NBA season suspended as player tests positive for Covid-19

The National Basketball Association (NBA) has suspended the 2019-20 season indefinitely after a Utah Jazz player tested positive for the novel coronavirus (Covid-19).

The league announced the suspension yesterday (11 March), just before the Jazz were set to tip off against the Oklahoma City Thunder.

Although the NBA did not name the player who tested positive, Jazz centre Rudy Gobert had been ruled questionable with an illness going into the game and multiple reports have named Gobert as the affected player.

Spanish football league La Liga has also been suspended for matchdays 28 and 29 after the Real Madrid squad went into quarantine after a member of the club’s basketball team tested positive for the virus.

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