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As Native Americans fight coronavirus, basketball takes a timeout

(John Locher | AP file photo) Students play basketball at Little Singer Community School in Birdsprings, Ariz., on the Navajo Nation in September 2014. Basketball is woven in the fabric of Native American life. Now, during a global pandemic, the balls have all but stopped bouncing. Already hit hard by the coronavirus outbreak, Native Americans are faced with life without basketball — or any other sport — for the foreseeable future.