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I thought this was something to do with the corona again, but I was not, I search the name Jamal NBA in google and I find out what you are talking, it was sex scandal of him and his GF, where its funny as his GF is asking to delete the video, well she has no idea that it will remain forever online once its uploaded. Here are some articles regarding that.

https://www.cinemablend.com/television/2493037/nba-star-jamal-murray-says-he-was-hacked-after-graphic-sex-video-was-posted-to-social-media

https://talentrecap.com/oops-nba-star-jamal-murrays-sx-tape-leaks-his-girlfriend-requests-please-delete-it/

Damn Jamal. I don't think he was hacked. It was his mistake, he just don't want everyone to know it.
Just because we are in quarantine doesn't mean we have to do such bad acts.  
And he did it on the best time of the world where everyone is at home using internet.
I bet he got a lot of slap from his girl by now.  

Why do they misbehave during this time. Why not make some good videos instead to help out.
Like how to exercise or something else to keep your body healthy.
Is that one of the ways?

This virus were already spreading in the US even before Gobert was test positive, maybe those popular people got positive, it  called the attention of the world and the those people they encountered were immediately got tested. If you look at the number of cases in the US, it's been increasing rapidly, we are sad now due to what is happening, so it's understandable that some people are blaming other people but all these will be over as soon as the vaccine are found, let's pray for this and help each other for now.

Not angry at all but they are just disappointed. But I believed they are all move on. Who's angry?

There's no room to be angry about something that a person can't control. They must understand it's not intentional.

We didn't even know who's the first infected NBA player. Take example on Brooklyn Nets and Los Angeles Lakers, they have confirmed cases but in the span of over a month, if I'm not mistaken, they never faced the Utah Jazz.

Although its very unfortunate to on what happen to him but still you cannot blame people to get angry with him especially on how he deal those things when he's not infected, but the incident happens and for sure all those things will settle up since for sure there management will do their best to make sure that their valuable assets will get back in shape.

There is no sanction here because he didn't violate anything, he maybe childish a bit, but that's it, there is no time to play the blame games now, they should help the government in any way to find the cure of this pandemic.


He is childish but he has this kind heart, we know their salary will be cut off if the season will be cancelled and yet he are still helping donating a huge money. Thank you Gobert for this, hopefully more players will help instead of blaming anyone for something.

That exactly right. It's unfair to Gobert if the community will put all the blame on him. He's the first NBA player who got tested so there's a chance that there's another player who got it first but not just shows the symptoms. No way Gobert will do it on purpose.

I praised the NBA for their early stand about Gobert's issue and will not impose disciplinary action on him. I can't imagine the stress that it will bring to Gobert.

Rudy Gobert will not face NBA discipline for actions prior to diagnosis

Sooner or later, there is a big chance that some NBA players might get the infection, it just so happen that Rudy was the first one to get it. Yes, he could be embarrassed as he spread the virus that causes the NBA season to be cancelled for the time being.

But giving him what penalty? I guess that's an exaggeration. He even try to mend things by donation $500,000 to help health organisations.


https://twitter.com/utahjazz/status/1238919215865716736

Who would be on right mind to do it on purpose? I dont see for it to be imposed some penalty or some sort because no one would like it to happen.
Detecting the virus on early stage is the hardest part specially if its Asymptomatic or doesnt show any symptoms.So its not actually right to have that kind of act towards him.

Don't you think that you are exaggerating there quite a bit? He didn't know he was sick, it could have happened to everyone. And it happened to so many people who didn't know that they were infected and they kept on with business as usual. How else do you think virus spread so much? Even you might have it without knowing and showing no symptoms, and spread it to others.  After all, he got it from someone else as well.

Sure, his stupid joke backfired and it was irresponsible of him to do that, no one denies  that, but no need to crucify him now. NBA season would have been stopped with or without him, and it is better that it happened sooner than later.

You can even look at it from a  different perspective, here is one article how his irresponsible behavior  maybe  even helped for this Corona virus story to get attention in the United States, stopping all NBA games (before his case team owners rejected proposal of pausing the season) and preventing even more people getting infected.
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/sports/columnist/nancy-armour/2020/03/15/coronavirus-rudy-goberts-immaturity-covid-19-helped-us-all/5054323002/

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In the other news,  Chinese Basketball Association plans to continue their season next month, but  without fans. There are few ex NBA players there as well. CBA  wants to kinda force players to return and continue with season by threatening all players who don't do that with 3 year ban.
https://www.si.com/nba/cavaliers/nba-amico/chinese-basketball-association-nba-news

Right after the NBA was suspended due to Corona Virus' first case in the league, I also feel the same to Gobert just like you.

