The BCL Asia Championship is canceled and the Seoul SK Cavaliers are stuck without a game for two weeks and are considering moving to Taiwan for training.

SK Knights mixed-race player Daniel. (Taken from the official website of Seoul SK Knights)

[Reporter Lu Yangxuan/Comprehensive Report] The 2026 Asian Basketball Champions League (BCL Asia) has recently announced its cancellation, which has also disrupted the arrangements of each team. According to South Korean media reports, the KBL Seoul SK Knights were originally given two weeks to participate in the competition, but now it has become an embarrassing situation with no games to play. The team is evaluating the possibility of returning to Taiwan for training at that time.

The BCL East Asia Qualifying Tournament ended in May this year. Hong Kong Nanhua won the championship, and PLG Taoyuan Pilot won the runner-up, both qualifying for the main draw. At that time, the International Basketball Association (FIBA) announced that the West Asian region was affected by the war and the schedule was postponed. The BCL main draw will be postponed to the first two weeks of October. However, recently FIBA ​​finally decided to cancel the event.

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South Korean basketball media "Jumpball" reported today that the cancellation of the event has put the Seoul SK Cavaliers, who were originally expected to participate, in a very embarrassing situation. In response to the BCL event, the KBL did not arrange any games for the SK Cavaliers from the opening game to October 17. The season will start on October 3, but the SK Cavaliers will not have their first game of the season until the 18th, which is equivalent to a two-week semi-mandatory rest period, and the future schedule may be quite intensive. Although the rest period is not without its benefits, including the mixed-race player Daniel (Edi) who was recruited by the national team. Daniel) and An Yongjun, who needs to rest until early October due to a finger injury, can have more time to recover, but the overall impact on the team is still not small.

The KBL has revised the rules for foreign players in the new season. Two foreign players are allowed to be on the court at the same time in the second and third quarters, and a single foreign player is still maintained in the first and fourth quarters. SK head coach Jeon Hee-cheol said that the advantage of the two-week off period is that he can observe how other teams operate in the second and third quarters. "But relatively, it is impossible to conduct 10 In the ranking competition where two teams participate together, it will also be difficult to maintain the actual feeling. If it is a "single foreign aid per quarter" system, you can also have an internal blue and white match. However, this season needs to deal with the "two foreign aids playing at the same time" quarter, and playing practice games with college teams is not very effective in this regard. "

The report mentioned that for SK, how to improve the actual combat feeling in the first two weeks of the season is very critical. The team will come to Taiwan for off-site training from the 8th to the 16th of this month, and is also considering going to Taiwan for a second off-site training in the future, but it is still unknown at this time.

The report quoted an SK team official as saying, "The B.League will open at the end of September, and Taiwan will not open until the end of October. If we can arrange about 2 or 3 warm-up matches, we will consider going to Taiwan again for off-site training. But if there is no way, the alternative is to have a warm-up match with the Shangwu team, and then combine it with an intra-team competition to prepare for the new season."