Sports world in shock as NBA suspends its season after Rudy Gobert tests positive for coronavirus – By Jack Baer (Yahoo Sports) / March 11 2020
The global threat of coronavirus got a lot more real for the sports world on Wednesday when Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert tested positive for COVID-19, which subsequently led to the NBA suspending its entire season.
© Provided by Yahoo! Sports One positive test, and the entire NBA slams the brakes. (Photo by Gene Sweeney Jr./Getty Images)
The move is unprecedented, and also warranted as the highly infectious disease keeps spreading and threatening lives. Still, the majority of sports fans, media and players were caught off guard by a moment that will define the league and everything around it.
Sports world reacts to NBA suspending season over coronavirus
Holy….. https://t.co/ne7kMHWVGX
— Kristie Ackert (@ByKristieAckert) March 12, 2020
Sport is supposed to be an escape from real life … but 2020 apparently has a previously unseen capacity to defy that notion
— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) March 12, 2020
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