Marcus Smart’s spat with COVID-19 was quick and relatively uneventful, but now the former Big 12 Player of the Year is hoping to make an impact in the fight against the coronavirus.
Smart plans to donate plasma to the COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma Project for research, according to The Athletic’s Shams Charania. The project is an experimental treatment that could help high-risk patients recover from COVID-19.
Smart, who played two seasons at Oklahoma State, announced he tested positive for the virus March 19. On Monday, Smart announced that the Massachusetts Department of Health cleared him on Friday and that throughout his diagnosis he didn’t have any symptoms.