But as days passed, I come to think, are we sure he's aware of his status prior to testing? It's hard to judge that he did it on purpose. He's one of the reasons why Utah Jazz somehow maintains its stand on the West. He is part of the rebuilding that Jazz did. I know he will not do anything bad for the team.

He is really careless but I have now realized that he isn't really aware that he is already positive with the Virus as there is no way he will know that. The test was just done because medical staff recommended it. He is healthy on that day where the NBA was suspended its season.

 Yeah I have seen that talk as well, they are just kids man, lets be honest if we had that much success, that much money and that much women around us, we would definitely do something as silly as this at that age lol. I know I totally would, I mean I didn't had his looks, his height, his skills, his money, his success and I almost did something like that as well Thankfully it didn't got out and was the earlier snapchat where it was deleted in seconds but we were all kids at technology age so I am not really shocked.

 In other regards, Rudy should be really emberassed now, he DID something really bad, he risked everyones life and the people they know so it was seriously disgusting what he did, I know he is young and an idiot as well but dude probably caused tens of infections when you look at the bigger picture like people he infected that infected others that infec.. like that. So I think he should at least get a penalty or something, I hope he will learn his lesson harshly.

Yeah i got your point bro and youre right that all is still optional and would depend into their decision by the management.Things that do involve charity is always been good.

This pathetic virus had affect all sorts of things and hope this would end up soon because i cant imagine on what would happen even more if this would last for several months
or the worst would last up for years until the cure or vaccine would already be available.

I had to google it to see  what happened with Jamal Murray, i thought it's something serious. 
So, some explicit video of Jamal and probably his GF leaked on Instagram earlier today, and it seems that someone hacked his Instagram account. All videos are his account are deleted now.
https://www.complex.com/sports/2020/03/jamal-murray-nsfw-video-hacked-apologizes

As you said, he should have been more careful  and avoid making these kind of videos since he is public person, and therefore target of such hacks.  But these things happened in the past so many times, and will happen in the future. Sure, it is embarrassing for them now, but with everything going on at the moment, it will be soon forgotten.

What Jamal Murray did was an unfortunate mistake that anybody could have done. I know that if you are even remotely smart you would try to refrain from even recording it, if you care about your privacy even a bit you would try to not use a mobile freaking phone to record at least, but it has happened to many people before and could still happen to many people from now on as well.

Definitely, it is embarrassing for him and his gf for now, but they will pass this, just move on and try to forget and people will forget in time as well.

Try to remember that these are still barely out of their teenager years, dude is just 23 years old and how many of us didn't made a mistake when we were 23 years old, maybe not in public, maybe it wasn't shared but think of all the closed doors nobody knows mistakes you have done that would ruin your life if it was made public so we should not shame him for a simple act that everyone around the world does.

Right, and as I have said, this is really a wake up call not just for NBA fans but the whole sports in general. You can't take risk and let fans watch the game and as they go home, we don't know, maybe they got the virus someone or not. Every other sporting events have cancelled their games, and its good the NBA is one of the first to do so because of the corona virus scare. As for the players, I think they understand the extend and would rather lose small portion of their salary.

Players can't make their decision here, they are paid so they need to follow the new rules just for the current situation.
If NBA would resume the season without fans, they don't have a choice but to play the game otherwise they will not be paid and their future might be compromise. However, as most of us would agree, this season is not likely to continue, it will be cancelled as we have a major emergency here, we need to focus on this rather than on the entertainment or the money the organization could generate.

According to the article players would loose only 1/92.6 of a seasonal  salary per cancelled game , and since 3/4 of the games have been played already that doesn't sound too bad. Especially since average NBA bench warmer makes way more than an average worker, let alone big stars, so they will survive this financial hit.
Everyone is at the loss here, so it makes sense that this financial hit is shared among everyone involved.

One thing got me thinking though: players said that they don't want to play games without fans. I wonder would possible salary cut change their  opinion as top paid players could loose 8-9 million USD, based on my quick napkin math.

I agree, this thing keeps getting worse by the day.  I think if there is NBA to be played again in 2020, it will likely be a very short season followed by playoffs.  Lots of contractual stuff gets really jacked up by cancelling it entirely.  BUT..they cancelled March Madness after all. Crazy crazy times we live in right now.

It wasn't said that it will be done now.
I think they will be cancelling the normal type of NBA game.
They will just use the remaining days to use it for charity.
Calm down my friend. Besides, it is still a charity which means it will be for something good.
It is still an option for now and they haven't decided yet what to do.

I guess they have a lot of options by now and will need the opinion of the whole NBA management.