NBA’s Star Test Positive for COVID-19

The NBA’s Rudy Gobert purposely touched reporters’ microphones just two days before he tested positive for the coronavirus, causing the league to suspend the season.

Utah Jazz player Rudy Gobert‘s positive test for the coronavirus on March 11 caused the NBA to halt the season, suspending all games indefinitely. Already some precautions had been put into place, including one by the Utah Jazz ahead of their home game against the NBA champion Toronto Raptors on March 9.

Instead of letting reporters get close to players and interview them on the court following the team’s shoot-around prior to the game, it was moved inside Zions Bank Basketball Campus media room. That’s where Rudy then did something that has many fans calling him an “idiot.”