{"id":193835,"date":"2020-03-11T21:26:32","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T02:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=193835"},"modified":"2020-03-11T21:44:40","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T02:44:40","slug":"nba-suspends-season-after-player-tests-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=193835","title":{"rendered":"NBA suspends season after player tests positive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(ESPN) &#8211; breaking news from ESPN:\u00a0 The NBA has suspended its season &#8220;until further notice&#8221; after a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/utah\/utah-jazz\">Utah Jazz<\/a>\u00a0player tested positive Wednesday for the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/28887560\/nba-suspends-season-further-notice-player-tests-positive-coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full story<\/a>\u00a0at ESPN.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/article\/2020\/03\/11\/nba-suspend-season-following-wednesdays-games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Official Release from NBA<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>NEW YORK<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0The NBA announced that a player on the Utah Jazz has preliminarily tested positive for COVID-19. \u00a0The test result was reported shortly prior to the tip-off of Wednesday&#8217;s game between the Jazz and Oklahoma City Thunder at Chesapeake Energy Arena. \u00a0At that time, Wednesday&#8217;s game was canceled. \u00a0The affected player was not in the arena.\u00a0 The NBA is suspending game play following the conclusion of Wednesday&#8217;s schedule of games until further notice. \u00a0The NBA will use this hiatus to determine next steps for moving forward in regard to the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>From AP<\/p>\n<p>MIAMI (AP) \u2014 The NBA has suspended its season \u201cuntil further notice\u201d after a Utah Jazz player tested positive Wednesday for the coronavirus, a move that came only hours after the majority of the league\u2019s owners were leaning toward playing games without fans in arenas.Now there will be no games at all, at least for the time being. A person with knowledge of the situation said the Jazz player who tested positive was center Rudy Gobert. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because neither the league nor the team confirmed the presumptive positive test.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(ESPN) &#8211; breaking news from ESPN:\u00a0 The NBA has suspended its season &#8220;until further notice&#8221; after a\u00a0Utah Jazz\u00a0player tested positive Wednesday for the coronavirus. Full story\u00a0at ESPN. Official Release from NBA NEW YORK\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0The NBA announced that a player on the Utah Jazz has preliminarily tested positive for COVID-19. \u00a0The test [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":193842,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193835"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193841,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193835\/revisions\/193841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/193842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}