TRAILER: MARCH 11 2020

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🗓️ 14 December 2020

⏱️ 2 minutes

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There has perhaps been no greater event in recent history that has so clearly underlined how integral sports are to our culture than the coronavirus pandemic has. March 11 2020 will tell the story of a seismic day that started in one reality and ended with a new one — the day the NBA shut down and the pandemic became real — as told by those who lived it. Full episode available December 21, 2020. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What I felt before the game was this touch of anxiety.
0:05.6	What I felt in the aftermath of that game was the beginning of fear.
0:10.7	I gave very serious warnings about what was ahead.
0:14.4	This COVID thing is just really going to hit Oklahoma.
0:17.4	We started hearing that there might be this big announcement from the World Health Organization.
0:21.3	The World Health Organization has declared the coronavirus outbreak up pandemic.
0:25.8	We said we can't confirm or deny anything. We can't say exactly what it is. He's sick, that's it.
0:31.6	And my Commissioner of Health said Governor, he said need to tell you something.
0:35.3	Everything was all the way normal, all the way up to the tip.
0:38.4	Hey you see the team doctor run out of the tunnel.
0:41.2	It felt like someone had just hit the slow-mo button.
0:44.6	What is going on in Oklahoma City?
0:46.4	They're supposed to be playing. Why aren't they playing?
0:48.1	That was it. Like everything stops.
0:50.6	It's oh my god, the NBA.
0:53.2	It almost is sacrosanct.
0:55.3	People are on the ground, whipping open, testing kits.
0:59.3	There's fans trying to come over and talk to us.
1:01.5	We're like don't touch us, don't come to us.
1:03.7	It's no way we all don't have it.
1:06.5	My life could be in danger for real.
1:08.7	You knew that the direction of the entire 2020 year
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