{"id":166292,"date":"2020-08-13T17:07:10","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T15:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=166292"},"modified":"2020-08-13T17:07:10","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T15:07:10","slug":"fiba-extends-fiba-3x3-rankings-freeze-until-april-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/fiba-extends-fiba-3x3-rankings-freeze-until-april-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"FIBA extends FIBA 3&#215;3 rankings freeze until April 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All FIBA 3&#215;3 rankings \u2013 which have been\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiba.basketball\/news\/fiba-freezes-fiba-3x3-rankings\">frozen since April 1, 2020<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 will remain unchanged until at least April 1, 2021 (except if FIBA communicates a further extension) to avoid disrupting Olympic eligibility and qualification to next year\u2019s competitions.<\/p>\n<p>Since April 2020, no ranking points have expired or been added for any players. Although\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiba.basketball\/en\/news\/fiba-lifts-general-suspension-of-its-competitions\">FIBA lifted its general suspension of all competitions<\/a>\u00a0on July 9, some players, teams and federations are still unable to participate in FIBA 3&#215;3 official competitions and resume any 3&#215;3 activity in their country. By freezing the rankings until April 1, 2021, FIBA guarantees that even in countries still affected by the COVID-19 pandemic for the foreseeable future:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"list\">\n<li>\u00a0The (currently) highest-ranked federations can still qualify to 2021 national team competitions.<\/li>\n<li>The top 3&#215;3 players and teams can still get a spot in the professional circuit in 2021.<\/li>\n<li>The top 3&#215;3 players remain eligible to compete at the Tokyo Olympics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Federations, teams and players, who are able to successfully return to the court now, will be rewarded as soon as the freezing of the ranking is lifted.<\/p>\n<p>When the ranking calculations resumes on April 1, 2021, there will be 3 different periods:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"list\">\n<li>Until March 31, 2021, the rankings are frozen meaning they are identical to the rankings of April 1, 2020.<\/li>\n<li>From April 1, 2021 to September 30, 2021, all players will:\n<p>As normal, benefit from the ranking points earned in the last 12 months<\/p>\n<p>Transitionally, benefit from a 12-month extension for the ranking points earned before the freezing of the ranking on April 1, 2020<\/li>\n<li>From October 1, 2021, the rankings will be calculated as normal, based on the last 12 months.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information on the FIBA 3&#215;3 Rankings, go to our FAQ on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiba3x3.basketball\/\">FIBA3x3.basketball<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decision is to protect players, teams and national federations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[476],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-166292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3x3-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166292"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=166292"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=166292"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=166292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}