{"id":5496,"date":"2020-03-12T09:11:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T09:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.offshoresportsbooks.com\/news\/?p=5496"},"modified":"2020-03-12T09:11:27","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T09:11:27","slug":"coronavirus-shuts-down-nba-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.offshoresportsbooks.com\/news\/coronavirus-shuts-down-nba-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus Shuts Down NBA Season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <strong>NBA<\/strong> has announced that it is suspending <strong>19\/20 regular\nseason games until further notice<\/strong>. The decision came on <strong>Wednesday<\/strong> \u2013 <strong>March11<\/strong>\n&#8211; evening when an NBA official statement said that a player in the league had\ntested \u201cpreliminary positive\u201d for the novel coronavirus or <strong>COVID-19<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a result, the Association is suspending all games, and specifically the <strong>Utah Jazz<\/strong> vs <strong>Oklahoma City Thunder <\/strong>match-up. According to the <strong>Associated Press<\/strong>, citing sources, Utah Jazz\u2019s <strong>Rudy Gobert<\/strong> has been infected with the coronavirus \u2013 or at least so the preliminary testing suggests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The NBA G League has suspended its season after NBA&#39;s indefinite suspension.<\/p>&mdash; Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1237959515896778753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 12, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The team has not confirmed the information officially. The NBA is the\nfirst major American league to go ahead and suspend all events, but it\u2019s\nhardly going to be the last. All around the world, events have been cancelled\nor postponed with uncertainty reigning supreme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most\nnotably, the Olympic Games in Japan will most likely be postponed\n\u2013 or cancelled altogether \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2020\/mar\/11\/tokyo-olympics-coronavirus-postponement-denied-yoshiro-mori\">even\nthough the Olympics\u2019 chief insists that things are on track<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"will-march-madness-follow-suit\">Will March Madness Follow Suit?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>America\u2019s college men\u2019s basketball championship might get suspended if\nCOVID-19 continues to spread. Right now, <strong>NCAA tournament events<\/strong> are\nscheduled to continue but <a href=\"https:\/\/eu.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ncaab\/2020\/03\/11\/ncaa-tournament-fans-banned-due-to-coronavirus-concerns\/5024027002\/\">no\nlive audience will be admitted<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This applies for the women\u2019s championship as well. NCAA president <strong>Mark\nEmmert <\/strong>explained that this is an unprecedented move but it is necessary due\nto the severity of the coronavirus disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>World Health Organization(WHO) <\/strong>has already declared the\noutbreak a <em>pandemic<\/em>, referring to the virus\u2019 ability to spread. While\nthe disease is less contagious than the common flu, it\u2019s more difficult to\ndetect due to its asymptomatic nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The incubation period, health experts reckon, could be anything from two\nto 14 days, making detection very difficult. On top of that, the coronavirus\nhas a two-meter transmittance rate, new studies show and some even fear that\nthe virus may already be evolving with two different coronavirus strains\nspreading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cancelled and Suspended \u2013 The List of\nSports Events to Have Been Affected Grows<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>No such information about the evolving nature of the <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.offshoresportsbooks.com\/news\/coronavirus-halts-all-italian-sport-including-serie-a\/\">coronavirus<\/a>has yet been\nofficially confirmed by the WHO. Meanwhile, a whole lot of events globally have\nturned away their live crowds. Apart from the Indian Wells and NBA, the Tokyo\nMarathon and Formula One have been subjected to restrictions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking ahead, the virus is unlikely to have been dealt with in the next\nseveral months, prompting <strong>FIFA <\/strong>to postpone its <strong>Asian qualifiers for\nthe 2020 World Cup<\/strong>. Just as well, coronavirus has been keeping world\nleaders on edge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The United States has just issued a travel ban for flights between\nEurope and the U.S., effectively trying to contain the disease\u2019s further spread\n\u2013 or at least slow it down. In the United Kingdom, the English Premier League\n(EPL) will most likely play games without live audience and pubs have been\nemptying out as fewer people turn up to watch matches in public spaces. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NBA has announced that it is suspending 19\/20 regular season games until further notice. The decision came on Wednesday \u2013 March11 &#8211; evening when an NBA official statement said that a player in the league had tested \u201cpreliminary positive\u201d for the novel coronavirus or COVID-19. 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