The Basketball League administration fears that if the closure is extended, it will be necessary to give up the top and bottom home games. • And will the Balkan solution work again?
Will the league be shortened?
Photography:
Oded Karni
Along with the pressure on the Ministries of Health and Sports to continue the games, the league administration is trying to deal with the implications of the decision to allow only training during the closure and not games for the continuation of the basketball season in Israel.
First, the administration is examining whether, as happened in the second closure during the months of September-October, the Balkan league games will allow the teams to continue with a relatively routine.
Due to this, the Balkan league games, which were intended to be played tonight, were postponed and will take place at the beginning of the week instead of the league games.
If the Ministry of Health approves, the administration may add games in the Balkans.
In addition, as the chairman of the administration, Shmuel Frenkel, wrote in his letter to the Minister of Sports, the administration has great concern that if the closure lasts longer than two weeks, it will be necessary to shorten the season and at the end of the second round. From such a move that will lead to high financial losses in front of the toto and the transmitting channel.
Those who can continue as normal as possible are Maccabi Tel Aviv, Hapoel Jerusalem, Hapoel Holon and Ness Ziona, which participate in Europe.
In recent days, there has been a possibility of holding training games between the teams in accordance with the guidelines of the Ministry of Health, in order to maintain a reasonable playing capacity at times created between the games in the European frameworks.
Also, there are still some teams trying to bring in new foreign players and there is a fear that the authorities will prevent foreign players from coming to Israel.
