CHINA DAILY | HONG KONG EDITION Wednesday, April 8, 2020 | 19 SPORTS GOLF BASKETBALL A-list imports in shutdown limbo Americans Lin, Jeter embracing challenges but compatriot Young left ruing quarantine row By SUN XIAOCHEN
[email protected] So much has happened With an expected mid-April restart now delayed amid the coronavirus crisis, the Chi- over the past two months nese Basketball Association has put its sea- since I left Beijing last time. son-salvaging effort on hold to leave players and teams stuck in limbo. I spent the 14 days in After recalling some foreign players and isolation reading, thinking, reassembling teams at training camps, the CBA has had to abruptly hit the pause but- reflecting and praying. ton on its resumption plans for the 2019-20 Nobody should take life for season as the government resists the temp- tation to ease restrictions on mass gather- granted. We will hang on ings. together and it’s time to Ireland's Shane Lowry kisses the Claret Jug trophy after winning the British Open at Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland The pushback has caught a group of A-list on July 21 last year. The organizers of the major, The Royal & Ancient, announced on Monday that they have decided to imports in a dilemma. Just as the pandemic restart.” cancel this year’s event, which had been scheduled for Royal St George’s in southeast England, due to the COVID19 was accelerating globally, the likes of ex-NBA Jeremy Lin, pandemic. The championship will next be played at the same venue in July 2021.