NBA: Gobert's unusual joke before testing positive; Donovan Mitchell, second infected in the NBA | NBA 2019

Thursday,
12
March
2020

16:51

After the positive of the French, up to 58 tests were performed in the Jazz and only the guard has tested positive for COVID 19

Ibaka, defended by Gobert, this Monday.
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Suddenly, just a few minutes before the game began at the Chesapeake Energy Arena, something set off all the alarms. Emergency meetings on the track between referees and coaches and the two teams, the Thunder and the Jazz, back to the locker room. It soon became known that Rudy Gobert was the first case of an NBA player testing positive for coronavirus. Also all the activity of the best basketball league in the world was soon stopped until further notice.

This same Thursday it has been known that his partner Donovan Mitchell also infected. “Oklahoma health authorities tested all members of the Utah Jazz who were on the expedition, confirming an additional positive case of a Jazz player,” the team said in a brief statement.

Although of the 58 tests conducted on all Jazz personnel, only that has been positive for COVID 19. The Utah team is in quarantine, as well as their rivals from the last few nights. The Raptors, for example, who faced the Salt Lake City team last Monday, are waiting for the test results. Serge Ibaka He was defending the French for much of the match.

For those things of fate, Gobert himself starred a few days ago in a casual scene with the coronavirus as the protagonist. At a press conference, scoffed at the measures that were already shuffled in the NBA.

He got up with histrinic movements to avoid touching the table and then, always jokingly, I played the microphones and the recorders that the journalists had placed for their intervention. And he ran away. Critics have rained down on the pvot.

In addition, according to information from ESPN, the Jazz teammates affirm that, in private, Gobert showed a arrogant attitude towards virus precautions and did not stop touching them and their belongings.

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