Charles Barkley tested negative for COVID-19 after showing symptoms of the virus on March 12.

One day after the NBA placed its season on hiatus as Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert tested positive for coronavirus, Barkley called into the NBA on TNT show to say he was ill and was submitting to a swab test. Barkley, 57, was present at the All-Star Game in Chicago less than a month earlier where Gobert and teammate Donovan Mitchell -- who also tested positive -- were also on the scene.

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