The sports world came to a stop five years ago today in Oklahoma City after the news broke that an NBA player had tested positive for COVID-19.

It's been five years since the NBA suspended the 2019-20 season because of the COVID-19 crisis. Everybody remembers when Rudy Gobert joked about the growing fear of the virus by touching microphones d ...

Five years ago today, the sports world came to a complete standstill after news broke out in Oklahoma City, shortly before tip-off of a game between the Thunder and Jazz, that an NBA player tested ...

The Thunder entered that date just one game behind the Jazz for a top-four seed in the Western Conference standings. It was billed as a critical game for OKC's chances of earning homecourt advantage ...

Salt Lake City's downtown visitation remains below pre-pandemic levels five years after COVID-19, but experts say it's ...

On March 11 (and for a while after), Gobert became public enemy No. 1 in the NBA. People blamed him for the league having a COVID outbreak, which was absurd in retrospect. We didn’t know what any of ...

The first indications the sports world could get swept up in the health crisis filtered out March 11, 2020, when the NBA announced it was suspending its season after Utah center Rudy Gobert tested ...

The subject line: "coronavirus outbreak ... then-Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert prepared to speak to reporters after a morning shootaround in Salt Lake City. In advance of a home game against ...

NPR reflects on the cascading events of March 11, 2020, the day the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic.