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The troubled regular season of the Endesa League is coming to an end.

Between covid outbreaks and the calendar tightening (even more so with

the Pre-

Olympics

that begin in just over a month

), it was not easy.

From this Tuesday to next Sunday the 23rd, the remainder is settled, two days and something else.

And in a week, the playoffs start with another unprecedented peculiarity: all the qualifiers will be the best of three, including the final.

There are 19 games left to complete the puzzle of the most unusual course in history. Two full days and the last of the postponed meetings of

RETABet Bilbao

, which, after infections in its squad, will play five games in 13 days. He is in it and with the water around the neck of salvation.

Precisely that, the last of the places of descent towards the LEB Oro is the little that remains at stake. The

Acunsa GBC has already certified its goodbye to the Endesa League

after falling to Baskonia, another of those who due to the virus is balancing calendars. There are only two teams involved, Bilbao and Movistar Estudiantes. But the former, who depend on themselves, have three crashes left and only one for Madrid. The accounts say that if Alex Mumbrú's men win their three games (San Pablo Burgos today, Real Madrid on Thursday and Joventut on Sunday), they will be saved. And if the Ramiro team lose against Burgos, it is worth them with two wins.

At the top, it remains to be resolved

the last square of access to the playoffs

.

Because the first place in the table is held by Real Madrid after only losing two games in the entire season: if they win at Bilbao or Unicaja or if Barça loses at least one of the two they have left.

Barça in the Final Four

The

Lenovo Tenerife is mathematically third

(wow) and Valencia (depends on itself), Baskonia and Burgos battle for fourth place and home

court advantage in the quarterfinals.

Joventut, mathematically back in the playoffs, can only be sixth or seventh.

And Andorra, Unicaja, Gran Canaria and Manresa fight for the last ticket.

Those who have it best are those of the Principality, who do not depend on anyone.

They will enter the eighth if they win their two games

: they visit Joventut and close at home against the already relegated Acunsa GBC. If they fail, the possibilities are opened for Malaga and Canaries, because Manresa, which only has one game left, has it much more complicated.

And all that, is six days and with a novelty: in some pavilions there will be public for the first time. According to the agreement that the Government reached with both the ACB and the Football League, it will only be allowed in those autonomous communities that are, at most,

at alert level 1

. Today, in the Endesa League, the Valencia Community (Valencia), Galicia (Monbus Obradoiro), the Canary Islands (Herbalife Gran Canaria and Lenovo Tenerife) and Murcia (UCAM) meet this requirement. Andorra (MoraBanc) may also have an audience in its pavilion, according to the regulations of the Principality.

This Wednesday, at the Obradoiro - Murcia (6.30 p.m.), there will be an audience (it will only be allowed to occupy 25% of the capacity of the pavilion with a

maximum of 1,500 fans

) in Spanish professional basketball for the first time since March 8, 2020 .

And after the marathon, which will close on Sunday at 8:00 p.m.

with Gran Canaria - Obradoiro, another strange circumstance:

an eight-day break until the start of the playoffs

.

After putting an end to the regular league a week later than planned, the ACB has preferred to wait a few days and not see the fight for the title for the Final Four interrupted (from May 28 to 30 in Cologne) since, at the Barça being in it, we would have to wait for their series of quarters to be resolved to start the semifinals.

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