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NBA Suspends Season After Player Tests Positive For Coronavirus

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The NBA season has been suspended after a player tested positive for coronavirus.

The NBA suspended its season until further notice following games Wednesday evening after a player for the Utah Jazz tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.

The test result was reported shortly before the tip-off of the game between the Utah Jazz and the Oklahoma City Thunder at Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City, the NBA said. 

The Athletic's Shams Charania reported that the player who tested positive for coronavirus was Utah center Rudy Gobert.

The NBA said in a release that it "will use this hiatus to determine next steps for moving forward in regard to the coronavirus pandemic."

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Jodie Valade has been a Digital News and Engagement Editor for WFAE since 2019. Since moving to Charlotte in 2015, she has worked as a digital content producer for NASCAR.com and a freelance writer for publications ranging from Charlotte magazine to The Athletic to The Washington Post and New York Times. Before that, Jodie was an award-winning sports features and enterprise reporter at The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, Ohio. She also worked at The Dallas Morning News covering the Dallas Mavericks — where she became Mark Cuban's lifelong email pen pal — and at The Kansas City Star. She has a Bachelor of Science in Journalism from Northwestern University and a Master of Education from John Carroll University. She is originally from Rochester Hills, Michigan.