NBA suspends season until further notice, over coronavirus

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2011: NBA team owners and players reach a tentative agreement to end the league’s lockout, then at 149 days. The tentative agreement cleared the way for owners to allow players to have voluntary workouts at team sites starting Dec. 1. After the deal was ratified on Dec. 8, training camps, trades and free agency would begin the next day, with the shortened 66-game NBA season beginning on Christmas Day.
2011: NBA team owners and players reach a tentative agreement to end the league's lockout, then at 149 days. The tentative agreement cleared the way for owners to allow players to have voluntary workouts at team sites starting Dec. 1. After the deal was ratified on Dec. 8, training camps, trades and free agency would begin the next day, with the shortened 66-game NBA season beginning on Christmas Day.

MIAMI (AP) — The NBA has suspended its season “until further notice” after a Utah Jazz player tested positive Wednesday for the coronavirus, a move that came only hours after the majority of the league’s owners were leaning toward playing games without fans in arenas.

Now there will be no games at all, at least for the time being. A person with knowledge of the situation said the Jazz player who tested positive was center Rudy Gobert.

The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because neither the league nor the team confirmed the presumptive positive test.

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