The crowds in Oklahoma City are always loud, so Joe Ingles moved in closer to try to hear what the referees were talking about at the scorer’s table.
“The only thing I heard them saying is, ‘Are you going to tell the coaches or am I?” Ingles recalls. “I just thought, ‘This isn’t good.’”
It has been 12 days since the Utah Jazz and the OKC Thunder were called off the court before tipoff, 12 days since the first player tested positive for COVID-19 and the NBA season was suspended. It has been a surreal 12 days for the world—Ingles and his family included.