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The Woj Pod

ESPN NBA Analyst Doris Burke

The Woj Pod

ESPN

Sports

4.6722 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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ESPN NBA Analyst Doris Burke joins The Woj Pod to reveal that she has tested positive for the COVID-19 virus, including details of her symptoms, her hospital testing experience and her recovery process. In opening up, she is hopeful to make more people aware of the importance of social distancing and other important measures being taken to try and combat the pandemic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome into Doris Burke, ESPN's NBA analyst and a gaudy award winner at the Basketball Hall of Fame, of course, and a good friend.

0:13.3

Doris, how are you today?

0:15.0

I'm doing well, Woj, I'm doing quite well now, to be perfectly honest with you.

0:20.7

I've had an interesting couple of weeks, which is part of why we're talking.

0:24.7

Let's get right into it, Doris.

0:27.0

You had reason to believe that you needed to get a test for the coronavirus.

0:34.7

You did that and walk us through what happened next?

0:39.1

Right.

0:39.5

Well, I mean, let's just start with the headline, which is I did test positive for COVID-19.

0:44.5

And basically my first symptom, looking back on it now, Adrian, was March 11th, which was

0:51.0

the day I was broadcasting, Jenver at Dallas, which was obviously the moment, uh,

0:57.4

when Rudy Gobera tested positive, which set off the, the ensuing series of events.

1:03.0

You know, what's interesting for me and what I would hope that people would know, um,

1:07.5

because like most Americans, I think I, you know, I had been tuning in and reading and trying to understand, you know, what symptoms were, et cetera, et cetera.

1:15.4

But basically on March 11th, I remember sitting at lunch with my broadcast crew for that evening, you know, very standard for us to have a lunch production meeting.

1:24.8

And I looked at my college, Ryan Ruko and Ian Gruco, my producer, and I just, man, I am so tired right now. And I looked at my college, Ryan Ruko and Ian Grouca, my producer,

1:28.4

and I just, man, I am so tired right now and my head is pounding. And looking back, those were

1:35.0

my symptoms. And we've heard so much, Adrian, about shortness of breath, fever, tightness in

1:43.3

your chest, chills, body aches, et cetera. For me, March, fever, tightness in your chest, chills, body aches, etc. For me, March 11th was really

1:49.8

looking back, and that really was my primary symptom throughout this, was this extraordinary fatigue.

1:56.9

I took an aspirin that day. I felt better. I went about the normal business of trying to prep for the game, do the game. Thursday morning en route to the airport, I, you know, had another headache. I had been so tired on that Wednesday that I looked at Ryan Rucco and said, you know, I think I should fly back. I think I should call ESPN and ask, can I switch my flights and go directly to Los Angeles and rest for a couple of days as opposed to what I was originally going to do, which is fly back east on that Thursday and then fly back to Los Angeles on Saturday morning because I had a Sunday Monday, Laker game Sunday,

2:37.0

Clipper game Monday, and then I was going to red eye back home.

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