Bucks vs Mavericks Live Free: By early March, most Americans were aware of the strange infectious virus spreading overseas. But for many it remained remote, foreign, vague — we were still going into offices and sending children to school and living life generally as we had before.

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That changed March 11. Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson announced they were being treated for coronavirus in Australia. The World Health Organization declared the outbreak a pandemic, warning the virus had been found on almost every continent.
But it was the National Basketball Association's March 11 decision to suspend the 2019-2020 season — following a single player's positive test — that truly hammered home to Americans the threat this virus posed.
"Sports was the canary in the coal mine," Pete Giorgio, a principal at Deloitte who leads the firm's US Sports Practice, told CNN Business. "[Coronavirus] wasn't 'real' in the US until then, in a way — it was a thing that was happening overseas. And then that quickly changed."