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PBA player tests positive for COVID-19, Manila Clásico to move on
Luisa Morales (Philstar.com) – October 25, 2020 – 11:43 am
MANILA, Philippines – A PBA player tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) inside the bubble in Pampanga.
At a press conference on Sunday, the league announced that the official who tested positive for the virus earlier this week resulted in negative confirmatory tests.
But a Blackwater Elite player tested positive and has since been isolated from the rest of the team and taken to Athletes Village in Capas, Tarlac for further testing.
The entire Elite squad has been isolated. Commissioner Willie Marcial announced that the game scheduled between Blackwater and Rain or Shine today is canceled.
But the Clasico de Manila match between Ginebra San Miguel and Magnolia Hotshots will take place at 6:45 pm.
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October 25, 2020 – 11:36 am
A PBA player tests positive for COVID-19. Earlier this week, an official also tested positive, but confirmatory tests came back negative. The player who tested positive for the virus is now isolated.
The PBA will not hold its first game scheduled for today (Blackwater Elite vs Rain or Shine), but the Manila Classic between Geneva and Magnolia is said to go ahead. – Philstar.com/Luisa Morales
October 21, 2020 – 2:01 pm
PBA announces that an arbitrator of the bubble delegation of 350 people has been considered a suspected case of COVID-19 in Clark, Pampanga.
They have already isolated him and rushed him to a quarantine facility in Capas, Tarlac. – THE STAR / John Bryan Ulanday
October 10, 2020 – 1:18 p.m.
China’s state broadcaster ends a year-long blackout of NBA games on Saturday, citing the “goodwill” of the US basketball competition after a dispute over pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong. Kong.
CCTV broadcast Game 5 of the NBA Finals series, where the Miami Heat narrowly beat the LA Lakers of LeBron James 111-108 to keep their title hopes alive.
CCTV suspended NBA broadcasts last October after Houston Rockets executive Daryl Morey tweeted “Fight for freedom, support Hong Kong,” referring to protests that Beijing called separatist and seditious. – AFP
October 6, 2020 – 6:18 pm
Asia’s largest mixed martial arts promotion, One Championship, is committed to implementing strict biosecurity measures this week for its first major international event following a months-long coronavirus shutdown.
The Singapore-based organization, which promotes cards in Asia in mixed martial arts, muay thai and kickboxing, was unable to organize fights for nearly four months due to the pandemic.
They resumed in China in June, but Friday’s “Reign of Dynasties” in Singapore will be the team’s first international event since the restart. – AFP
October 3, 2020 – 9:20 am
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver says he believes the league is unlikely to pause a delayed 2021 season to allow the player to compete in a postponed Tokyo Olympics.
“We’ll consider it,” Silver says in an on-court interview with NBA TV before the Los Angeles Lakers and Miami Heat met in Game 2 of the NBA Finals in the league’s quarantine bubble in Orlando, Florida.
“I think, at the end of the day, it’s unlikely that if we start late we will stop for the Olympics.” – AFP
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