The Taylor Hawks' crucial return match with Sal's NBL league favourites, the Wellington Saints, will go ahead in Wellington on Sunday, but without spectators.
The plans were confirmed on Thursday by basketball league general manager Justin Nelson, ending concerns that the Covid-19 level 2 alert in the capital might cause postponement of the match, one of the biggest of the season and set for tip-off at 5pm on Sunday in Wellington's TSB Arena.
It's the second of two weekend games for the Hawks, opening with a home-court, full-crowd Pettigrew.Green Arena match against the Pukekohe-based Franklin Bulls on Saturday, starting at 7.30pm.
But the Saints' Friday night game away to Nelson Giants has been rescheduled to Wednesday night next week.
There are 18 matches for each side in the regular season before the top 4 playoffs on July 22-23.