple reason.

"We’ve been told that testing’s in short supply," Warriors general manager Bob Myers said on the conference call. "We’re treating ourselves like people, which is what we are. We’re not better than anybody. We’re not worse. We’re just a basketball team, like any company. Right now, we’re not interacting with anybody. I’ve been told by our doctors that we shouldn’t be testing asymptomatic people in California."

That has left NBA teams handling this fluid outbreak in two ways.

If a player has been in close proximity to a player who has tested positive, those teams have sought medical tests. So when Gobert tested positive before last week’s game between the Jazz and Thunder, both teams received medical tests at Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City. Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell also tested positive, but all of the other members of the Jazz and Thunder came back with negative results. The Toronto Raptors, Detroit Pistons and Boston Celtics were also tested because they played the Jazz the previous week. Pistons forward Christian Wood also tested positive.

Otherwise, the Warriors represent one of several NBA teams that have refrained from testing. Since the elderly are most vulnerable to the virus and testing kits are limited, the Warriors and other NBA teams do not want to take a test at someone else’s expense.

"If any of our players do come down sick or any of our employees do, we’ll do our best to get them a test," Kerr said. "But there’s definitely frustration that we don’t all have access to them. But there’s nothing we can do about it."

Instead, the Warriors have simply maintained daily communication amid limited circumstances.

San Francisco has required people to stay at home except for essential needs. Unlike last week, the Warriors cannot have anyone at their facility, even for individual workouts. So Kerr and his family returned to their San Diego residence. Three unnamed players received permission to return home to be with family. Klay Thompson, who has remained sidelined all season with an injured right knee, will have to rehab with a team trainer at home.

"Every team’s responsibility is to check in with their players each day and staff members or anybody for that matter, even me, to report symptoms," Myers said. "So we’re doing that. But outside of that, we’re not mandating, nor do I think we should be at this time until testing becomes more available that everybody gets tested."

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