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Something is happening Wednesday in Oklahoma City, where the NBA game between the Thunder and Utah Jazz was postponed moments before tipoff.

ABC 5 in Oklahoma City is reporting that a pair of Jazz players are being tested for the coronavirus.

The Athletic’s Shams Charania reports Jazz center Rudy Gobert tested positive for the coronavirus.

As a result, Charania reports the NBA has “suspended its season.”

ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reports the NBA will be on “hiatus.”

The Associated Press reports “the league expects the shutdown to last a minimum of two weeks, but cautioned that timeframe is very fluid.”

Yahoo Sports reports that at a press conference Monday, Gobert "attempted to make a point about overreaction and fear by touching everything in sight before he left. He leaned over and touched all of the microphones and recorders.”

According to Yahoo Sports, the Jazz had listed Gobert, as well as guard Emmanuel Mudiay, as questionable for Wednesday’s game against the Thunder due to “illness.”

ESPN.com’s Royce Young reports Gobert was never at the arena on Wednesday night.

Wojnarowski reports the Jazz and Thunder are “quarantined in the OKC arena."

Wednesday night after the game, the Jazz released a statement explaining how the positive test result for the coronavirus came only moments before tipoff against the Thunder.

The domino effect from the Jazz-Thunder postponement was felt immediately in Sacramento, where Wednesday night’s game between the Kings and New Orleans Pelicans was canceled shortly before tipoff.

According to The Athletic’s Sam Amick, one of the referees in Sacramento worked Monday’s game between the Jazz and Toronto Raptors.

As for the scene in Oklahoma City, Young provided play-by-play of the decision to scrap the game on his Twitter account:

Something is going on here. Thunder head medical staffer Donnie Strack just grabbed the three officials and told them something. All players were just told to go back to their bench. We’re seconds from tipoff.

Now the officials just called over Billy Donovan and Quin Snyder.

Just heard official Ben Taylor say he doesn’t exactly know what’s going on, but that he’s been asked to delay the game. It hasn’t been officially called, but players did wave at fans as they walked off the floor.

Both teams are heading to their locker rooms. I think the game might’ve just been called.

Following the postponement, custodial workers at Chesapeake Energy Arena were seen wiping down the building.

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban urged everyone not to make “rash” decisions.

Earlier Wednesday, NBA owners were discussing how to handle playing games in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak.

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Wojnarowski reported "the NBA’s Board of Governors shared a consensus on Wednesday to continue the season playing games without fans in arenas amid the coronavirus crisis, and Commissioner Adam Silver is expected to move in that direction with a decision on Thursday.

“Several teams were willing to put the games on hiatus, but the rest wanted to move toward eliminating fans from arenas to continue playing games, sources tell ESPN. One team wanted to keep status quo until a governmental/public mandate dictated change: The New York Knicks.”

However all that has gone out the window after what happened Wednesday night in Oklahoma City.

According to the World Health Organization, which declared a pandemic on Wednesday, people with mild illness recover in about two weeks, while those with more severe illness may take three to six weeks to recover.

The NBA’s movement toward empty arenas in the short term came on the same day that the NCAA announced that the men’s and women’s Division I tournaments would be played without fans — except for a few family members — permitted inside to watch.

Things have clearly been trending toward empty arenas for some time, and it was abundantly clear Wednesday morning when the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases told a Congressional committee that he would recommend the NBA not allow fans at games in response to the coronavirus.

Dr. Anthony Fauci was responding to a question asked by Rep. Glenn Grothman, a Wisconsin Republican, “is the NBA underreacting or is the Ivy League overreacting?” Grothman was referencing how the Ivy League recently canceled its basketball tournaments, instead of having them without fans or keeping the status quo.

“We would recommend that there not be large crowds,” Fauci said. “If that means not having any people in the audience when the NBA plays, so be it. But as a public health official, anything that has crowds is something that would give a risk to spread.”

(The Associated Press contributed to this report.)

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