The Utah Jazz saw their starting center test positive for Covid-19 earlier today.
Now arguably their best player, Donovan Mitchell, has been tested positive for the virus as well.
League sources told ESPN that Gobert's teammate was the second confirmed case of Covid-19 in the league.
Jazz star Donovan Mitchell has tested positive for the coronavirus, league sources tell ESPN. Jazz players privately say that Rudy Gobert had been careless in the locker room touching other players and their belongings. Now a Jazz teammate has tested positive.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) March 12, 2020
"Jazz star Donovan Mitchell has tested positive for the coronavirus, league sources tell ESPN. Jazz players privately say that Rudy Gobert had been careless in the locker room touching other players and their belongings. Now a Jazz teammate has tested positive."
Mitchell was also at Del City High School yesterday (Mar. 11) for a private workout.
Donovan Mitchell was at Del City High School yesterday for a private workout. #OKPreps https://t.co/0xXOBP8Pis
— Cameron Jourdan (@Cam_Jourdan) March 12, 2020
According to Shams Charania, reporter for the Athletic, reported that Mitchell was the only one at this moment who tested positive for the virus.
Sources: Donovan Mitchell was the only Jazz player/personnel to test positive for coronavirus out of 58 tests administered on Wednesday night. Remaining tests came back negative.
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) March 12, 2020
The Jazz players are reportedly staying over at a hotel in Oklahoma as they await results of their tests.
According to sources, the Jazz will be staying tonight in OKC at a hotel, and then pending the overnight results of the virus testing, will make plans on how to travel back to Salt Lake. Which could include a positive test charter plane and a negative charter plane.
— Royce Young (@royceyoung) March 12, 2020
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