The NBA suspended its season and has been on hiatus since March 11, when Rudy Gobert became the first player to test positive for COVID-19. The next day, his Jazz teammate and New York native, Donovan Mitchell, tested positive. In the ensuing days, four Brooklyn Nets — including Kevin Durant — two unnamed Los Angeles Lakers, one Detroit Piston (Christian Wood), one Boston Celtic (Marcus Smart), and members of both the Nuggets and Sixers staff also tested positive for the coronavirus. Timberwolves star Karl-Anthony Towns announced his mother was placed in a medically-induced coma due to coronavirus complications, as well.