Basketball Men's B-League starts October 2nd, 13th July 17:12
The B. League of basketball men announced that it will be October 2 this year after taking measures against the infection of the new coronavirus on the opening day of this season.
The B League held a conference in Tokyo on the 13th and announced the outline of the next season.
The opening day will be October 2nd, and the match between Arbulk Tokyo, which has won the league title for the second time in the first part of B1, and Kawasaki Brave Sanders, who won the last season's middle district, will be held on this day ahead of other matches. became.
In addition, as a measure against new coronavirus infection, perform PCR inspections every two weeks for athletes and team staff during the season, and create guidelines for infection measures that refer to the J League of professional baseball and soccer. Revealed.
In addition, regarding the final of the championship that decides the winning team of the season, this season's method will be changed from the method of finalizing one game so far to winning the first two games.
Daiki Tanaka from Tokyo and Yuma Fujii from Kawasaki also attended the conference, and Tanaka, who won the MVP = Best Player Award last season, said, "I'm looking forward to playing in front of the fans. , I want to prepare for the opening race while working on safety measures."