Munich (dpa) - The location for the final tournament of the basketball Bundesliga to determine the German champions has been determined, but many questions before the event are still open.
So the exact mode should not be decided until Wednesday. "It is difficult, we have to accommodate a relatively large number of games. We do not want to overload the players and do not have much time," said BBL Managing Director Stefan Holz of the German Press Agency.
After all, the league decided on Munich as the venue for the roughly three-week event, in which ten clubs in two groups of five with subsequent playoffs want to end the season that has been interrupted since mid-March due to the Corona crisis. FC Bayern prevailed against Berlin, Frankfurt and Bonn, who had also shown interest in the event.
Now the basketball players as well as the football players are looking forward to Wednesday when Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) will again consult with the Prime Minister about further easing. This time it should also be about sport. If professional soccer gets the green light for a season continuation, the basketball players also hope for positive signals from politicians and authorities.
Holz did not want to overestimate the fact that there was a lot of fuss about ten positive Corona tests in football and a Facebook video of the now suspended Hertha professional Salomon Kalou on Monday. "I don't see chaos, on the contrary. It is a very serious approach by the DFL," said the BBL managing director. The fact that "a few positives come out of 1700 tests is a purely statistical question," said Holz. "That's why you test to find the positive ones." The basketball players also want to test their pros regularly before continuing the season.
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