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The Singapore Slingers competed in this league from 2006-2008. I think SMC and MVP are rich enough to own a team in this league. NBL is the best and most competitive basketball league in this part of the World.
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No one just comes and join the NBL. The Singapore Slingers traced its beginnings from the Canberra Cannons that played in the NBL from 1979 to 2003. The Cannons began to struggle and relocated to Newcastle for three seasons and were known as the Hunter Pirates for the 2003-04, 2004-05 and 2005-06 seasons. The team again relocated to Singapore before the start of the 2006-07 season. However, they also played occasional home games in Newcastle. The Singapore Slingers was the brainchild of NBL stalwart Bob Turner, the Slingers' CEO. The NBL believed the club would open the league to wider audiences and greater revenue. Due to the distance involved the team agreed to cover all travel costs of teams who played them in Singapore. However, the club had only averaged crowds of only 3500 at its home games during the last season. The National Basketball League announced on 29 July 2008 that the Singapore Slingers had decided to withdraw from the competition permanently due to the dramatic increase in international travel costs. That is despite among the owners of the Slingers is Tony Fernandes who is also the Group CEO of AirAsia.Originally posted by Lebron23 View Post
Another problem is unlike the good Trade relations between Australia and Singapore, vice-versa Filipino and Australian products are really not that visible in the Australian and Filipino markets respectively. And actually some of our well known products which come from our dairy and fishing industries are legally banned in Australia since they are protecting their own products. Australian brands are also not seen in Filipino Retail Shelves as we Filipinos prefer the more popular American brands.
This is not about basketball only, its about business and economics.
Look at the ABL its really more about promoting the team's brand or brands in other countries than basketball itself.LABAN KUNG LABAN! KAYA NATIN PILIPINAS!
Mabuhay ang TEAM PILIPINAS !!!!
NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE!
THE DREAM LIVES ON !!!!
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^^ ...and that's how the cookie crumbles
Im more interested in PBA expansion beyond its shore, say put up a team based in singapore, where a large young professional pinoy expats call their 2nd home. hey, if you're going to think out of a box, this is as far out of that metaphoric boxComment
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^^ but Slingers sn't tht hot even if we pry some popular players to the team..To becomes Asia's Best, we need to compete against the World's Best..
1 Big 4 small > 5 out offense.Comment
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^^ ...and who are the "popular" pinoy players who played for the Slingers? <long silence> Yeah, that's what i thought.
and besides, the original Singapore Slingers of the ABL isnt branded as a Filipino team. they had a couple of never-was pinoy players and a young jason castro and that's about it. they were never really identified to be a pinoy team.Comment
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