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Blazers Broadcaster Bill Schonely Hospitalized With COVID-19

Legendary Portland Trail Blazers broadcaster Bill Schonely has been hospitalized with COVID-19, according to radio host John Canzano.

Legendary Trail Blazers’ broadcaster Bill Schonely hospitalized after testing postive for Covid-19. #RipCity

Link: https://t.co/46xk4DV7P7— John Canzano (@johncanzanobft) April 30, 2022

Schonely, 92, and his wife Dottie both tested positive and were admitted into separate hospitals. Luckily, their sickness doesn’t appear to be serious.

“I’m ready to go home in a couple or three days,” Schonely told Canzano.

Schonely was the official play-by-play broadcaster for the team in its first 28 years of existence.