Last night the NBA suspended the rest of the season until further notice after word came down that Utah Jazz guard Rudy Gobert was infected with Coronavirus, forcing the Jazz game against the Oklahoma City Thunder to be postponed.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver wasted no time and suspended the rest of the season until the virus is contained. By Thursday morning word came down that another Jazz player, Donovan Mitchell also contracted the virus.
There is great risk moving players, coaches, officials, and team and league personnel around the country if the virus is spreading within the NBA, so Silver had no choice but to put a halt to the season. When and if the NBA season resumes is anyones guess at this point.
On top of that after the NCAA barred fans from attending arenas for March Madness, the Power Five conferences may have put a halt to the entire tournament by canceling their own conference tournaments which were taking place this week. More specifically, the SEC, ACC, Big 10, Big 12, and Pac 12 will not have conference tournaments.
The Power 5 Conferences join the American, A-10, Conference USA, MAC, American East, Big Sky and WAC as conferences who have canceled their men's basketball tournaments.It is not totally clear if this means the NCAA Tournament is now canceled, but if all the conference tournaments are indeed canned, it's only a matte of time before the entire tournament gets rubbed out.
Meanwhile Major League Soccer has suspended its season and canceled its National Friendlies. The NFL is making plans to hold the NFL draft without fans, and Major League Baseball and the NHL are weighing its options to hold games either without fans or suspend games.
Only the XFL appears to be ok with playing despite this disease - what a shock from the classless and fledging league.
Who knows how long it will be before we can return to normalcy in this country again. Until then the world is slowly stopping and waiting for a solution to this deadly virus.
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