Marco Baldi, managing director of the German basketball champions Alba Berlin, has sounded the alarm because of the renewed audience restrictions.
“The ball sports that are not football have a real problem – and an existential problem,” said the 59-year-old on the sidelines of the Bundesliga game against the Niners Chemnitz (83:62) MagentaSport.
The difficulty with the corona measures is currently that “it is only being reduced, but the help is not there. And if it stays that way, it will be gloomy,” said Baldi. The clubs have not yet received the prospect of any new government subsidies.
BBL President Alexander Reil hopes that will change. It must be “a bit of a matter of course” to talk about “a continuation of such aids”. He hoped “that there will be appropriate help”.
BBL President: “I thought we were further”
The chairman of the MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg sees the latest decisions in the fight against the pandemic with mixed feelings. “I thought we were further. Also in terms of the differentiation of measures,” said Reil: “If you value the exclusion of viewers a bit as a symbolic politics, in the hope that people will behave even more disciplined, then it be right. “
But it is “difficult, on the one hand, to report on overburdened hospitals and, on the other hand, to show pictures from stadiums or halls with up to 50,000 spectators”, says Reil, one has to differentiate more. “With a concept with 2G-Plus, the likelihood of infections being passed on is very low.” Politicians should “finally act strategically” in the next few weeks and months.
Alba-maker Baldi emphasized that in the crisis he was “not one of those who know everything better and who complain”. You have to “understand and understand these measures. I don’t want to judge whether all of this is correct. We are part of society and we also do our part.”
The table of the BBL
| place | TEAM | Sp. | S | N | Around | Diff. | Points |
| 1 | Bayern Munich | 9 | 7 | 2 | 740:662 | 78 | 14:4 |
| 2 | Telekom Baskets Bonn | 9 | 7 | 2 | 758:718 | 40 | 14:4 |
| 3 | Alba Berlin (M) | 9 | 6 | 3 | 747:653 | 94 | 12:6 |
| 4 | Hamburg Towers | 9 | 6 | 3 | 739:692 | 47 | 12:6 |
| 5 | MHP RIESEN Ludwigsburg | 9 | 6 | 3 | 725:690 | 35 | 12:6 |
| 6 | BG Göttingen | 8 | 5 | 3 | 612:619 | -7 | 10:6 |
| 7 | HAKRO Merlins Crailsheim | 9 | 5 | 4 | 817:762 | 55 | 10:8 |
| 8 | ratiopharm Ulm | 9 | 5 | 4 | 739:713 | 26 | 10:8 |
| 9 | Chemnitz 99ers | 9 | 5 | 4 | 684:708 | -24 | 10:8 |
| 10 | Brose Bamberg | 10 | 5 | 5 | 822:851 | -29 | 10:10 |
| 11 | medi Bayreuth | 8 | 4 | 4 | 658:647 | 11 | 8:8 |
| 12 | MLP Academics Heidelberg | 9 | 4 | 5 | 683:685 | -2 | 8:10 |
| 13 | JobStairs Giessen 46ers | 9 | 3 | 6 | 695:735 | -40 | 6:12 |
| 14 | s.Oliver Würzburg | 9 | 3 | 6 | 715:762 | -47 | 6:12 |
| 15 | SYNTAINICS MBC | 9 | 3 | 6 | 760:832 | -72 | 6:12 |
| 16 | Fraport Skyliners | 9 | 3 | 6 | 652:736 | -84 | 6:12 |
| 17 | BB Löwen Braunschweig | 9 | 2 | 7 | 782:831 | -49 | 4:14 |
| 18 | EWE Baskets Oldenburg | 10 | 2 | 8 | 799:831 | -32 | 4:16 |
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