Later on December 16, the CBA officially announced the second stage of the schedule, in addition to the venue was all arranged in Changchun, the schedule was not postponed as previously rumored, but began according to the original 25th.
Previously, when the epidemic did not repeat itself, the second phase was originally scheduled to be held in Zhuji and Changchun, and during the competition, 5 teams from each of the two divisions would switch venues. However, since then, the official has arranged the second phase to be held in Changchun.
When the official announced this, it hinted that the schedule would be adjusted, which also made many fans speculate that the CBA League would be postponed, but in the end, the second stage was still scheduled to be held on the 25th as scheduled.
The league is not postponed in fact based on two points, one, because there will be a Winter Olympics next year, the schedule of all domestic events will coincide with it as much as possible, and the Chinese men's basketball team itself also needs a long period of isolation and training because of the World Preliminary Tournament window and the Asian Cup, once postponed, it will involve the whole body, so it is most reasonable not to postpone, but to fine-tune the original schedule.
Secondly, the non-postponement is also the trust of the relevant managers led by Yao Ming in their own plans. If a decision is postponed with the slightest difficulty, it will be questioned as it was before the CBA resumed two years ago. In addition, in the past two years, the official has accumulated enough experience to deal with various emergencies, so the second phase of not postponing also shows the official tough attitude, and gives fans and sponsors confidence.
So everything is going according to plan, before the start of the season, the official said, there is a possibility of returning to home-and-away system in the third stage?
For clubs, they have already been tormented by the epidemic and suffered serious losses, and 15 clubs have jointly signed a letter to CBA in the offseason to ask for the resumption of home and away games, but in the end they failed to achieve their goals for various reasons.
But this also sees from one side, in the case of sponsors have withdrawn one after another, there is no ticket revenue, it is difficult for clubs to support it anymore, and it is the general trend to restore the home and away games and let sponsors and fans return to the venue.
However, the recurrence of the epidemic will make it more difficult to restore home and away games, but as mentioned above, the official has accumulated enough experience, such as letting clubs choose venues in other provinces and cities as their home stadiums, like the Xinjiang men's basketball team, which is said to have chosen Xi'an as an alternative home.
Therefore, when the third stage is carried out, once the situation improves, the probability of the CBA League returning to home-and-away system in an orderly manner will be very large.