SALT LAKE CITY — When the Utah Jazz were stuck in the visiting team’s locker room at Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City on March 11, being tested for the coronavirus, it was a wake-up call, an up close and personal realization of the seriousness of a global pandemic.
Surrounded by masked department of health workers, the Jazz had just learned that Rudy Gobert had tested positive for COVID-19, the NBA season had been suspended, and that they were at risk of infection. That meant that their families were likely at risk as well.
Mike Conley’s first thought was of his wife, Mary Peluso, who is pregnant with the couple’s third child.