He’s been doing great.Įverything we’d read about COVID-19 just seemed so bleak for someone his age, with his medical history.īut everything that’s happened with me and my dad has also just been really confusing and tough to fully understand. My dad experienced no symptoms with the virus. My whole family was expecting the worst, waiting for it. Everything we’d read about COVID-19 just seemed so bleak for someone his age, with his medical history. He has a long history of respiratory issues, including six or seven bouts with walking pneumonia over the years. And at that point, I’m not gonna lie: That had me frightened.
Not too long after that, my dad called me up from Texas and told me that he had tested positive, too. Out of all of us – players and coaches and managers and … everyone. What I wasn’t ready for was … our doctor calling me up and telling me that I was the only damn person on the whole team who tested positive. I felt fine, though, so I was completely confident that I would beat the virus. I knew right away what he was gonna tell me.
When we finally made it back to Boston and got tested, none of us had any symptoms, but I figured bad news was coming for us.
When the news came down about the shutdown, and about everyone in the league getting tested, I already had a bad feeling. Now not only is the season on hold, not only might our whole team have the coronavirus because we’d all hung out at my birthday party, but also … we have to quarantine and spend an extra night in what is basically a haunted house from Scooby-Doo. Staying in … yep, you guessed it … that creepy-ass haunted hotel they have there. And to top it off, the kicker was that we were in Milwaukee at that point. Between that Jazz game and my party, it was like … Our whole team is gonna test positive. So when the news came down about the shutdown, and about everyone in the league getting tested, I already had a bad feeling. About my experience with COVID-19, the pandemic as a whole, and the ongoing movement for racial justice in this country - about how all those things overlapped.įor starters, my experience with the coronavirus was definitely one for the books.Įxactly five days before the league shut things down, we just happened to play Rudy Gobert and the Jazz … and my girlfriend threw a surprise birthday party for me with all of my teammates present. But I also thought a lot about this moment we’re all living through right now. I could actually just sit there alone and….Īnd it may sound corny or whatever, but over those few months I was really able to step back and take some time to learn more about myself - what I truly care about, what matters most to me.įamily, great friends, basketball, that stuff was on my mind, of course. Lots of stuff I had to worry about before - family drama, promotional stuff, places I had to be at such and such time - that was all out the window. I wasn’t expecting it, but after only four or five days down in Orlando, I realized that the bubble was a blessing, because it gave me the opportunity for some genuine downtime. Not the food, necessarily, or the atmosphere, or us not winning the whole thing in the end, but just the actual bubble part of it - the quiet. The bubble, it actually turned out to be … pretty damn great. I was totally ready for it to suck, I’m not gonna lie. I would’ve thought you were absolutely insane.Īnd look, when it actually happened, yes absolutely I was dreading living inside that damn bubble as much as anyone. When 2020 kicked off, if you’d told me about everything that was about to go down this year, and then said that I’d spend several months pretty much locked inside a bubble in the middle of Florida….
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