BEBL All Star Weekend Inside the Civic Center  

The Belize City Civic Center will come alive on Sunday evening for the Belize Elite Basketball League’s All-Star game. It promises to be a fun-filled family event with loads of giveaways. A group of twenty-four players from the ninety athletes currently playing in the league were selected through a voting process. According to the league’s Commissioner, Glenn Gill, the voting process included team owners, managers, head coaches, media representatives and desk officials. This morning, Commissioner Gill and the team owners called a press conference to explain the approach and invited fans to the game.

 

Glenn Gill, Commissioner, BEBL

“Each team had to put two foreigners, three Belizeans and three Belizean Americans from off their teams. In some cases, some teams didn’t have Belizean American but after doing that, we looked at stats and twenty-four players were selected. From those twenty-four players, the owners, the coaches, assistant coaches, the commissioner and deputy commissioner and the media voted for the players who would participate in the games. It was forty-eight and it came down to twenty-four. The list was made and from that the public will decide who will start the game. Now for the all-star game, the prize money will be three thousand or ten percent of what the gate makes, depending on which one is greater. So, one team will be called the home team and the other will be called the away team. One of the rules will be that there will be three foreigners on each team and only two of them can play at any one time. As I said, the home team will be basically players and the away team will be Belizean Americans with the three foreigners.”

 

The weekend will also include a three-point shootout and a slam dunk contest.