Basketball will be put on hold for a little while. Due to the outgrowing growth of the corona virus, the NBA has suspended the season indefinitely. After many concerns regarding the virus, the NBA was in talks of playing games without fans. But that has immediately changed after the Jazz-Thunder game was postponed after Rudy Gobert was out with an illness and later on tested positive for the corona virus. The NBA will have more information on the situation in a later time.

Wow…..Can you believe this!?

Who would’ve thought that the NBA would be put on pause for a virus!? As we all know this corona virus has been talked about for the past week or two, and the more and more it seems to scare people. This was an absolute crazy day, we all saw at the beginning of the day that the Warriors and Nets game were going to be played without fans. When I saw that, I was surprised that it was starting to come to that point of having to play without fans, and I was just hoping that we wouldn’t see the same thing happen with March Madness. Well that is exactly what happened, as the NCAA announced that there will be no fans in attendance during the NCAA basketball tournament in March. I was getting kind of mad when I heard the news, because I felt like that this virus is scaring everyone and that it was going to ruin watching the atmosphere of watching NCAA tournament games.

All of a sudden when I was on the couch, I went on my phone and saw all these tweets going on about the Thunder and Jazz players leaving the court right before tip off. The reason why they left the floor, because they were waiting for confirmation if they could play the game, as there was concerns of the corona virus to the players sitting out of the game due to illness. Those two players were Rudy Gobert and Emmanuel Mudiay.

The Thunder and Jazz decided to postpone the game, leaving a lot of people shocked. About an hour or less, the NBA announced the season would be suspended after Wednesday night as Rudy Gobert was tested positive for the virus. Right then and there, I knew that this was something very serious and understood why they needed to put the season on hold. The Kings-Pelicans game was also cancelled as the ref for the game worked at the Jazz game earlier in the week, and the Pelicans did not want to come out and play.

I don’t know what is going to happen, this is all crazy stuff happening in one day. I’m not sure how long this suspension will be, it might be a week, a month, two months, or may even call it a season! I will be curious on how they will do the playoffs, if the NBA decides to pick up right where they left off and keep playing, or if they end the regular season the way it is and go into the playoffs as the current seeds. This will be something to keep an eye out for.

With this virus we have seen school’s switching to online classes, cancelling college spring sports, postponements of games, NBA season on hold, President Trump announcing no flying from Europe for 30 days, Tom Hanks getting the virus, No fans for the March Madness tournament, possibly other suspensions in other major events, and so many more.

I hope that there will be an end to this virus, and our thoughts and prayers are out to the people who are affected by it.

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