When Utah Jazz head coach Quin Snyder walked inside his team’s Oklahoma City hotel last night, he tried to remember the atmosphere and the excitement he felt there in years past.
But the memories of March 11, 2020, came flooding back instead.
“You can’t help but remember that evening,” Snyder said.
That was the night the NBA season came to a screeching halt with All-Stars Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell becoming the league’s first player to test positive for COVID-19. Nine months later, Gobert and Mitchell were back in Oklahoma City, and this time they weren’t leaving without a win.