Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert has now come up with an apology to media and the NBA World saying that he was not aware that he was infected with the novel coronavirus before he came into contact with the people and also played matches till last week. He took to his social media account to apologize for potentially exposing his team-mates and others to the virus.
“At the time, I had no idea I was even infected. I was careless and make no excuse. I hope my story serves as a warning and causes everyone to take this seriously. I will do whatever I can to support using my experience as way to educate others and prevent the spread of this virus,”
The all-star center from France wrote on his social media handle.
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Hours after NBA suspended the whole season, following Gobert’s contagious virus reports, his fellow teammate and the Shooting guard Donovan Mitchell was also tested positive for the Coronavirus. This created panic among all the five teams who came in contact with the Utah Jazz last week.
Apparently, two days ago Rudy Gobert was seen casually touching the microphones of every Jazz beat reporters to trivialize the spreading of the Novel Coronavirus. NBA abruptly suspended the whole season until further notice. As of now, when will the season resume, it is unclear, but the decision by NBA has caused Dominic effect as the NHL, MLB and virtually every other major American sports league followed the same suit.
Meanwhile, all the five teams that recently came in contact with the Jazz –Oklahoma City Thunder, Toronto Raptors, Detroit Pistons, Boston Celtics and the Washington Wizards are advised to go into self-quarantine as a precaution on an immediate basis.
