The NBA suspended league operations last week moments after Utah Jazz All-Star center Rudy Gobert tested positive for COVID-19, the coronavirus. After an initial 30-day hiatus was installed by Commissioner Adam Silver and the Board of Governors, the wait for the 2019-20 NBA season appears to be extended further as more players are revealed to have coronavirus along with the spreading public-health crisis.

Silver, speaking to ESPN's Rachel Nichols on Wednesday, opened up to the league's handling of the coronavirus outbreak, along with discussing the possibility of innovative ways to keep basketball relevant while millions of individuals limit socializing, fearing spreading the virus.

Silver suggested a fundraiser game or games in an All-Star format, per ESPN's Dave McMenamin, so the NBA can televise basketball played by the healthy athletes while viewers stay quarantined at home.

Following Gobert's positive diagnosis, All-Star teammate shooting guard Donovan Mitchell also tested positive. The same week Detroit Pistons power forward Christian Wood tested positive and in the last two days four members of the Brooklyn Nets, including former MVP forward Kevin Durant, were positive too.

Several teams have reported their players are asymptomatic or have been tested and confirmed negative for rapidly spreading pandemic-level virus, COVID-19, but players, coaches, officials, and team staff have all been alert due to the public nature and close contact with already-confirmed contractors of coronavirus.

As of now the NBA season is suspended and may not resume until May or June. By then the league will have figured out whether to resume the rest of the season or not, possibly going to the playoffs, or maybe playing exhibition games, like Silver suggested, to pass the time.