PBA 48th season

[hmbopbaduwap]

Converge bringing back Tom Vodanovich

https://www.spin.ph/basketball/pba/report-tom-vodanovich-returning-as-converge-import-a795-20230806?ref=feed_1_section

[hmbopbaduwap]

So, ROS measured Nick Evans after his first practice with the team and according to Yeng he is well within the 6'9 height limit as he apparently tip the scale at 6'8 and 7/8

https://tiebreakertimes.com.ph/tbt/yeng-guiao-confirms-nick-evans-within-pba-height-limit/278224

[greenarcher]

Converge bringing back Tom Vodanovich

https://www.spin.ph/basketball/pba/r...feed_1_section

Meh. Can't find a better player?

[hmbopbaduwap]

Meh. Can't find a better player?

And he is short for this conference, are they gonna tank for Balti? since still no word if he will join this year's draft

[hmbopbaduwap]

Triple tear for Jeremiah Gray

https://tiebreakertimes.com.ph/tbt/jeremiah-gray-possibly-out-for-season-due-to-ligament-tears/278345

The 26-year-old winger has received a devastating diagnosis of a ‘triple tear,’ resulting from injuries to his anterior cruciate (ACL), medial collateral (MCL), and posterior cruciate (PCL) ligaments. Gray is scheduled to undergo surgery later this month.

Initially, the diagnosis indicated that Gray had dislocated his right knee. However, a comprehensive MRI could not be conducted due to the accompanying swelling.

Last week, a piece of unfortunate news reached both Gray and Ginebra.

[hmbopbaduwap]

Cebu Landmasters interested in having a team according to Blackwater owner Dioceldo Sy

https://www.spin.ph/basketball/pba/blackwater-owner-bats-for-pba-expansion-teams-in-visayas-mindanao-a793-20230810?ref=home_featured_1

Sy said he knows for a fact that the owner of Cebu Landmasters is very interested in joining the league, suggesting that exploratory talks be made.

"I welcome the (PBA) expansion. I know maraming interested diyan from the South. The PBA should open up the invitation," said Sy in a chat with Spin ph.

“Meron talagang lumalapit sa atin. May dalawang seryoso pero hindi ko alam kung tutuloy na dere-derecho kaya ayoko rin banggitin kung sino sila,” said Marcial when he guested in the Philippine Sportswriters Association (PSA) Forum. “May nakikipag-usap, pero lagi namang ganun.”

Sy agrees with Marcial.

“Marami yan. There are a lot of prominent companies in the Visayas and Mindanao na willing naman. The PBA just needs to invite them,” he said.

At the same time, such move would allow the league to have more provincial games, and perhaps see the dawn of a home-and-away format.

Venues won’t be a problem as the KJC King Dome in Davao is set to be inaugurated later this year, while the SM Seaside Arena in Cebu will be finished in two years' time.

“At least isabay mo na yung pag-open ng dalawang venue para may flavor ng home-and-away,” the Blackwater owner added.


Logistically, Sy said the league can tap the help of the country’s three top airlines company, most especially AirAsia where congressman and Northport team owner Mikee Romero has a big stake.

Games in the South could also be scheduled on weekends like what the PBA does during regular out-of-town sorties.


Marcial said out-of-town matches will again be held in the coming Season 48, including possible matches in Hong Kong to serve as home games of guest team Bay Area Dragons.

In the long run, Sy said member ballclubs could eventually adopt provincial cities to carry their names.

[reamily]

Let Pampanga handle converge

[CoJ]

Let Pampanga handle converge

speaking of pampanga, delta wants his lanterns as guest team in the pba

https://www.spin.ph/basketball/pba/gov-pineda-to-pba-invite-provincial-teams-for-guest-stints-a2244-20230811?utm_source=Facebook-Spin&utm_medium=Ownshare&utm_campaign=20230811-fbnp-basketball-gov-pineda-to-pba-invite-provincial-teams-for-guest-stints-a2244-20230811-fbfirst&fbclid=IwAR0jPnUOQJrnGv5vV_v26Lo5FracI5IvAp_MQY2rCpb4Tk_kC9RZIfNjFnk_aem_AQw3VCGJBhuvM3hTTq2Qz7IFkLHan2vaZmTnfwgEts-0pf8IJOqRsoz4r4YW8jpIHtE&mibextid=Zxz2cZ

[zairex]

Be careful on what you wish for Sy. If PBA is already have so much politics. Wait when local politicians joins the association.

[Sikatrix]

speaking of pampanga, delta wants his lanterns as guest team in the pba



https://www.spin.ph/basketball/pba/g...ibextid=Zxz2cZ

This is so obvious. PBA teams pay 100m to join the league. Why the hell would they allow local guest teams? Sy's recommendation makes some sense but a local guest team doesn't make sense financially.

[ja.he]

I hope that Marcial is just joking that the PBA can have 16 teams. If PBA will have 16 teams in the near future, they need to make big adjustments in terms of tournament format as well as the game schedule.

[r1ck]

This is so obvious. PBA teams pay 100m to join the league. Why the hell would they allow local guest teams? Sy's recommendation makes some sense but a local guest team doesn't make sense financially.

100million is a small amount to the Pineda's. If he really wants to Delta could actually buy and bankroll his own PBA team. But then again I dont think the yes man club/PBA board would let in an outspoken owner that would disrupt the staus quo of a league on life support.

[CoJ]

I hope that Marcial is just joking that the PBA can have 16 teams. If PBA will have 16 teams in the near future, they need to make big adjustments in terms of tournament format as well as the game schedule.

plus league parity, you dont want another 4 terafirma and blackwater. Feels like the talents for the future expansion trams would be watered down, u less the pba fully implements a strict salary cap to dislodged those superstars from the empires

[r1ck]

If the PBA is serious about league balance there are so many ways that they can go about it. I believe one notion which the then Alaska was strongly advocationg for was that the first pick of the draft deemed non tradeable and we all know that the PBA money teams blocked that with the help of their lap dog Marcial. We all saw how MVP caliber players (CJ Perez, Christian Standhardinger, StanleyPringle, Mikey Williams, Jaime Malonzo etc.) were all shipped to big money teams and most if not all of them were done via lopsided trades. This thing has been going on about for more than a decade and the PBA wonders why the PVL, UAAP and even now the MPBL are able to out do them in gate attendance.

The PBA may have the superior talent but it is being ran to the ground by self centered incompetent people and its amazing that some of those people managed to worm their way into the SBP and poison the national team program as well.

[Rds]

I hope that Marcial is just joking that the PBA can have 16 teams. If PBA will have 16 teams in the near future, they need to make big adjustments in terms of tournament format as well as the game schedule.

What happened to the rumors of teams selling their franchises? First, I would like the farm teams to be bought by guys with enough capital ti be independent of SMC and MVP. Teams like Converge and maybe ROS.