{"id":419573,"date":"2024-12-20T16:59:17","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T15:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=419573"},"modified":"2024-12-20T16:59:17","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T15:59:17","slug":"official-statement-from-paris-basketball-regarding-the-suspension-of-the-game-against-fenerbahce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/official-statement-from-paris-basketball-regarding-the-suspension-of-the-game-against-fenerbahce\/","title":{"rendered":"Official statement from Paris Basketball regarding the suspension of the game against Fenerbahce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/paris-basketball-fenerbahce-beko-istanbul-suspended\/\">suspension of their EuroLeague game<\/a> against Fenerbahce, Paris Basketball released an official statement with some clarifications regarding the health of their team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thursday morning, Paris Basketball had only six players medically cleared to practice, leading to the postponement of last night\u2019s match by the EuroLeague, due to a debilitating virus that has spread through almost the entire Paris Basketball team. As a reminder, three players were too sick to come to the arena for Tuesday night\u2019s match against Real Madrid, and one tried to play but could not continue due to feeling faint.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Paris Basketball practiced in three separate units to avoid the spread of further contamination, isolating those who have had the virus, or are in recovery, from the four who have not.<\/p>\n<p>We are monitoring the situation around the clock.<\/p>\n<p>Paris Basketball feels sad that so many fans \u2014 ours and Fenerbahce\u2019s \u2014 could not attend last night\u2019s match.\u00a0\u00a0We feel especially sad for the loyal fans from Fenerbahce who traveled from a long distance.\u00a0\u00a0We want to remind everybody who purchased a ticket that they will be honored when the match is rescheduled in coordination with Fenerbahce and the EuroLeague.<\/p>\n<p>However, it simply was not safe to play last night for the persons in the arena who would come in contact with our players and basketball staff, including the Fenerbahce players.\u00a0\u00a0Moreover, it would not have been fair to the ticket-buyers to put on a match far beneath\u00a0\u00a0EuroLeague standards, and as contemplated by the EuroLeague by-laws that permit a match to be postponed when a team has fewer than eight players&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris Basketball has issued an official statement regarding the suspension of the EuroLeague game against Fenerbahce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":419572,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[15727],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-419573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","typology-press-release-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/12\/Paris-Basketball-logo.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419573","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\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419573"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=419573"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=419573"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=419573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}