Detroit — It was a maybe the best week of basketball in Christian Wood’s life.
In a four-game span, he set a new career high three times: 29 points against the Oklahoma City Thunder, 30 points versus the Utah Jazz and 32 points against the Philadelphia 76ers.
The peak period in Wood’s nomadic four NBA seasons was moving toward the spotlight, with him as the breakout centerpiece in the Pistons’ impromptu rebuild.
The spotlight shifted Saturday, after Wood had a preliminary positive test for COVID-19/coronavirus. He became the third NBA player to test positive, after Utah Jazz stars Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell announced their status this week.