TUESDAY 17TH MARCH 2020 5
PM
Basketball England has taken the decision to cancel all affiliated basketball activity for the remainder of the 2019/20 season because of the coronavirus pandemic.
This action has been taken in consultation with the BBL, WBBL, Basketball Scotland and Basketball Wales, BUCS and the AoC Sport and comes in light of increased measures to fight the spread of the virus issued by government on Monday.
It means the following activities are cancelled:
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Basketball England’s leagues; NBL, affiliated Local Leagues, Jr. NBA, the EABL, WEABL and ABL Finals, the Dynamik National Schools competitions.
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England national team activity, talent programmes including Aspire, Basketball England education courses.
If the situation and government advice changes, and there is opportunity to reinstate any basketball activity, we will consider this.
We will continuously monitor the situation and review the position to restart activity and gear up for the 2020/21 season and provide an update no later than 28 April 2020.
13th March 2020
Hi All
In line with the BE initiative, Webba have now suspended the league for an initial two-week period because of the coronavirus outbreak.
Obviously the situation world wise is very significant so there is no guarantee that the league will be resumed at the end of this initial two-week period but we will continue to follow BE guidance as to the next stage of what happens
Hopefully when the situation dies down we can look at a variety of options which may or may not allow us to complete the leagues or maybe offer a couple of tournaments to round the season off.
Obviously everything is dependant on what happens and we must do everything we can to mitigate the transmission risk and suspending the league is the appropriate course of action at the present time
Thank You
Brendan
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