Philippine PBA Trades, Releases, Sign-ups, Rumours (vol. III)

[CoJ]

trade is now changed to a Ferrer-Muzon straight up swap

https://www.spin.ph/basketball/pba/trade-approved-joshua-munzon-officially-joins-northport-a793-20230112?utm_source=Facebook-Spin&utm_medium=Ownshare&utm_campaign=20230112-fbnp-basketball-trade-approved-joshua-munzon-officially-joins-northport-a793-20230112-fbfirst&fbclid=IwAR0pi6MK5lZG8plFScj5KMIRi3ixXkTGhARO2YGUYRedYAN9wFtzOqXePuw

[PaulLee3]

Topex part ways with Phoenix

Next DLSU Coach

[hmbopbaduwap]

Coaching shuffle for Northport: Bonnie Tan as head coach, Pido as team manager

https://tiebreakertimes.com.ph/tbt/b...-letran/259671

[IPC]

I'm toying with a few ideas right now to help improve the PBA.

1. A league-cup format, with the EASL being the 3rd tournament (to those who qualified)
-League is double round robin, played from October to June. Game days on Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, but adjust as necessary for EASL and FIBA games. Finalists (or top whatever) qualify for the EASL.
-Cup is played in the midseason, probably in the whole of February. Top 8 teams at the time qualify. Games on Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday, but adjust as necessary for EASL and FIBA games. Best of 3 for each round from quarters to finals. You have 14-21 games.
-Win all three tournaments, and we get a Triple Crown, a new kind of Grand Slam, and in my view, more prestigious.

2. Luxury tax
- The NBA uses a luxury tax system in addition to their salary cap. In this system, teams above the luxury tax level pay extra for every peso above the luxury tax line, and the proceeds of the tax are distributed to non-taxpayers.
- This may help the non-taxpayers acquire money to pay for their stars and imports.

3. Allow imports for the whole season
- Up to 2 imports per team, one of which can be used on an Asian player or a naturalized player, or you can have two world imports.
- We need imports because they fill in areas where we are heavily lacking, such as 6'5"-6'7" wing players, 6'6"+ tweener forwards who can switch, rim protectors. We have a glaring scarcity in those areas, which frankly, we should be working on developing among our locals.
- They kinda add more excitement to the game. If they get scored on by locals, or beat by heavily-local teams, that will impress fans.

4. Transfer system
-Similar to the European system, wherein players are bought for a fee instead of traded players, although player swaps can be common.
-Allows farm teams and independent teams to sell to overseas teams. They might benefit if they ask a high price for a player under contract, and if they add a release clause (e.g. Will Navarro for P6-8M, Calvin Oftana for P8M, Japeth for P17M, June Mar for P20M, etc. I know some are not in farm teams, just providing examples of release clauses). Indie teams may use the funds to buy more players which they can develop and sell, and eventually get enough cash to contend.

I am just viewing this from a purely basketball and FIBA-adjustment standpoint. Not really business. If anyone can tweak this while maintaining profit (since it's a business), gladly appreciated.

[IPC]

The EASL isn’t the same without the CBA and the Taiwan situation is really messed up. At this rate, they should include the ABL Champion. The PBA will just send hotter chicks the next time EASL execs visits Manila so that they can talk them into the two-makeshift teams as the league tries to do another special format season complete with special draft to deal with the World Cup. Chances are, they’ll say: Fck it, one SMC team, one MPIC team.

It’s cute how Bay Area changes the make-up of their team alternating Nicholson and Powell just to comply with the PBA’s stupidity. How about just making the Governor’s and Commissioner’s Cups a literal Cup tournament simultaneously during the same season and tally the win-loss records for whoever should go to EASL? Some days 6’10 imports, others 6’6, All-Filipino on Sundays. That way, it ensures a full season of games that makes it easier to adjust for a major tournament between mid June to late September as well as FIBA windows and EASL games.

