With the NBA officially suspended for the first time since the 2011 lockdown, the San Antonio Spurs and their fans have been amongst the many groups emanating big reactions. This is an unprecedented turn of events in professional sports with various conferences of the NCAA, as well as the NBA, NHL, MLB and MLS suspending play.
This came to a boiling point last night when it was announced that Utah Jazz star center Rudy Gobert was diagnosed with the COVID-19 coronavirus. There is no previous precedent for this in the NBA with the most comparable moment being the NBA’s suspension of play in the 1996 hybrid live action-animated film Space Jam starring Michael Jordan.