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"I can't stress this enough. Rudy Gobert testing positive was the best thing that happened for the NBA. It arguably, in many ways, is the best thing that happened for this country.\xa0I don't think people were taking this seriously, Celine, until they found out an entity like the NBA could suspend its season because of the coronavirus.\u201d -Rohan Nadkarni\n\nIn this episode,\xa0our co-hosts Dr. Celine Gounder and Ron Klain speak to\xa0Rohan Nadkarni, Grant Wahl, and Peter King and look at the pandemic through the lens of basketball, soccer, and football to see how COVID is changing the way sports are played. They discuss what these games might look like for fans and players when they resume, how COVID is affecting the business of sports, and what the consequences are of trying to play sports in the middle of the pandemic. Grant Wahl is America's leading soccer journalist. He spent 24 years at Sports Illustrated, covering college basketball and soccer, and is the author of the New York Times bestseller, \u201c The Beckham Experiment,\u201d as well as \u201cMasters of Modern Soccer.\u201d Rohan Nadkarni covers basketball for Sports Illustrated. Peter King covers football for NBC Sports, is the author of five books, and has been named\xa0National Sportswriter of the Year\xa0three times.\n\nThis podcast was created by Just Human Productions. We're powered and distributed by Simplecast. We're supported, in part, by listeners like you.\n\n#SARSCoV2 #COVID19 #COVID #coronavirus