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When the Utah Jazz Center Rudy Gobert tested positive for COVID-19 in mid-March, the entire sports landscape changed. The result not only ended the NBA season immediately – which is still on the way back – but also caused other sports like NHL, NFL, MLB and others to be seriously interested in testing their players and figuring out how you maneuver these unsafe maneuvers.
Fast forward three months, and sports fans are still wondering what lies ahead. Sure, the NBA is planning to restart in late July and MLB has approved a season with 60 games, but there are still so many questions about security and logistics. There is also the following: Rudy Gobert has symptoms from his positive test three months ago.
After his positive test in March, Gobert mentioned some of the strange things he experienced due to COVID-19 – like the loss of taste and smell. When I spoke to the French newspaper recently The teamHe announced that he was still experiencing something similar three months later. Doctors said it could take a year for his smell to fully recover.
“The taste has returned, but the smell is still not 100%. I can smell smells, but not from a distance. I spoke to specialists who told me it could take up to a year (to get back to normal). “
Puppy, that’s scary as hell. It just means what we probably all knew: That this damn virus is an unpredictable AF, and even those who are asymptomatic or who don’t need medical treatment still have persistent symptoms. If this kind of thing happens to an elite professional athlete like Rudy Gobert, it will surely happen to the average Joe, who unfortunately gets infected with the virus.
Although there is a lot of optimism that the NBA will return in about a month, it is a warning sign that the league and everyone else cannot ignore if Gobert says he is still dealing with symptoms.
(H / T The Big Lead)
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