BARCELONA, SPAIN ¨C Japan has until the end of October to resolve a dispute between its two competing basketball leagues but there is no threat to the national team competing at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the sport¡¯s governing body said on Thursday.
FIBA wants a single league in Japan, arguing that disagreements between the bj-league and the National Basketball League (NBL) has affected the growth of the sport in the country.
The governing body¡¯s secretary general, Patrick Baumann, said Japan had until Oct. 31 to find a solution but denied reports that failure to do so would have consequences for the 2020 Games.
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