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

[r1ck]

I think regardless of how long a season is the PBA isnt making money as evident by them being dropped by TV5 due to poor sales on tv time commercial ad spots and underwhelming ratings. And I also read that of the one biggest reasons why the PBA shifted to smaller venues was to cut back on expenses for rentals of playing venues since MOA and Araneta have higher rental fees.

[Sikatrix]

I think regardless of how long a season is the PBA isnt making money as evident by them being dropped by TV5 due to poor sales on tv time commercial ad spots and underwhelming ratings. And I also read that of the one biggest reasons why the PBA shifted to smaller venues was to cut back on expenses for rentals of playing venues since MOA and Araneta have higher rental fees.

PBA ratings are still much higher than other leagues plus they were dropped by TV5 because ABS CBN was banned and that caused a ripple effect(ABS shows moving to TV5). Since I remember, the PBA cannot compete with the GMA/ABS primetime shows and that goes for other sports as well.

That being said they do have an attendance problem for sure.

[Sikatrix]

Article being promoted by Snow and we all know how close he is to Converge.

https://fastbreak.com.ph/fiberxers-pursue-dwight-howard-for-2024-25-pba-commissioners-cup/sports-galore

[CoJ]

Oh boy, this could be another PR disaster for the PBA

https://www.spin.ph/life/people/ira-pablo-neypes-on-losing-job-as-pba-courtside-reporter-a6035-20241015?utm_source=Facebook-Spin&utm_medium=Ownshare&utm_campaign=20241015-fbnp-people-ira-pablo-neypes-on-losing-job-as-pba-courtside-reporter-a6035-20241015-fbfirst&fbclid=IwY2xjawF7CStleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHQPQXq1sP54EpYGAuDC4GCaCn9Wcr3z2mba4EojhPhPWdKMN_IJTb0lhkQ_aem_5CMCepwGaFyB5-rrUzkC2A

[Sikatrix]

Oh boy, this could be another PR disaster for the PBA

https://www.spin.ph/life/people/ira-...aFyB5-rrUzkC2A

Im doubtful on this considering they hired Eileen Shi afterwards

[CoJ]

Im doubtful on this considering they hired Eileen Shi afterwards

Easy for the league to deflect the blame to tv5 anyway

hmm difficult for pablo to prove this as all she has are testimonies

[Metta]

We're overestimating our society if we really think that women's appearances doesn't factor in a lot of careers. Actresses, reporters, models, receptionists, flight attendants, waitresses, etc are all measured based on appearance. All things being equal, the one with "pleasing personality" gets the job.

Even very talented and proven celebrities lose work opportunities the moment they age and gain weight.

[greenarcher]

We're overestimating our society if we really think that women's appearances doesn't factor in a lot of careers. Actresses, reporters, models, receptionists, flight attendants, waitresses, etc are all measured based on appearance. All things being equal, the one with "pleasing personality" gets the job.

Even very talented and proven celebrities lose work opportunities the moment they age and gain weight.

Jessica Soho is the lone exception LOL

[IPC]

I just realized that the collegiate boys (mostly KQ) are unavailable so either Abando or Heading might have a chance.

Just as long as the SBP realized this before you, we're good... but they should have known this as early as 7 months ago that La Salle has a game at San Juan the day before Gilas plays New Zealand at MoA and another game at San Juan maybe five and a half hours tops before the HK game.

For that matter, the Commisioners Cup starts just 3 days after the HK game. Gilas will win without KQ against HK, but maybe they do need someone else to play the two and backup Brownlee at the three against New Zealand if Ramos won't be ready. I'm assuming there wouldn't be a problem with the other B.League Gilas players.

Like I said in other threads/posts, Gilas is lucky that its really just New Zealand they have to deal with as far as potential scheduling clusterfucks for now. But once the FIBA Asia Cup is done and World Cup Qualifiers kick in, it'll be different layers of scheduling problems to deal with.

We really need the PBA to go to the two-conference format after the Asia Cup up to the 2027 World Cup to avoid scheduling issues. There's also EASL to consider.

Windows are on November-December 2025, June-July 2026, October-November 2026, and February-March 2027. World Cup starts on 27 August 2027. We need the season to end at least on June 2027 to give our PBA guys time to rest and then prepare, and time to consider replacements in case of injury.

[hmbopbaduwap]

Cardel out of Terrafirma, Nonoy signs 2 year deal.

[greenarcher]

Perapirma still unsold?

[Dotch]

Perapirma still unsold?

New team manager is the director of the e-sports team co founded by Alpransis! Go figure!

[lem0nadi]

Let Mikey Williams and Jordan Heading to have their rights given to Converge and Troy Rosario will somehow signs with them. Remove the idiotic 4-pt line. Play more games in province and small arenas, and watch how fans who wants a competitive environment go back watching.

I don't really care at all even if all of those bullshit unfair trades and farm teams will still exist for SMC and MVP for as long as they let other independent teams to be competitive too (Converge, Rain or Shine, and hopefully Phoenix).

[digitalsuperman]

Let Mikey Williams and Jordan Heading to have their rights given to Converge and Troy Rosario will somehow signs with them. Remove the idiotic 4-pt line. Play more games in province and small arenas, and watch how fans who wants a competitive environment go back watching.

I don't really care at all even if all of those bullshit unfair trades and farm teams will still exist for SMC and MVP for as long as they let other independent teams to be competitive too (Converge, Rain or Shine, and hopefully Phoenix).

god i hope that happens. mikey and jordan and try to converge. balti will also play for them right next conference?

[Silent Killer]

From Twitter

PBA insider

As expected, Jamie Malonzo won’t be playing in the coming window due to injury. There’s also talk that he could be traded back to an Smc farm team.

Nothing concrete, just rumors at this point.