No more NBA games after tonight. (At least for a while)
 

Details still coming in.

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Rudy Gobert has Coronaovirus

that's ****ing nuts. Curious if the MLB will even let the season start.

Seems doubtful. But we'll see.

One person gets it so you shut the whole thing down? Really?

MLB delay its season???

I was talking to my Dad about the same thing today.

I'd say odds are pretty high he's not the only guy who has it. Pretty much every team they've played the last two weeks will have to go into quarantine now.

****ing stupid.

Derrick Rose can finally get healthy

crazy how we went from "playing games with no fans" to "suspended season" in just a few hours time.

They let Jordan play a game with the flu, which is atleast just add dangerous as this virus.

Pussies.

MLB next to suspend its season?

XFL next??

So much for NFL FA vists

This is getting bad

Silver is by far the best commissioner compared to the others.

The Thunder and Jazz have stopped playing basketball and are now quarantined inside the arena

Coronavirus is way more deadlier than the flu

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">48 hours ago Rudy Gobert jokingly touched all the mics joking about the cornavirus he now has tested positive for having the virus <a href="https://t.co/bC6xH3DTIl">pic.twitter.com/bC6xH3DTIl</a></p>&mdash; MB (@babyitsmb) <a href="https://twitter.com/babyitsmb/status/1237917825236336646?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 12, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Literally posted this in the middle of everything. Tyreek is the ultimate troll

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Best in the business <a href="https://t.co/2zTVUIwKR7">https://t.co/2zTVUIwKR7</a></p>&mdash; Ty Hill (@cheetah) <a href="https://twitter.com/cheetah/status/1237918545763278848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 12, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

As if he has any sort of serious competition among Bettman, Goodell and Manfred

How is that a troll?

No shit. Meanwhile I'm about to watch the Avs tie the Blues for 1st in the West tonight.

Sports are ****ed for a while.

God had mercy on us and let us have the Super Bowl before unleashing this on the world. :thumb:

We all gonna die. Walking Dead are coming.

He’s an alien.

Bullshit

****in wild

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Expect a statement from the NHL tonight.</p>&mdash; Pierre LeBrun (@PierreVLeBrun) <a href="https://twitter.com/PierreVLeBrun/status/1237919258778230784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 12, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

NHL next

Hey moron the flu is far more treatable than the coronavirus which logically makes the coronavirus worse.

Wow. This is getting horrible

Aw, ****.

Steph Curry missed the last couple of games because of the flu but apparently he got tested and doesn't have it. Thank goodness.

No he isn't. Media just sucks him off the most.

But he banned the word owner!

I respectfully disagree. He light years better than the other 3. No way Goodell would pull this move and Manfred can't even ban cheaters.

Frivolous entertainment and leisure are often the hardest hit in crises like this.
Goods can rebound on a timeline. People hoard, then consume then replenish after the crisis.
Entertainment, you go without it for a bit and a lot of people realize that it's not that much of a necessity and just keep abstaining after the crisis.

It’s more from the fact that everyone he played against will have to quarantine and get tested now - including opposing coaching staffs and anyone with locker room access. This disrupts in the league where any immediate games in the schedule would have been untenable to play regardless.

Goodell is the best commissioner by far. NFL doesn't play by the woke twitter world rules like the NBA does.

Any commissioner would have done this immediately after a player caught this virus. Silver isn't special. He had no choice. The schedule would have been affected for weeks for at least the Jazz (who may have others test positive) and possibly others (who the Jazz have played in past few weeks).

You seriously don’t understand how this spreads, do you?

Goodell letting Tyreek play this year is evidence of that.

And Alex Smith is good enough to take a team to the Super Bowl.

I understand what it is but this is getting re-god damn-diculous. We don't shut down the league for the flu and contrary to the media freak out going on, this player and the other players if they do get sick are not going to die.

We are just getting to the point of insanity.

He and silver and clearly the best. To suggest that they aren’t at least close seems disingenuous at best.

Won't bother me. I watch Chiefs re-runs every night.

Way to stay on topic. Obsess much?

That is the new Roger wanting to get the CBA done. The old Roger from a couple of years ago would have banned him for the season. Once the CBA is signed old Roger will return.

This is the beginning of this shit. Could take months. It’s the right and responsible thing to do right now regardless of one’s own personal feelings or opinions.

Walgreens offering COVID-19 shots?

You're wrong here, Pete. Is the world ending? No. But this is gonna kill a **** ton of people.

So did the 2009 Swine Flu pandemic (the most recent officially classified pandemic until COVID-19) and society didn’t overreact and shut down like this.

Also LeBron James was among several NBA players who tested positive for the Swine Flu in 2009, yet the NBA continued with its games.

