Bilbao Basket – Unicaja postponed due to positives in the Bilbao team

The match Surne Bilbao Basket – Unicaja, scheduled for this Wednesday (8:00 p.m.) and corresponding to matchday 15 of the Endesa League, has been postponed due to the “accumulation” of positive cases in covid-19 that affects the local team’s staff, the ACB reported on Tuesday afternoon in a statement.

Bilbao Basket already notified on Monday the appearance of 5 positives within the team, with two of them corresponding to players, without this preventing the dispute from the match. However, the Bilbao team passed new tests on Tuesday where new positives were detected, a fact that led to the postponement of the duel against the Andalusian team.

The ACB indicated that it will communicate shortly the new date for the dispute of this new party postponed by the coronavirus pandemic. With this are five meetings of this day that have been postponed by the covid-19.

Copa del Rey

The ACB has extended until January 30 the end of the first round of the Endesa League, and with it the qualification for the Copa del Rey de Granada 2022, which is played from February 17 to 20, so that the matches postponed due to positive cases in clubs due to the pandemic.

In the Assembly of said body held this Monday, the clubs have unanimously agreed to “extend a maximum until January 30” the date scheduled for the end of the first round, day 17, and qualification for the Copa del Rey de Granada 2022 , “thus facilitating the recovery of postponed matches and competitive equality” between all teams.

In the event that on January 30 all the scheduled matches could not be played, the ACB will take as the main criterion for qualifying for the Copa del Rey “the percentage between wins and losses” as of that date “, computing only the corresponding matches. to the first round “.