Federation of Uganda Basketball Associations (FUBA) is looking at all the possible options in regards to completing all activities on the 2020 National Basketball League calendar.
With government stretching the nationwide lockdown for another two weeks, FUBA have put out three options they will be considering whenever there's a green light for sporting activities to resume.
The domestic leagues had been scheduled to tip-off on the weekend of March 20th, which turned out to be the first day of the lockdown.
“Following the Presidential address of May 4th 2020 and the new guidelines/directives issued by the President, it appears that we shall not be able to start our calendar activities soon as earlier on anticipated,” reads a statement released by FUBA on Monday.
Depending on the new directives that will be issued at the end of the 14 days lockdown extension, FUBA will be considering the following options; "We shall definitely have to suspend some calendar activities, as they will be overtaken by events," the statement adds.
For the National Basketball League – NBL (Men and Women), the federation has zeroed on;
(a) To play a one-leg/round league where the top 4 teams in each division qualify for the semi-finals,
(b) A Tournament based competition where we have teams grouped in different divisions, and then the top four teams qualify for the semi-finals.
(c) If time doesn’t allow us to have the above two options by end of October 2020, then we shall be left with no option but to cancel the league.
However, we shall either have a knockout tournament, which includes all teams from the different divisions, or short 3×3 tournaments to engage our players and fans with some basketball activity for the year 2020.
The federation will also have to wait for communication from FIBA regarding international events.
Basketball Africa League, AfroBasket 2021 Qualifiers and 3×3 Africa Cup are some of the events lined up for later this year.
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