Like many others, Washington Wizards forward Rui Hachimura says that he could not have imagined anything like the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced the NBA to suspend its season.

But the Japanese rookie appeared to be in good spirits during a live video chat hosted on the team's official Twitter account on Tuesday night.

“It’s been crazy,” Hachimura said of the coronavirus that has thrown the world into crisis. “Obviously, I’ve never (gone through) stuff like that, never imagined things like that. But it is what it is and we have to stick together and help each other.”