Midday on Monday, March 9, 2020, Bleacher Report scribe and newly minted author Yaron Weitzman was kind enough to make time to speak with me on the phone. At this point, the NBA’s league office, board of governors and collective ownership counsel were merely in the fact-finding stage about what (if any) precautions needed to be taken as the virus COVID-19 (coronavirus) gradually spread. There were disparate murmurs of the potentiality of NBA games taking place without any fans in the crowd, if the virus continued to spread and large group gatherings became strictly prohibited. This was long before the Utah Jazz-Oklahoma City Thunder game was halted moments prior to tip-off, long before Rudy Gobert and then Donovan Mitchell were diagnosed with coronavirus, long before this:
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