With the NBA suspending its season after a player on the Utah Jazz tested positive for COVID-19, the league is asking their recent opponents to self-quarantine, according to ESPN‘s Brian Windhorst.
The Toronto Raptors are among the teams that have played against the Jazz over the past 10 days and, according to Shams Charania of The Athletic, the players will have to be in self-quarantine for the next 14 days.
Charania added that the Raptors were also given precautionary tests for coronavirus Wednesday night.
The Cleveland Cavaliers, New York Knicks, Boston Celtics and Detroit Pistons also played against the Jazz during that stretch and have been asked to self-quarantine.
According to ESPN‘s Adrian Wojnarowski, Rudy Gobert was tested for the coronavirus ahead Utah’s game against the Oklahoma City Thunder and the league was awaiting the results before deciding whether to go ahead with the game. Gobert was reportedly not at Chesapeake Energy Arena on Wednesday, but was with the team in Oklahoma City.
After fans waited 30 minutes for tipoff, the NBA announced that the game was postponed “due to unforeseen circumstances.”
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