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The NBA season has been suspended indefinitely as of March 11 when Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert tested positive for COVID-19, followed by a myriad of other players and NBA figures, including New York Knicks owner James Dolan and former MVP Kevin Durant. However, several NBA players who contracted and subsequently overcome the coronavirus plan to donate their blood for an experimental treatment that could ultimately help high-risk patients to overcome the virus, according to Dr. Michael Joyner, a member of the leadership team of the National COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma Project. The procedure itself is a form of therapy that is called convalescent plasma. It works by utilizing the antibodies in the blood donated from recovered patients to fight the virus in patients that are sick.  Marcus Smart, poing guard for the Boston Celtics, confirmed he is one of the players planning to participate. Smart announced via social media that he had been cleared of the virus by the Massachusetts Dep