Why it only took one player with coronavirus to shutter sports:
for days, and road teams in the NBA and NHL often use the same locker room in opposing arenas. That means the NHL teams that played in Boston, New York and Detroit in the days following the Jazz’s visit to those cities and may have touched the same surfaces as either Gobert or Mitchell could conceivably be affected as well.
That’s 20 NBA teams and 10 NHL teams that have either been in at least one of the same arenas as the Jazz or played against a team that calls one of those arenas home during the period of time when Gobert and/or Mitchell may have already contracted the virus. Putting aside the relatively low probability of the virus spreading this way, the potential exposure of 30 of the 61 teams in two major sports leagues highlights exactly why games have been canceled for the foreseeable future.
Of course, all of these teams also participated in events beyond their games, including at locations beyond their home arenas, some of which also played host to other events. The Jazz
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