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Calls For NFL To Take Sensible Approach To Offseason Amid Coronavirus As NBA And Other Leagues Set To Suspend Play

In a surreal yet equally predictable moment last night, the NBA’s 2019-2020 suddenly came to an abrupt halt. With Utah Jazz Rudy Gobert being tested positive for COVID-19, the league suspended the Jazz’s game against the Oklahoma Thunder, literally seconds before it was set to tip off.

While the other games already set to take place last night remained on deck as schedule, the league subsequently announced that all games going forward would be suspended indefinitely as the country only now begins to come to grips with the scale of this coronavirus.