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NBA: Celtics guard Smart 'corona-free', 10 days after positive test

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Agence France-Presse

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2020/reuters/03/30/20200307-marcus-smart.jpg"/><figcaption>Boston Celtics guard Marcus Smart (36) shoots the ball over Utah Jazz guard Mike Conley (10) during the first half at TD Garden. <em>Bob DeChiara, USA TODAY Sports/Reuters</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>LOS ANGELES -- Boston Celtics guard Marcus Smart, who tested positive for the new coronavirus 10 days ago, has been cleared by American health officials, he announced Sunday on Twitter.</p><p>&quot;Corona Free as of two days ago. Cleared by Mass (Massachusetts) Dept of Health,&quot; Smart wrote on social media. &quot;Thanks for everyone&#x27;s thoughts and prayers and I&#x27;m doing the same for everyone that&#x27;s been effected by this. Stay safe and stay together- apart! Much love!&quot;</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Corona Free as of two days ago. Cleared by Mass Dept of Health.<br/>Thanks for everyone’s thoughts and prayers and I’m doing the same for everyone that’s been effected by this. Stay safe and stay together- apart!<br/>Much love!</p>— marcus smart (@smart_MS3) <a href="https://twitter.com/smart_MS3/status/1244434658529619968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 30, 2020</a></blockquote><div><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script></div><p>So far at least 14 NBA team members have tested positive for COVID-19, including the Brooklyn Nets&#x27; Kevin Durant and Utah Jazz&#x27;s Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell. </p><p>He joins France&#x27;s Gobert and Mitchell and Detroit Piston&#x27;s Christian Wood with all-clears after coming down with the illness.</p><p>Earlier this month, league commissioner Adam Silver said NBA players should be considered &quot;super spreaders&quot; of the disease. Silver&#x27;s comments followed criticism that wealthy athletes were getting tested ahead of critically ill patients in American hospitals.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://sports.abs-cbn.com/boxing/news/2020/03/30/virus-forces-cancellation-boxing-hof-induction-ceremony-67349">READ: Virus forces cancellation of Boxing HOF induction ceremony</a></li></ul><p>Smart said he was tested March 14 and got the results five days later.</p><p>He added that he had no symptoms and felt good enough to play an NBA game if he had to.</p><p>In 53 games in 2019-20 season, Smart was averaging 4.8 assists and 3.8 rebounds per game. Smart is a first-round pick of the Celtics in the 2014 NBA draft.</p><p>As of Sunday night, more than 142,000 Americans have been diagnosed with the new coronavirus with 2,490 fatalities, according to Johns Hopkins University.</p><div><strong>© Agence France-Presse</strong></div><p>(For more sports coverage, visit the <a href="http://sports.abs-cbn.com/"><b>ABS-CBN Sports website</b></a>).</p>

<p>Boston Celtics guard Marcus Smart, who tested positive for the new coronavirus 10 days ago, has been cleared by American health officials, he announced Sunday on Twitter.<br /> </p>

Boston Celtics guard Marcus Smart, who tested positive for the new coronavirus 10 days ago, has been cleared by American health officials, he announced Sunday on Twitter.