A camera operator who shot footage inside the Utah Jazz locker room after a March 7 game in Detroit is medically induced in a coma after being diagnosed with coronavirus .

The game was played just four days before the NBA suspended the competition due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The information was released by friends of the cameraman through the local media. The man, approximately 50 years old, has worked for years as part of broadcast teams in NBA games at the "Little Caesars Arena" field.

During the Jazz-Pistons game, the cameraman was tasked with filming interviews in the locker room after the game. It is unknown where, when or how the television professional contracted the coronavirus . According to a friend of the affected cameraman, who goes by the name of Grov Tigue, the infected professional, whose name has not been given due to the right to medical privacy, began to feel ill approximately a week after the game.

Tigue explained that his friend had told him that when the home remedies did not work, on March 18, he decided to go to a hospital in the suburban area of ​​Detroit, where he lives. According to Tigue, the camera infected by the coronovirus sent him a text message informing him that they had put a mask on him in the exam room of the hospital.

"At 11:11 am, another sent me saying: They say 'my oxygen level is low . They want to raise it,'" Tigue explained. "But I still didn't have a diagnosis." "On Thursday I texted him about the (Darius) Slay trade (involving the Detroit Lions) and he replied at 1:18 pm" I'm still in the hospital. "

"On Saturday I wanted to contact him at 6:47 am and he responded at 3:48 pm He said," I'm going to be out of touch for a day or so. "Tigue said he later learned that the doctors They were putting him in a coma. "(The doctors) couldn't get his oxygen levels correct . They removed him from the coma yesterday, Tuesday, but they put him back, "Tigue reported.

The 'zero' party

The authorities shuffled that that game between Utah Jazz and Detroit Pistons has been the beginning of the contagion among NBA players. French center Rudy Gobert and shooting guard Donovan Mitchell, both of the Jazz, and Pistons power forward Christian Wood tested positive for coronavirus.

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