JOe Ingles entered the NBA’s health and safety protocols last Tuesday, being the first Jazz player to be affected by the coronavirus this season. The Utah team was the only team in the league so far that had not yet had any affected players.
The other 29 teams had had at least one of their troops quarantined at some point in the past three weeks during this outbreak, and many of them placed more than 10 players on that list.
The number of players on the protocols has dropped considerably in recent days, peaking at 125 last week and dropping to 75, according to the latest released figures. It is likely that, now that most teams are overcoming their respective shoots, one will start in the Jazz.
Curiously, in Utah, in the figure of Rudy Gobert, the first coronavirus outbreak began, which forced the suspension of the 2019-20 season, which had to be ended in the bubble created at Disney World. Now, the Jazz have been the last to have a positive.