The Warriors are in limbo after the NBA suspended its season “until further notice” Wednesday night.

The league decided to halt operations after Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert reportedly tested positive for the coronavirus ahead of the Jazz’s game Wednesday against the Thunder.

“The result was reported shortly prior to the tip-off of tonight’s game between the Jazz and Oklahoma City Thunder at Chesapeake Energy Arena,” the NBA announced in a news release that didn’t name the player, but multiple reports identified him as Gobert. “At that time, tonight’s game was canceled. The infected player was not in the arena.

“The NBA is suspending game play following the conclusion of tonight’s schedule of games until further notice. The NBA will use this hiatus to determine next steps for moving forward in regard to the coronavirus pandemic.”

The Warriors sit at a league-worst 15-50 with 17 regular-season games left, including seven at Chase Center. According to a team spokesman, head coach Steve Kerr and general manager Bob Myers plan to address the media Thursday.

This is the first time the NBA has suspended operations since the 2011 lockout. The league has told teams that they can continue to practice, but the Warriors have made no plans to do that, according to a team source.

The NBA’s announcement came hours after the Warriors broke plans to play Thursday night’s game against the Nets without fans in attendance at Chase Center — a move Golden State believed could set a precedent for the league.

“As San Francisco has really been the first domino to fall here, I think there is a lot of speculation that other cities will look at what San Francisco is doing,” Warriors President Rick Welts said Wednesday afternoon. “We potentially could have other NBA cities affected the way we are in the not-too-distant future.”

San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced Wednesday morning that the city would issue a two-week ban of events that gather at least 1,000 people. Before the NBA’s announcement, the Warriors announced that they’d issue refunds to fans with tickets to Thursday’s game, as well as for Saturday’s game featuring the G League’s Santa Cruz Warriors against the Austin Spurs, which is supposed to move from Chase Center to Santa Cruz’s Kaiser Permanente Arena.

Chase Center also has planned to postpone Friday’s Tame Impala concert and a March 21 Bell Biv Devoe & Friends concert, and it will cancel or postpone a Post Malone concert scheduled for next Thursday.

Before Gobert tested positive for coronavirus, the Warriors were figuring out in-game logistics such as which media members would be allowed to attend, whether music would be played and whether a PA announcer would be used.

According to Welts, the more pressing concern at that time was what would happen to the roughly 1,500 part-time employees, some of whom are living paycheck to paycheck. Those staffers could be out money because they get paid hourly and aren’t needed if Golden State isn’t playing.

“We’re going to be supportive in any way we can,” Welts said. “We have a business model that depends on hosting live events, so we're in a tough spot there. But I think we’re all in this together. Our government has, I think, an obligation here.

“Our city government, our county government, our federal government, our state, to understand the impact — not just on our 1,500 workers, but on the thousands of other workers that fall into exactly the same category.”

The Warriors had been scheduled to leave Friday for a five-game trip to Milwaukee (Saturday), Toronto (Monday), Indiana (Wednesday), Detroit (March 20) and New York (March 21). At the moment, Golden State is bracing to lose well north of $3 million for each game it doesn’t play, according to a team source.

Connor Letourneau is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: cletourneau@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @Con_Chron