The Golden State Warriors dealt with a team-wide meningitis scare in March last season that forced the team to take quick action, according to The Athletic's Sam Amick .
According to Amick, an outside vendor who handled the team's food contracted the disease and survived a life-threatening scare, eventually returning to work.
However, when the Warriors learned of the incident, members of the organization got vaccines, they moved a practice from their practice facility to Oracle Arena while the facility was sanitized, and the team dining room was temporarily shut down. According to Amick, a doctor also came in and spoke to the team about taking precautions.
The Warriors' G League team, the Santa Cruz Warriors, were even made aware of the situation, which Amick reports hit its peak over a three-day period from March 11-14 and included two games.
The Warriors didn't comment on Amick's story.
According to Amick, the incident was what prompted now-retired reserve forward David West's cryptic comments after the Warriors won the Finals.
"People don't even know what we went through," West said in June. "They trying to find out … Y'all got no clue. No clue. That tells you about this team that nothing came out."
At the time, the comments were interpreted as a hint at inner-turmoil, perhaps infighting, as the team experienced this year with Draymond Green and Kevin Durant.
There was reportedly a normal amount of that, but West's comments were more directed toward the meningitis scare. The incident only added to a stretch where the Warriors lost 10 of their final 17 games, sometimes getting blown out, while Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson suffered through injuries.
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Luckily, nobody else contracted the disease, and the Warriors acted quickly to keep it under control.
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