Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell tests positive for COVID-19

Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell has tested positive for the coronavirus, per reports (Getty Images)

The spread of COVID-19 continues throughout the NBA, as this morning Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell tested positive for the coronavirus.

Jazz center Rudy Gobert was the first player in the league to test positive for the virus late Wednesday, postponing the tip-off of the Jazz playing the Thunder in Oklahoma City, and subsequently leading to the entire NBA suspending operations indefinitely.

ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reports Jazz players privately say Gobert was still making contact with his teammates and their belongings during the week. Now, a teammate has the virus.

Jazz star Donovan Mitchell has tested positive for the coronavirus, league sources tell ESPN. Jazz players privately say that Rudy Gobert had been careless in the locker room touching other players and their belongings. Now a Jazz teammate has tested positive.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) March 12, 2020

UPDATE: Per reports, Mitchell was the only member of the Jazz players and staff who were tested to contract the virus.

Sources: Donovan Mitchell was the only Jazz player/personnel to test positive for coronavirus out of 58 tests administered on Wednesday night. Remaining tests came back negative.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) March 12, 2020