I get that the format right now is stupid, but that's how the PBA earns cash. More tournaments = more playoffs = more earnings. The PBA could earn more if there were solid fanbases outside of the SMC teams, but that will happen only if they are marketed well AND if the teams become competitive.

I do agree that the conferences should be merged, and maybe a cup-style tournament. Again, they fill in areas where we are heavily lacking, such as 6'5"-6'7" wing players, 6'6"+ tweener forwards who can switch, rim protectors. In some cases, a go-to guy as well. Sometimes, we need to plug more than one of these holes, e.

[hmbopbaduwap]

UE's 6'7 prized one and done discovery Luis Villegas signs with the TNT 3x3 team, will the SBP include him in the SEA Games 3x3 pool? Him and Keith Datu of J&T Express should be shoo-ins

https://twitter.com/naveenganglani/s...TybxYA5Xg&s=19

[BJ_Reloaded]

I'm toying with a few ideas right now to help improve the PBA.

1. A league-cup format, with the EASL being the 3rd tournament (to those who qualified)
-League is double round robin, played from October to June. Game days on Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, but adjust as necessary for EASL and FIBA games. Finalists (or top whatever) qualify for the EASL.
-Cup is played in the midseason, probably in the whole of February. Top 8 teams at the time qualify. Games on Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday, but adjust as necessary for EASL and FIBA games. Best of 3 for each round from quarters to finals. You have 14-21 games.
-Win all three tournaments, and we get a Triple Crown, a new kind of Grand Slam, and in my view, more prestigious.

2. Luxury tax
- The NBA uses a luxury tax system in addition to their salary cap. In this system, teams above the luxury tax level pay extra for every peso above the luxury tax line, and the proceeds of the tax are distributed to non-taxpayers.
- This may help the non-taxpayers acquire money to pay for their stars and imports.

3. Allow imports for the whole season
- Up to 2 imports per team, one of which can be used on an Asian player or a naturalized player, or you can have two world imports.
- We need imports because they fill in areas where we are heavily lacking, such as 6'5"-6'7" wing players, 6'6"+ tweener forwards who can switch, rim protectors. We have a glaring scarcity in those areas, which frankly, we should be working on developing among our locals.
- They kinda add more excitement to the game. If they get scored on by locals, or beat by heavily-local teams, that will impress fans.

4. Transfer system
-Similar to the European system, wherein players are bought for a fee instead of traded players, although player swaps can be common.
-Allows farm teams and independent teams to sell to overseas teams. They might benefit if they ask a high price for a player under contract, and if they add a release clause (e.g. Will Navarro for P6-8M, Calvin Oftana for P8M, Japeth for P17M, June Mar for P20M, etc. I know some are not in farm teams, just providing examples of release clauses). Indie teams may use the funds to buy more players which they can develop and sell, and eventually get enough cash to contend.

I am just viewing this from a purely basketball and FIBA-adjustment standpoint. Not really business. If anyone can tweak this while maintaining profit (since it's a business), gladly appreciated.

We all had our own fantasy scenario for our beloved PBA and for the whole basketball landscape, that if those things turn into reality certainly our FIBA ranking will surely improve dramatically and our ballers will be one of the sought after talent not only in NBA but also from different part of Europe, but we must accept the present reality that majority of the people who runs the so-called oldest professional basketball league in Asia are managed and run by Grandpas who are not that enthusiastic to somehow adjust to the current thread nowadays same thing on the whole basketball philosophy by our local coaches from the grassroot level that 70’s,80’s and 90’s kind of training is the still best and well suited for our young and aspiring ballers moving forward and sadly, our so-called NSA for basketball that were hoping that will uplift the quality of our basketball landscape from the time they replaced the dilapidated BAP, but unfortunately we haven’t strive that much the way we, as a fan want it to be. That’s one of my many “If only” in Philippine sports in general. If only we had a true blue basketball minded PBA commissioner who doesn’t mind loosing his/her job just to make sure drastic changes has to be done to be able to cope up with the current thread as far as global basketball are concern, same thing with SBP, if only they come up with holistic approach as far as grassroot development are concern and produce FIBA level talent…for now it’s still wishful thinking.

