Not only companies are already struggling during these hard times, but also lots of sports teams. Unfortunately we have some prominent athletes getting infected with that virus, which could have longterm effects on their performance, but also clubs are having some hard times financially due to literally being out of revenue streams, while still having to pay the salaries. And for clubs in Basketball, Handball, Volleyball and even some Football teams, this could get really ugly. They are very dependant to get money from ticket sales and some additional sponsoring deals.
This thread is for keeping track of such teams. Why ? Because once the competitions resume, this should get very interesting in terms of betting.
Don't use this thread for discussions surrounding sports and Covid-19 (there are gazillion of other threads for that), but for hard, provable facts.
I'll start with some news from German Basketball League (BBL). There are now three teams, that have laid off lots of their players already.
Brose BambergJordan Crawford (Top Scorer, 17.0ppg) and Darion Atkins (5.8ppg) were
sent home and won't come back.
Some more players have left to go back to USA, but will be available at a later point again.
Telekom Baskets BonnBranden Frazier (14.0ppg), Stephen Zimmerman (6.6ppg), Geno Lawrence (5.3ppg & 23mpg) and Donald Sloan (14.0ppg)
were released and will not come back. If the season somehow resumes, Bonn will be doomed without these.
Rasta VechtaHuge trouble for them, they will have to file for bankruptcy, if they won't get financial support.
Jordan Davis (11.2ppg), Kamari Murphy (5.5ppg) and Steve Vasturia (13.4ppg)
were released already and will not return.
If you have any information about other teams, maybe your domestic ones, that struggle and have to lay off players to save money, please post here with source.