I look back at the stupidity of his actions at the time and his positive test. I wonder if that hadn't have happened if there would have been such a dominoe effect of strong responses.

How is his health now? I mean wasn't the whole nba infected?

SoupNazi2001 said:

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Not very many NBA guys got it and the ones who did had very mild symptoms.

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Good that he and the others got it, shows that guys bounced right back.

Detmersdislocatedshoulder said:

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I look back at the stupidity of his actions at the time and his positive test. I wonder if that hadn't have happened if there would have been such a dominoe effect of strong responses.

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Spot on. I said the same thing last night at dinner.
When the NBA freaked out and instantly shut down, it made it expected and the right thing to do for everyone else to freak out and over react.

A lot of NBA players are childish and snowflake bed wetters. Golbert is clearly childish.
And some NBA player said last week on on Good Morning America that he hadn't touched a basketball in 1 MONTH!! This guy is PAID to play basketball. It's his JOB. But he's decided to use this coronavirus craziness as an excuse to freakout, wet the bed, and not do anything.

These lazy snow flake bed wetters are BAD BAD BAD. And there's more and more of them.

My fantasy basketball team would not have led the league in blocked shots without Rudy Gobert.

If it wasn't Rudy it would have been an NHL player, or NCAAB player etc. The end was clearly coming, he just sped up the timetable a bit.

That's still the problem with restarting sports in the fall. If someone playing tests positive, what do you do? With their team, the teams they have played etc. And why a vaccine or treatment that makes the symptoms non-life threatening for a greater number of people is needed before anything starts up. Nothing will be "normal" until that happens.

I believe it was 13 other NBA players that got it. All have recovered.

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I believe it was 13 other NBA players that got it. All have recovered.

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By proving their cluelessness.

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He just proves how irrelevant and useless pro sports are in our daily lives.

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How did he prove that?

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A lot of us haven't missed any of them one damn bit.

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You were previously unaware that you didn't care about pro sports?

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Sure, but now I'm even more aware of just how little I actually miss it.

Before this, it was "I bet I wouldn't miss it".... now I know I don't.

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It was just a joke that turned out to be bad taste. Have to admit, at the time I laughed. He's fine, no one died b/c of him, and we have no proof he was patient zero in the NBA at all. People saying he is dumb or excited he had it b/c of his joke are over sensitive about it and are using the lens hindsight when the vast majority of us probably giggled after he did it initially.

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Why? This is the guy that touched the mics, rights?

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I miss baseball. A LOT

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Me too, but glad they're not playing right now. Since I'm working from home, I would likely just watch baseball all day and not get any work done.

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I honestly didn't and still don't have an issue with what he did rubbing the mics. At the time no one here for the most part knew how easily it could spread and he had no clue he had it. It was just a joke that turned out to be bad taste. Have to admit, at the time I laughed. He's fine, no one died b/c of him, and we have no proof he was patient zero in the NBA at all. People saying he is dumb or excited he had it b/c of his joke are over sensitive about it and are using the lens hindsight when the vast majority of us probably giggled after he did it initially. Again, we are talking about a virus that 97-98% of us won't be much more affected by than he was. Heck, I didn't think he even needed to apologize at all. Our society is too sensitive sometimes.

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How do you know no one died because of it? You have no idea who he spread it to that then spread it to other people that may have died. An NBA player's mom died.

Now I get that he didn't do it on purpose so he shouldn't be crucified. But looking back on it shouldn't be that oh the way he acted was no big deal. It was disrespectful even if was just any random sickness IMO.

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I can respect that. I'm just more laid back I guess. I knew a lot of people that laughed at the time. Many just thought this would blow over as much to do about nothing. Sometimes people are wrong and make mistakes.

His touching the mics wasn't the reason a mother of an NBA player died. Doubt she had much contact directly or indirectly with media personnel. Now whether he was good or bad in the locker room is different. But it doesn't sound like he was bad after diagnosed. Before, there wasn't a social distancing policy even in place. Our gym was open and it was b4 the NBA shut down. After all of that, sure. Bad judgment at the time? Definitely. But he's not worth making a scapegoat about either. Also, I do think there's this strange attitude by the media when they interview those who have been infected. You'd think they'd been diagnosed with stage 3 cancer. When every person interviewed was either already over it or successfully fighting it off. No, it's NOT the flu, but again, for 97-98% of us, it's not much different in terms of how it sick it makes us. Heck, from what I've read, heard and seen, the flu was worse on most if they'd have had both. Covid is worse or the same on comorbid people infected. Hence why we needed to flatten the curve to keep the hospitals from being overrun in certain areas. But it's not at all near a death sentence for the vast majority. As in the distance between Earth and the Andromeda Galaxy distance. So when they interview young healthy individuals who have had Covid and the interviewer act sort of dramatic in terms of how he or she questions the "surviving" person, I do roll my eyes. They most cases down play what they've had, say they had a mild fever, felt like crap for a few days and got better. No different then when they had a cold or flu in that regard.

I just get tired of how we all want to overstate this at times when it is serious enough that there's no need to overstate it, and when we have to vilify someone after the fact for something that at the time was innocent. Poor judgment but not worth all this hate now. And the possibility of potentially having someone die is so circumstantial that's it's really not worth being up, IMO.

SoupNazi2001 said:

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Not very many NBA guys got it and the ones who did had very mild symptoms.

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This is a weird statement considering like 10-20% of them got it. WAY more than that typical population.

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SoupNazi2001 said:

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Not very many NBA guys got it and the ones who did had very mild symptoms.

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Good that he and the others got it, shows that guys bounced right back.

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While I'm glad they did, I feel like the fact that elite athletes recovered from something doesn't necessarily translate as meaningful to the most of the population.

But it's meaningful for getting sports back.

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But it's meaningful for getting sports back.

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Good point. And I hope so.