You, and many others, are still failing to understand the incubation period on this thing. The swine flu had an incubation period of like 2 days. This thing it's like 5 days to 2 weeks. That's enormous.

That is 100% why this is different than all these other viruses and diseases that people keep comparing it to. We aren't all going to die and there's no reason to panic, but this thing has no treatment and you can have it for a week or more and spread it around and not know it. The only way to stop it is to keep people away from other people.

the Chiefs just pulled their coaches from traveling to pro days. Good for them.

Look at the Gobert thing. It's not like you just have to worry about the Thunder, who they were going to play tonight. Every single team, coach and official the Jazz has played the last two weeks may have been exposed to this, and are now possibly contagious and able to spread it to people they've also played against.

I haven't done the math, but with one single person it's theoretically possible the majority of the league has been exposed to the virus. A virus no one has immunity to.

That’s just specifically the people in the league. The same applies for people he has interacted with away from the team.

This could get very very bad.

Exactly and the more it spreads the more people will die. There is no vaccine so you are relying on the immune system to beat it. There's no guarantee even for a healthy individual although obviously cases of healthy ppl dying from it are rare but it has happened.

Please stop comparing it to the flu , having a vaccine makes a difference on the severity and whether you get it or not, if everyone got the flu shot influenza would kill even less but some idiots still refuse to take it, because who the **** knows . Influenza would kill hundreds of thousands in the us without the vaccine which is where corona is going since there is no ****ing vaccine. The only way to reduce deaths is keeping the infected away .

There was no vaccine during the first six months of the Swine Flu pandemic.

I am not saying there isn’t legit concern about the threat of COVID-19, but it is unclear why the reaction to COVID-19 is way more intense than the public response to the Swine Flu pandemic in 2009-2010.

The Swine Flu was actually way more deadly among younger people than COVID-19 currently is.

Nearly 13,000 Americans died from the Swine Flu pandemic yet the public hysteria never approached what we are seeing now with COVID-19.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">All 30 NBA teams can be connected in just the last 5 days.<br><br>The NBA made the right decision to suspend this season. <a href="https://t.co/jUy3X5zwTj">pic.twitter.com/jUy3X5zwTj</a></p>&mdash; StatMuse (@statmuse) <a href="https://twitter.com/statmuse/status/1237923526461530112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 12, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

He probably got it from the microphones ROFL what a dumb****

not only that, but they all share the same filthy ass ball that all their filthy ass hands have touched

Jordan just shaking his head.

There's a lot more unknowns w the coronavirus then there was w the Swine Flu. Who knows when there will be a vaccine for the CoronaVirus. Its going to be a while.

Are you so confident that this won't dwarf the swine flu outbreak that you don't think precautions are wise? I know it's preliminary, but this thing seems to kill far more people than swine flu. It seems perfectly reasonable that far more than 13k people will die from this if nothing is done.

He was just hungover, btw

Wrong. It was food poisoning.

Nice pull. I stand corrected.

It’s a very common misconception.

If you’re still downplaying this shit, shame on you.

The thought process seems to be that it’s not so bad because it doesn’t kill many or any young people — it’s like some people could give zero ****s about anyone over 65. It’s killing like 15% of those who are 80+ so far.

It’s all good and well until it hits home.

Right. 'Who cares if my grandfather and grandmother die as long as I'm okay!' What a joke.

Dude **** the flu and the flu vaccinne. I get the flu shot every year and I had the flu this year worse than I have had it in years. It's also one of the worse flu seasons we have had.

Influenza killed almost 62,000 people in 2018. This virus is no where close to that.

If we use your logic we might as well shut down everything every time someone get the ****ing flu.

So you think nobody should be doing anything about it and just let it spread? What's your endgame? We shouldn't try to contain it? I don't understand the logic behind these kinds of posts.

This thing has been around 3 months and is just starting to make it's way around the world. How do you know it won't kill more than the typical flu? It might not, but it might. We don't know. There is zero reason to panic and go buy a bunch of toilet paper. But why should you just throw your hands up and not try to contain it?

And that doesn't even get into the herd immunity issue.

If the measures being taken prove effective in mitigating the impacts all the armchair naysayers will say, see, the so called experts were wrong. Such is the state of anti-expertise.

I hate agreeing with Pete.

Based on what I've read and the physicians with whom I've spoken, this claim is inconsistent with the relevant, available information on the subject.

FAX

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Rudy Gobert of the Utah Jazz thought the NBA precautions were a joke — so he touched everything in the room.<br><br>He tested positive for coronavirus today &amp; now the whole NBA is shut down. ��<br> <a href="https://t.co/Gdcw3WZYjj">pic.twitter.com/Gdcw3WZYjj</a></p>&mdash; An0maly (@LegendaryEnergy) <a href="https://twitter.com/LegendaryEnergy/status/1237920294423023621?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 12, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>