Since Rudy Gobert entered the NBA in 2013 as the 27th overall pick of the Utah Jazz, he has been known as an affable French import, a 7-foot-1 "Stifle Tower" -- with a remarkable 7-foot-9 wingspan -- who won consecutive Defensive Player of the Year awards anchoring his team's elite defense.
But after Gobert tested positive for the coronavirus -- the news filtering into Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City, where the Jazz were set to take on the Thunder on March 11 -- he became known as something else: the NBA's patient zero.