[r1ck]

I think a possible quick fix the PBA could do to balance the league is to put stricter restrictions when it comes to the draft. Yes they actually talked about making the top pick non tradeable and they have the sham trade approval commitee but those are stuff the league threw out to appease the fans.

I think if they really are serious about balancing out the league they should prevent teams from trading top draft picks/players. I think making the top 5 draft picks non tradeable and tying down the players picked in the top 5 to the teams that picked them for at least 3 or 4 years would seem fair and doable.

There is no use in trying to police the salary cap because there is no real way that the PBA can restrict the big money teams. And so I think focus should be made on revising the draft process.

[Rodbi]

I think a possible quick fix the PBA could do to balance the league is to put stricter restrictions when it comes to the draft. Yes they actually talked about making the top pick non tradeable and they have the sham trade approval commitee but those are stuff the league threw out to appease the fans.

I think if they really are serious about balancing out the league they should prevent teams from trading top draft picks/players. I think making the top 5 draft picks non tradeable and tying down the players picked in the top 5 to the teams that picked them for at least 3 or 4 years would seem fair and doable.

There is no use in trying to police the salary cap because there is no real way that the PBA can restrict the big money teams. And so I think focus should be made on revising the draft process.

And also remove the 3 farm teams and replace them with serious and well-moneyed aspiring basketball clubs. Abolition of sister teams is quite impossible right now owing to the clout of SMC and MPIC, so better to just remove those perennial bottom-dwelling clubs that feed them talent.

If these suggestions materialize, we can expect the PBA to be in a much better state than the one it currently is in.

[Supremo30]

And also remove the 3 farm teams and replace them with serious and well-moneyed aspiring basketball clubs. Abolition of sister teams is quite impossible right now owing to the clout of SMC and MPIC, so better to just remove those perennial bottom-dwelling clubs that feed them talent.

If these suggestions materialize, we can expect the PBA to be in a much better state than the one it currently is in.

The real quick fix for this is to stop the lopsided trades and unreasonable trades. If they starts to do that, people will be back on watching the actual games.

We want to see Terrence vs JMF, or Stanley vs Scottie , CJ vs JMF.

[CoJ]

there are rumors floating around socmed that Myles Powell is being eyed by Converge as their import. Highly doubtful since he is signed by the Dragons for the EASL

[Sikatrix]

there are rumors floating around socmed that Myles Powell is being eyed by Converge as their import. Highly doubtful since he is signed by the Dragons for the EASL

They just beat Strong in a tuneup. I doubt this.

[Rds]

They just beat Strong in a tuneup. I doubt this.

Is there a boxscore?

[IPC]

Inside the PBA says that there will be no Commissioner's Cup next season: https://twitter.com/InsideThePBA/sta...Lr8vxW9pB8w01w

Might need to prove it's veracity first, but if true, hope it's a conference in which up to two imports without a height limit are allowed.

[Supremo30]

Inside the PBA says that there will be no Commissioner's Cup next season: https://twitter.com/InsideThePBA/sta...Lr8vxW9pB8w01w

Might need to prove it's veracity first, but if true, hope it's a conference in which up to two imports without a height limit are allowed.

I think the reason there is no Commissioner's Cup is the Asian Games.
Jan 22, 2023 Govs Cup
Feb 2023 -6th Window FIBA Qualifier
Mar 2023- EASL Champions Cup
April 2023 - PBA Govs Cup Playoffs
May 2023 -SEA Games
Jun-Jul, 2023 -FIBA WC Preparation (NO PBA)
Aug 2023 - FIBA WC
September-Oct 2023 - Asian Games

Most likely, last week of November be the start of PBA AFC.