When the NBA announced that the 2019-20 season for the Cleveland Cavaliers and other teams was suspended on March 11 due to Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert testing positive for the novel coronavirus pandemic, basketball fans were initially shocked. It wasn’t at the suspension in reaction to Gobert’s positive test, it was more so just about the uncertainty of maybe when the season would come back, or if, really.
As the COVID-19 pandemic has created more and more isolation, players now have limited options to be active. The NBA announced that every team was to be closing team workout and practice facilities on Friday, h/t Cleveland.