NBA Suspends Season After Player Tests Positive for Covid-19
- Utah Jazz’s Gobert had previously been described as ill
- ‘The NBA will use this hiatus to determine next steps’
The National Basketball Association will suspend its season after a player tested positive for coronavirus, upending the league’s attempts to maintain business as usual during the outbreak.
A player on the Utah Jazz received the diagnosis on a preliminary basis, the NBA said in a statement Wednesday. The test result came shortly before the Jazz were to play the Oklahoma City Thunder, and the game was scrapped.