NBA fans have spent more than four months and the Utah Jazz players know exactly how it feels to have the game stripped from them, as their matchup with the Oklahoma City Thunder never came to be as the league postponed the rest of the 2019-20 season. Donovan Mitchell, who was one of the first two players to test positive for the novel coronavirus, revealed it was “one of the scariest experiences” to happen in his life.

Mitchell, who was tested for the virus along with the rest of his teammates, staff, and present personnel, noted it was a sleepless night wondering if he had been infected:

“I slept about 20 minutes that whole night,” said Mitchell during a Bleacher Report exclusive: Inside the Night the NBA Shut Down. “8:30 in the next morning, that's when I found out that I had it. One of the scariest experiences of my life.

My biggest concern is that I had just seen my mother and my sister, four, five days before that. And I called them, ‘look you have to test tested right away.'”

The Jazz star also revealed there was itching anxiety that came with testing positive, not knowing when or if the symptoms would come:

“I went back home and I had to separate myself from my family. I'm in the basement by myself and I have no windows in my basement. you don't know if it's 4 p.m. or 4 a.m.

It's Monday, will [the symptoms] come on Tuesday? It's Tuesday, the temperature is the same, will it come on Wednesday? Wednesday, will it come on Thursday? I was there for 10, 11 days.”

As it turned out, Mitchell was asymptomatic, but the grueling process of isolating from his family was enough to make him sick to his stomach. His teammate Rudy Gobert, who was the first to test positive, only had about 80% of his sense of smell back after contracting the virus.

Mitchell, who spoke several times in the video, said he wished people would take the virus more seriously — something that still appears to be a problem after COVID-19 has brought the majority of the world to its knees.