Ex-Chicago Bulls HC Fred Hoiberg heads to hospital after showing symptoms
Former Chicago Bulls head coach Fred Hoiberg is reportedly headed to the hospital after showing symptoms in a Big Ten Tournament game.
A crazy day around the world of basketball finished off with the NBA putting their season on a hiatus and college hoops taking extreme precautions as well. An NBA announcement went into further detail on the suspension of the season, at least until there’s a plan in place. But this is starting to effect the basketball world at levels other than the NBA, including former Chicago Bulls head coach Fred Hoiberg.
The NBA season was put on hiatus since the Utah Jazz-Oklahoma City Thunder game was postponed after Mike Conley and Rudy Gobert showed symptoms early on. It turned out that Gobert would test positive for novel coronavirus.
Since seeing the door out of the Windy City, Hoiberg landed with the Nebraska Cornhuskers in the Big Ten as their head coach. But the Huskers didn’t find much success in Hoiberg’s first season at the helm. Nebraska entered the Big Ten Tournament as about the most undermanned team in the entirety of the field.
Utah Jazz All-Star Rudy Gobert has tested positive for coronavirus, sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium.
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) March 12, 2020
Sources say Gobert is feeling good, strong and stable — and was feeling strong enough to play tonight.
However, the Big Ten Tournament took center stage in the national headlines at Hoiberg would be reportedly taken to the hospital as he was showing flu symptoms. Social media was starting to get exposed to the symptoms that Hoiberg was showing on the bench for the Huskers in a Big Ten Tournament game on March 11.
Nebraska head coach Fred Hoiberg been taken to the hospital, source told @Stadium. Was sick, left the game early and was told to go to be checked out immediately. https://t.co/OPs1nmNTZg
— Jeff Goodman (@GoodmanHoops) March 12, 2020
Stadium was later told that Hoiberg was said to be “checked out immediately” after showing these symptoms. There is no word back yet as to the status of Hoiberg, but he is headed to the hospital to be tested.
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COVID-19 is having a profound impact on professional sports leagues all over the world, and college sports across the United States. College hoops was set to be played in front of limited audiences for a number of the conference tournaments and for the NCAA Tournament. This Hoiberg news just adds to that growing storyline.