By Kevin Estrada
The ASEAN Basketball League has decided to reschedule fifteen of its games due to the travel restrictions brought by the outbreak of the 2019 novel Coronavirus (nCoV) in certain countries.
In an email sent by CEO Jericho Ilagan, those games covered the period between February 8 and March 1, with the non-ASEAN based teams covered the bulk of the postponed games.
Two of those, Hong Kong Eastern and Formosa Dreamers, are the most affected of the postponement, with the former seeing all of their five away games being scratched for a moment. The Taiwanese side had all four home games being affected.
Also, Thailand’s Mono Vampire and Vietnam’s Saigon Heat will have to wait as their respective pair of homestands will be moved as well.
With that said, the February schedule of San Miguel Alab Pilipinas will have one less game on it, as the league postpones its supposed first meeting with the Macau Black Bears on February 16 in Sta. Rosa, Laguna.
See complete list of rescheduled games:
- Formosa Dreamers vs Hong Kong Eastern, originally scheduled on February 8, 2020, to be played at the Changhua County Stadium, Changhua, Taiwan
- Kuala Lumpur Dragons vs Macau Black Bears, originally scheduled on February 9, 2020, to be played at the MABA Stadium, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
- Formosa Dreamers vs Hong Kong Eastern, originally scheduled on February 9, 2020, to be played at the Changhua County Stadium, Changhua, Taiwan
- Mono Vampire Basketball Club vs Macau Wolf Warriors, originally scheduled on February 9, 2020, to be played at the Stadium 29, Bangkok, Thailand
- Mono Vampire Basketball Club vs Macau Black Bears, originally scheduled on February 12, 2020, to be played at the Stadium 29, Bangkok, Thailand
- Macau Wolf Warriors vs Hong Kong Eastern, originally scheduled on February 12, 2020, to be played at the Zhongshan Shaxi Gymnasium, Zhongshan, China
- Saigon Heat vs Hong Kong Eastern, originally scheduled on February 15, 2020, to be played at the CIS Arena, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- Saigon Heat vs Macau Wolf Warriors, originally scheduled on February 16, 2020, to be played at the CIS Arena, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- San Miguel Alab Pilipinas vs Macau Black Bears, originally scheduled on February 16, 2020, to be played at the Sta. Rosa Multi Purpose Sports Complex, Sta. Rosa, Laguna
- Macau Wolf Warriors vs Macau Black Bears, originally scheduled on February 19, 2020, to be played at the Zhongshan Shaxi Gymnasium, Zhongshan, China
- Formosa Dreamers vs Macau Wolf Warriors, originally scheduled on February 22, 2020, to be played at the Changhua County Stadium, Changhua, Taiwan
- Formosa Dreamrs vs Macau Wolf Warriors, originally scheduled on February 23, 2020, to be played at the Changhua County Stadium, Changhua, Taiwan
- Taipei Fubon Braves vs Macau Wolf Warriors, originally scheduled on February 29, 2020, to be played at the Taipei Heping Basketball Gymnasium, Taipei, Taiwan
- Macau Black Bears vs Hong Kong Eastern, originally scheduled on February 29, 2020
- Taipei Fubon Braves vs Macau Wolf Warriors originally scheduled on March 1, 2020, to be played at the Taipei Heping Basketball Gymnasium, Taipei, Taiwan
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