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Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr is glad the NBA has taken measures to stop the spread of coronavirus by suspending the 2019-20 season for the safety of their players, employees, and fans. Yet news of four Brooklyn Nets players — including Kevin Durant — testing positive for COVID-19 rattled many around the league. […]

Utah Jazz players reacted to a 5.7 magnitude earthquake in Magna, a metro township city in Salt Lake County. The 7:10 a.m. earthquake was reportedly felt throughout parts of northern Utah and southern Idaho. According to Logan City Police Dispatch, there were no damages as a result of the quake, besides a few startled residents, […]

The coronavirus outbreak has not only put the 2019-20 NBA season to a screeching halt but also created plenty of complications if and when the campaign resumes. Besides a stockpile of draft picks, the Golden State Warriors could also enjoy a $17.2 million trade exception acquired in the Andre Iguodala trade, but only if the […]

LeBron James took on the trend of most NBA players using their quarantine time to relive their own glory days in high school. The Los Angeles Lakers star has now spent a full week without basketball since the outbreak of the coronavirus put a halt into the 2019-20 season. Much like Stephen Curry of the […]

Amid the global coronavirus pandemic, boxing fans will have something to look forward to once the outbreak ceases. Pound-for-pound four-division champion Canelo Alvarez and IBF middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin have agreed to a trilogy bout in the future, according to Lance Pugmire of The Athletic. The two parties had been working on the kinks of […]

The Utah Jazz front office is hoping this 2019-20 season hiatus will help mend the relationship between their two biggest stars, Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert, according to Tony Jones of The Athletic. Gobert was the first NBA player to be test positive for the coronavirus on Wednesday, with Mitchell testing positive the following day. […]

A second player in the New York Yankees’ minor league system has tested positive for the coronavirus, according to ESPN’s Jeff Passan. While the names of this player and the previously infected minor leaguer have not been revealed, it certainly brings attention to the gravity of the outbreak and why Major League Baseball chose to […]

The Men’s & Women’s Olympic Basketball Tournament draw for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics has been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic, FIBA announced on Tuesday. The draw was scheduled to take place on Friday, March 20, but it will now be in limbo until the outbreak is under control. This delay will affect not only […]

Oregon Ducks star Sabrina Ionescu has rubbed elbows with some of the NBA’s greatest players, including the late Kobe Bryant and Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry. As a future No. 1 overall pick of the 2020 WNBA Draft and a four-year star, Ionescu has Curry on speed dial in order to ask for any […]

Oregon Ducks star Sabrina Ionescu won’t be drawing comparisons to Kobe Bryant anytime soon. Her game is smooth, fluid, and stylistically different than the ruthless scoring clinics the late Los Angeles Lakers star used to administer on a nightly basis. Yet Bryant has stayed “close” to Ionescu, even well after his death on Jan. 26 […]

The Euro 2020 tournament will be postponed until 2021 after UEFA reached an agreement with key governing bodies on Tuesday, according to BBC Sports. It was long rumored that the popular European soccer tournament would take a halt amid the coronavirus pandemic that has quickly spread throughout parts of Europe, leaving the competition’s fate in […]

The 146th Kentucky Derby has been rescheduled from May 2 to Sept. 5, 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, it was announced on Tuesday. The 146th Longines Kentucky Oaks will also be rescheduled from May 1 to Sept. 4, 2020. The government and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are recommending to either postpone […]

The Minnesota Timberwolves did more than persist in the relentless pursuit of D’Angelo Russell prior to the trade deadline, also nabbing some key cogs for their rotation. Malik Beasley, who the Denver Nuggets feared was out of their price range, will likely get paid handsomely at the end of the 2019-20 season, according to Jon […]

The NBA could be in line for a painfully long hiatus as the 30-day timeline is considered fluid and most likely bound to extend beyond conservative measures. The 2019-20 season came to a halt after Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert was the first player to test positive for the coronavirus, with teammate Donovan Mitchell and […]

In light of the recent closures of public schools across the country to combat the spread of the coronavirus, MLB and the MLBPA have decided to donate $1 million to fight hunger. Millions of students rely on their respective schools to give them at least one of their meals for the day. The closures will […]

The 2020 MLB season will be delayed further in light of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recommendation to ban congregations of 50 and more people within the next eight weeks in hopes to contain the coronavirus pandemic. MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred announced that the regular season will be pushed back due to this […]

It didn’t take long for the self-isolation rules to prove difficult for NBA players. Toronto Raptors big man Chris Boucher was spotted at a downtown Toronto Loblaws on Thursday, just one day after he and his teammates were ordered into self-isolation to prevent any potential spread of the coronavirus. The Raptors were one of the […]

The NBA and the National Basketball Players Association have agreed to eliminate drug testing during the hiatus to the 2019-20 season that has been caused by the coronavirus pandemic, according to Chris Haynes of Yahoo Sports. Players were previously tested with “six random, unannounced urine drug tests during each season and off-season,” as Article XXXIII […]

The NBA’s decision to suspend the 2019-20 season for 30 days, and possibly longer has led to the speculation of Brooklyn Nets star Kevin Durant potentially returning for the playoff stretch — whenever that may be. Yet Durant’s camp isn’t so in line with that speculation. “Honestly, not very realistic from my standpoint, and not […]

