Utah Jazz have avoided omicron longer than any other NBA team, but they know it’s ‘an inevitability’

With the virus widespread in the league, Utah coach Quin Snyder calls it a “knock-on-wood situation.”

As of Wednesday night, Utah was the only team without a positive COVID test from a player or coach in the past month.When asked about his team’s health amid a spike in cases around the league, Jazz coach Quin Snyder said he doesn’t feel a particular point of pride about the team’s spotless record. Instead, he said, it’s more reflective of good luck than good hygiene.

Even in the best-case scenario that the Jazz were all vaccinated and boosted, it might be reasonable to expect 25% of the team’s players to get infected by omicron at some point, given how pervasive it has been in the NBA community. Fully 90% of the league’s cases recent cases were due to omicron, according to NBA Commissioner Adam Silver in an ESPN interview last week.• We know that all Jazz players were vaccinated, according to Jazz general manager Justin Zanik before the season began.

But we don’t know which other players have had COVID. On paper, it’s less than any other team in the league, but in practice, well, sicknesses have escaped detection before. Given all of these confounding variables, it’s extremely unlikely that the Jazz will be able to escape a positive test with omicron.

But even with that handful of folks not traveling, there’s no shortage of potential infectors. Only Toronto has scaled back on fans in arenas; every other team still has hundreds of folks in close proximity of the players for the game’s duration. Opponents could do the job too — the Jazz played Minnesota’s D’Angelo Russell on Thursday, for example, one day before he tested positive.

Certainly wasn't for the gentleman with his nose uncovered. YUP lotta stupid people out there, watch your step and avoid.

Proud of the Jazz.

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How many players had a prior infection?

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