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🗓️ 12 March 2020
⏱️ 17 minutes
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0:00.0 | Wow, an unprecedented day for the NBA for the nation really as NBA games are |
0:06.9 | Suspended indefinitely with the scary news that Rudy Gobert jazz All-Star Center has tested positive for coronavirus |
0:14.6 | And I was actually watching I saw Royce Young's tweet that there was an odd delay to the game |
0:20.5 | So I flipped over to the OKC telecast and it was just a surreal scene as |
0:26.5 | The PA announcer is telling people in like a super upbeat voice that they're waiting for League approval for the |
0:33.7 | Game to begin Royce started tweeting out that someone from the Thunder staff |
0:39.0 | Sprinted across the court telling the officials and the coaches that they needed to stop the game |
0:44.3 | Royce later reported that Chris Paul went over to the Utah bench and they all told him to get away from him get away from them |
0:49.8 | And then later it was revealed not probably 30 minutes later that Gobert had indeed tested positive |
0:56.2 | The jazz are quarantined at the arena as we're recording this they all got tested |
1:01.8 | They're all wearing masks. They are not gonna be allowed to fly back to Oklahoma City and what it seems like |
1:09.8 | I mean throughout these last two days or the developments just kept snowballing much as they have really in the country and |
1:16.6 | It's just I mean they're absolutely making the right move to suspend and play at this point because there's no way of knowing |
1:23.4 | Right now how deep this goes with the some of the contacts that go bearers had or and obviously I mean this is this what's going on the NBA right now |
1:31.4 | It's just a metaphor for the entire nation right and that is the bizarre and for for our reasons kind of selfish reasons kind of hard to see |
1:39.1 | Silver lining of it which is that this is a a global issue and there have been |
1:44.3 | Dramatically different responses based on area if you want to do some digging into this you can find a lot of things and |
1:49.1 | Some of it can be done by governments whether that it be federal state local in the United States contacts |
1:55.0 | That can of course be different in other countries, but elements of this social distancing and everything else need to be done at the |
2:02.1 | Individual and community new level and a part of that is taking the risk of this seriously and if this is what it took |
2:10.9 | This and if we want to throw in I mean this is going to be important |
2:14.2 | You know Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson announcing that they test positive while in Australia if if these comp this confluence of events that it took for |
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