Welcome to the back-to-back pod on the athletic podcast network.

This is Nerder she wrote with your host Dave Dufour with Mo DeKiel and Seth Partnack.

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Hello and welcome to this week's episode of Nerders She Wrote.

I'm your host, Dave DeFort, joined as always by Mo Dekiel and Seth Part Now.

We want to start out first.

We want to talk about the coronavirus and the league's response to it.

We're going to bring in Anthony Slater, our beat writer, that covers the Warriors, to talk about the coronavirus and the league's response to it. We're going to bring in Anthony Slater, our beat writer, that covers the Warriors, to talk a

little bit about that now.

Anthony, this is, it's going to be weird.

We're going to have empty gyms, and it looks like the Warriors will be the first team to do

this.

Yeah, I'm actually sitting in Section 122 at Chase Center right now in an empty arena,

waiting for likely Steph Curry and Steve Kerr to talk pretty soon,

and it's weird that this is going to be the state of the game tomorrow.

You know, there's the expectation that media members and stuff like, you know,

game night staffers will be around, kind of helping out the game, just making sure it kind of progresses along. But without fans, you don't really need a hype crew, a dance crew, all that. I mean, it's just going to be a straight-up scrimmage that, I guess, is going to be televised. And they're the first to announce it. I'm not sure they're the first to play in an empty arena because there might be a game that

happens before it that's announced no fans coming in because this thing is moving very,

very quickly.

And I mean, I'm looking across the arena right now.

I mean, there's workers that are like spraying seats with like disinfectant.

Like it's this, it's advanced very quickly

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