The question is a legitimate one: would most of the sports world have shut down had Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert not been diagnosed with coronavirus?
ESPN’s Scott Van Pelt, in his “1 Big Thing” segment from Thursday night, is “entirely convinced” that games and tournaments would have continued.
But here we are.
Van Pelt went on to talk about how perhaps we’ll look back down the road and wonder if all of these shutdowns were an overreaction.
“Or,” he added, “maybe the diagnosis of a big man from France did our country a huge favor. This much I know to be true: he hit the warp speed button on all of this. And by taking away the games which our society’s greatest gathering place and common ground, it forced everybody to take all of this a whole lot more seriously.”
Watch the entire segment below:
