Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert, the first NBA player to reportedly test positive for COVID-19 and who drew the ire of numerous people when the league initially suspended the season, says he is still not fully recovered more than three months after his original diagnosis.
On March 12, the Jazz confirmed that All-Star guard Donovan Mitchell also tested positive, with ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reporting at the time, “Jazz players privately say that Rudy Gobert had been careless in the locker room touching other players and their belongings.
That led to a reported rift between Gobert and Mitchell, though Utah executive vice president of basketball operations Dennis Lindsey said in May the two players were ready to “move on.”
The Jazz were in Oklahoma City when Gobert tested positive.
The Jazz are among the 22 teams who will take part when the NBA resumes the season at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex near Orlando, Fla., beginning next month.
