(From the Editorial Board of DOUBLE YELLOW) The Ministries of Health and Tourism and Sports of the Nation authorized the restart of the National Basketball League (LNB) for this Friday, December 4.
As Double Yellow could know, the presentation of the latest documents on the sanitary protocol to the Nation’s portfolio remains, but the authorities have already received the ‘OK’ to specify the return. Further, the dispute format will be modified, after the outbreak of massive coronavirus infections in the bubbles.
From the 4th, the matches that remained to complete the North and South conferences will be played and from the 6th the system will be modified to cross the teams from both conferences, as explained by the media Básquet More. From that date, the positions will be unified in a general table.
The cut of the tournament in this 2020 will be on December 25 (24 will not be played either). The recess will last until mid-January. In the first month of 2021, the competition will resume, with meetings with fewer teams per zone, (there would be 5). The idea, according to the media, is for the clubs to play 38 regular series games; Meanwhile, in the case of matches suspended due to the coronavirus, they will be rescheduled in the first months of next year.
The best twelve will go to the playoffs: the first four will go directly to the quarterfinals and the remaining eight will play a reclassification. These matches will be played in April and the competition will end in May. The idea is that the series will be five games (final seven) and with local teams, without neutral venues.
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