{"id":269224,"date":"2020-09-19T04:30:40","date_gmt":"2020-09-19T08:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=269224"},"modified":"2020-09-19T04:30:40","modified_gmt":"2020-09-19T08:30:40","slug":"fiba-asia-cup-qualifiers-to-continue-inside-bubble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/09\/19\/fiba-asia-cup-qualifiers-to-continue-inside-bubble\/","title":{"rendered":"FIBA Asia Cup qualifiers to continue inside &#8216;bubble&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_267933\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-267933\" style=\"width: 731px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/pexels-pixabay-358042.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-267933\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/pexels-pixabay-358042-731x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"731\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/pexels-pixabay-358042-731x1024.jpg 731w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/pexels-pixabay-358042-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/pexels-pixabay-358042-768x1075.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/pexels-pixabay-358042.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 731px) 100vw, 731px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-267933\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FIBA will designate one host city for the bubble. (Pexels photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The International Basketball Federation (FIBA) announced on Friday that it will do away with the home-and-away format for the remainder of its continental cup qualifiers due to the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All the games of both windows should be conducted in &#8220;bubbles&#8221;, instead of home and away games, with the agreement of the host public health authorities and in compliance with FIBA health protocols,&#8221; FIBA said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>FIBA will designate one host city for the bubble.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The hosts will be decided at the regional level and will be announced in due course,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p>FIBA said one bubble will converge one qualifying group, which means Gilas Pilipinas Men, Thailand, Indonesia, and South Korea, which make up Group A of the FIBA Asia Cup qualifiers, would be secluded in just one area.<\/p>\n<p>However, FIBA also said it is possible that one bubble will have two qualifying groups in it.<\/p>\n<p>The Covid-19 pandemic forced the postponement of the Feb. 20 battle between Gilas Men and Thailand at the Smart Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City.<\/p>\n<p>FIBA has yet to decide on when the game will be rescheduled, although it is expected that their first-round meeting may take place just before the regular November window, where both teams will face off again.<\/p>\n<p>Before the scheduled Gilas Men-Thailand rematch on Nov. 30, Gilas Men will face South Korea first on Nov. 27 in a battle pitting unbeaten teams and heavy favorites to top Group A<em><strong>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 The International Basketball Federation (FIBA) announced on Friday that it will do away with the home-and-away format for the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":267933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","mauthors-ivan-stewart-saldajeno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269225,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269224\/revisions\/269225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}