Curfew in France puts Jeep Elite, Pro B prime-time games on hold

Emmanuel Macron, the President of France, announced today a four-week curfew, starting this Saturday, in the following areas of the country: Ile-de-France (including Paris), Lille, Rouen, Saint-Etienne, Toulouse, Lyon, Grenoble, Aix-en-Provence/Marseille and Montpellier. The curfew will start

The curfew will run daily from 9 PM until 6 AM the following morning.

As a result, the French LNB, the league that runs the top-2 basketball divisions (Jeep Elite and Pro B), announced that this weekend’s prime-time games have been postponed: Le Mans Sarthe Basket vs Boulogne Levallois, Limoges CSP vs JL Bourg Basket, LDLC ASVEL vs BCM Gravelines Dunkerque, Poitiers Basket 86 vs Fos Provence, Saint Quentin BasketBall vs Aix Maurienne Savoie Basket, JA Vichy Clermont Métropole vs Nantes Basket Hermine, and UJAP Quimper vs Paris BasketBall.