With the 2019-20 NBA season at a halt, Spencer Dinwiddie had a little fun with Brooklyn Nets teammate Kevin Durant after the latter chronicled some of his early high school days. A fan took notice of a tweet showcasing Durant’s elite crossover dribble and took to social media to ask him just how he developed […]

The betting aspects of the NBA season are still in effect, even if the 2019-20 season has been suspended, perhaps even for several months. Bettors have taken a leap of faith with the Brooklyn Nets, according to Frankie Taddeo of Sports Illustrated — considering the lengthy suspension of the season could be enough for the […]

In the midst of the coronavirus outbreak, many NBA players have resorted to some quirky activities during this halt of the regular season. Trae Young of the Atlanta Hawks was nostalgic due to the sudden stop, opting to watch some of his high school highlights to pass the time. Young admitted to going back to […]

Donovan Mitchell spoke at length about his coronavirus diagnosis for the first time, including what the “scariest part” of contracting it is. The Utah Jazz star was the second player to test positive with the virus, following teammate Rudy Gobert on Wednesday. Mitchell appeared on “Good Morning America” through video conference, telling his side of […]

The NBA is bracing for a potential return in mid-to-late June as a target to resume the rest of the 2019-20 season as the best-case scenario, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. The league initially suspended play for what would be two weeks, a timeline that quickly transformed into 30 days with the growing expectation for […]

The NCAA Tournament has been canceled for both men’s and women’s Division 1 basketball in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic: NCAA cancels remaining winter and spring championships: https://t.co/qzKAS4McEI pic.twitter.com/G6XreZx35E — NCAA (@NCAA) March 12, 2020 Major conferences had preceded this move by canceling their tournaments on Thursday. The American Athletic Conference was the first domino […]

Oklahoma City Thunder players and staff will be administered coronavirus tests after potentially being exposed to the virus Wednesday prior to tipping off a game against the Utah Jazz, according to ESPN’s Royce Young. Thunder staffers and their players were advised to self-quarantine for a period of 24 hours to allow any potential viral infection […]

Major League Baseball has decided to suspend spring training and delay the start of the regular season by at least two weeks amid concerns for the outbreak of the coronavirus: MLB is Pushing start of season back by minimum of two weeks and will continue to monitor and see when is best to resume. Spring […]

The National Hockey League decided to suspend operations due to concern for the recent outbreak of the coronavirus, the league announced Thursday.  The league is hoping to resume play sometime in the spring, though the situation remains fluid, according to ESPN’s Emily Kaplan. “In light of ongoing developments resulting from the coronavirus, and after consulting […]

Members of the Cleveland Cavaliers’ medical staff believe Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell of the Utah Jazz contracted the coronavirus after their visit to Cleveland on March 2, according to Chris Fedor of cleveland.com. The Cavs have been in constant touch with the Jazz, even after none of their players showed any symptoms of the […]

The United States Soccer Federation has canceled the upcoming US Men’s National Team and US Women’s National Team games in March and April due to the uncertainty surrounding the spread of coronavirus. Along with those games come the majority of Youth National Team and Extended National Team matches and camps that were planned through the […]

Less than 24 hours after Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert tested positive for the coronavirus, his teammate Donovan Mitchell did as well — the only other case out of 58 people tested for the virus. While their immediate teammates and employees are in the clear, Gobert and Mitchell visited two non-NBA gyms before testing positive. […]

The New York Knicks were put on blast Wednesday after a report from ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski named them as one of the teams opposed to playing NBA games without fans in the stands in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. Added to that list are the Houston Rockets and the Indiana Pacers, now composing 10% […]

Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell has tested positive for the coronavirus, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Jazz players said privately that Rudy Gobert, who tested positive for the virus on Wednesday, had been careless in the locker room touching other players and their belongings. Mitchell was the only Jazz player or personnel member to test […]

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is expecting the recent suspension of the 2019-20 NBA season to resume at some point. The outspoken Mavs owner conceded he does not expect the season to be canceled, just postponed, with the possibility of some games going into August. “Hopefully this virus runs its course during the next 60 […]

The Washington Wizards have decided to self-quarantine in the wake of the NBA’s decision to suspend operations for the next two weeks due to the coronavirus outbreak, the team announced on Thursday. “Under the direction of team and MedStar medical staff, the Washington Wizards have advised players, coaches and basketball operations personnel to self-quarantine for […]

TNT analyst Charles Barkley called for the cancellation of March Madness after the recent coronavirus pandemic forced the hand of many sporting leagues across the country: “Turner Sports and CBS got to close down March Madness, man, because you can’t have these players — even if there’s no fans in the stadium — you can’t […]

At least five NBA teams are being told to self-quarantine as a fallout from the league’s decision to suspend the 2019-20 season due to the coronavirus outbreak, according to ESPN’s Brian Windhorst and Tim Bontemps. The Toronto Raptors, Detroit Pistons, Boston Celtics, New York Knicks, and the Cleveland Cavaliers all have one thing in common: […]

Chicago Bulls rookie Coby White made his first NBA start in a 108-103 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Tuesday. The North Carolina product dropped 20 points, five rebounds, and five assists, but also put up a game-worst nine turnovers in his first starting nod. The 20-year-old gave his thoughts on this first experience, doing […]

The Golden State Warriors plan to play Thursday’s game against the Brooklyn Nets with no fans in attendance after an edict from the City of San Francisco hopes to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, the team announced on Wednesday. All events at the Chase Center through Mar. 21 will be canceled or postponed while […]