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No Fans, No Work: Arena Workers Caught in Sports Shutdown

MIAMI — David Edelman can usually be found at a Denver Nuggets basketball game or a Colorado Rapids soccer game. As an usher, he interacts with fans in a role he calls a staple of his life.

But there are no Nuggets games for at least a month. No Rapids games, either. And Edelman has no idea what he'll do now.

"This is what I do for a living," Edelman said earlier this week, as the realization hit that sports were going on hiatus because of the coronavirus. "This is my income."

Thousands of workers would have staffed the 450 NBA and NHL games that will not be played over the next month in response to the pandemic.