The Last Week Tonight host looks into the suspension of sports, and how – or if – they can return safely during a pandemic
If you think back to the day Americans first realized “our lives were going to fundamentally change for awhile”, said John Oliver on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, it probably involved sports. It was likely to be either the day the Utah Jazz all-star Rudy Gobert jokingly rubbed his hands over reporters’ microphones, mocking the threat of coronavirus, or when, two days later, Gobert and his teammates tested positive for the virus and the NBA season was abruptly and indefinitely suspended.
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