Football players and, really, all athletes can’t do their jobs while employing social distancing. The gravity of that inexorable truth played out Wednesday night when Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert tested positive for COVID-19 just minutes before tipoff of their game against the Oklahoma City Thunder. Players, coaches, and teams around the league who faced the Jazz could now be infected because playing basketball requires contact, sweat, saliva, and the myriad other ways the coronavirus can pass between people. Within minutes, the NBA decided to postpone the season, this coming just hours after the NCAA announced March Madness would take place without fans.
As NFL starts to see effects of COVID-19, major decisions loom over health concerns
