{"id":8027,"date":"2020-03-14T22:36:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T22:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slba.org.uk\/?p=8027"},"modified":"2020-03-14T22:36:25","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T22:36:25","slug":"important-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slba.org.uk\/?p=8027","title":{"rendered":"IMPORTANT NEWS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8028 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.slba.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/wash_hands-300x169.png\" alt=\"Wash Your Hands instructions\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slba.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/wash_hands-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.slba.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/wash_hands-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.slba.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/wash_hands-600x338.png 600w, https:\/\/www.slba.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/wash_hands-128x72.png 128w, https:\/\/www.slba.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/wash_hands-32x18.png 32w, https:\/\/www.slba.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/wash_hands-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/www.slba.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/wash_hands-250x141.png 250w, https:\/\/www.slba.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/wash_hands.png 976w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As affiliated clubs of Basketball Scotland you should have all received an email (please see copy below) from Kevin Pringle, CEO, confirming \u201cPostponement of All Basketball Scotland Competitions\u201d with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, in line with our governing body, SLBA are <strong>postponing all SLBA competition with immediate effect<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Remaining league games and cup finals<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The SLBA Executive Committee will monitor this situation and advise clubs in due course.<\/p>\n<p>We will provide a further update should this situation change.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">Following message from Kevin Pringle:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 36.0pt;\"><i><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">Subject: COVID-19 Coronavirus Update \/ 13 March 2020 #2 &#8211; POSTPONEMENT OF ALL BASKETBALLSCOTLAND COMPETITIONS<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 36.0pt;\"><i><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 36.0pt;\"><i><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">POSTPONEMENT OF ALL BASKETBALLSCOTLAND COMPETITIONS<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 36.0pt;\"><i><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 36.0pt;\"><i><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">Dear Club Secretary,<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 36.0pt;\"><i><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 36.0pt;\"><i><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">Further to our earlier statement, things have moved significantly today and, following feedback from a number of clubs and a number of self-isolations being highlighted across various clubs, basketballscotland are postponing all basketball with immediate effect. The health and safety of all our players, coaches, officials and spectators is of paramount importance.\u00a0 Please take the steps to inform those affected the decision as quickly as possible, particularly those due to participate this evening.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 36.0pt;\"><i><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 36.0pt;\"><i><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">This has been a really challenging decision to take and we appreciate the impact it may have on clubs ahead of the weekend. We remain available to support clubs as much as possible.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 36.0pt;\"><i><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">basketballscotland will continue to monitor the current situation and will inform of any updates.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 36.0pt;\"><i><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 36.0pt;\"><i><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">We wanted to communicate this as quickly and clearly as possible.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 36.0pt;\"><i><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 36.0pt;\"><i><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">There will be more information to follow.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 36.0pt;\"><i><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 36.0pt;\"><i><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">Please keep safe.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 36.0pt;\"><i><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 36.0pt;\"><i><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">Kevin<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As affiliated clubs of Basketball Scotland you should have all received an email (please see copy below) from Kevin Pringle, CEO, confirming \u201cPostponement of All Basketball Scotland Competitions\u201d with immediate effect. Therefore, in line with our governing body, SLBA are postponing all SLBA competition with immediate effect. Remaining league games \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slba.org.uk\/?p=8027\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8028,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8,12,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cups","category-leagues","category-masters","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slba.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slba.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slba.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slba.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slba.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.slba.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slba.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slba.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slba.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slba.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}