Liga Pilipinas...A New Basketball League

[christ1an]

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Enrico Llanto... mao ba ni katong sinaligan sa USC?

[digitalsuperman]

Liga Pilipinas bares lineup for inaugural


The newly formed regional basketball league Liga Pilipinas has received a major boost for its upcoming maiden season by attracting the support of most of the key provinces and cities in the country and known patrons of sports.

Liga Pilipinas CEO and President Noli Eala announced that 12 teams representing various regions of the Philippines have officially and formally been accepted as the first batch of founding members of Pinoy Basketbol Inc., mother company of Liga Pilipinas and the product of the merger of the NBC, MVBA and Third Force Inc. These are Cebu City, Iloilo, Pampanga, Taguig, Bacolod, Misamis Oriental, Ozamis City, Pagadian City, Davao, Ilocos Sur, Laguna and Zamboanga City.

"It is very encouraging and exciting to see the tremendous interest and support of the LGUs and known personalities in the various regions. I suppose they realize that there is true meaning and value to what we are trying to collectively achieve," Eala stated.

Among the local government heads involved in the teams are Governor Oscar Moreno (Misamis Oriental), Governor DV Savellano (Ilocos Sur), Governor Ed Panlilio (Pampanga), Mayor Freddie Tinga (Taguig), Mayor Reynaldo Parojinog (Ozamis) and Mayor Sammy Co (Pagadian).

Known sports patrons have also joined hands to throw in their full backing of the fledgling league including businessmen Michelle Lhullier of ML Kwarta Padala (Cebu), Manny Pangilinan of Smart (Pampanga), Mikee Romero of Harbour Center (Taguig), Robert Uy of Toyota Iloilo, Tony Agustin of West Negros University (Bacolod), Rolando and Junie Navarro of Zamboanga, and Pagcor Chairman Ephraim Genuino of Trace College (Laguna).

Eala added that 8 more teams are under final negotiations for at least four more slots in the inaugural conference of Liga which will feature a brand new "tour" and "home and away" format. Among them are Batangas, Pangasinan, Quezon, Tagaytay City in Cavite, General Santos City, Mandaue City, Rizal Province and Baguio City.

"With the support of major figures in both the public and private sector, Liga Pilipinas has taken a concrete step not only in giving our young talents all over the provinces a chance to play basketball at a competitive level but also in unifying the communities through their support of teams they can truly call their own. " Eala remarked.

[dieseldust]

There’s a new league in town and is patterned after the defunct Metropolitan Basketball Association (MBA). The Liga Pilipinas is ex-Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) comish Noli Eala’s newest pet project after getting the boot from the pro league (ok I didn’t include his boxing promotions). The league inaugurals will kick off on May 23-25 in the three key cities in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao, after months of resetting the opening date. So will Liga Pilipinas follow the MBA’s path to instant stardom or die a sudden death after reaching its momentum? Well, we’ll never know for sure. We hope Liga will stay as long as the PBA.

Liga Pilipinas is actually a merger between two minor leagues - the Mindanao Visayas Basketball Association (MVBA) and the National Basketball Conference (NBC). It is owned and operated by Pinoy Basketbol, Inc. (PBI), a member of the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (SBP).

Like the MBA, Liga is a region-based league. Unlike the MBA, however, Liga will work on a tight budget, around P10-12 million per year, less than the cost of maintaining a Philippine Basketball League (PBL) squad. FIBA rules will be enforced and minimum monthly salary for players will be set at P10,000 and maxes out at P20,000, this however, doesn’t include performance bonuses. It could be possible that bonuses be bigger than the player salaries in itself.

Sixteen teams banner the new league � eight each in the south and north. Teams from the north are Taguig, Ilocos Sur, Cavite, Pampanga while Cebu, Iloilo, Mandaue, Cagayan de Oro, Pagadian, Zamboanga, Ozamiz, and Davao banner the south teams. The league will select four to complete the cast of 16 from among teams from Rizal (Rep. Robbie Puno and Gov. Jun Ynares), Batangas (Sen. Ralph Recto), Baguio (Mayor Reinaldo Bautista), Tacloban (Kenneth Uy), General Santos City (Manny Pacquiao), Bacolod City (Dodong Bascon), Surigao del Sur (former Rep. Butch Pichay) and Ormoc.

Those who already have team monickers are the Latinos from Zamboanga (because they’re said to be the only Asian Latin city), the Warriors from Iloilo, the Ni�os from Cebu (for obvious reasons), Cota (fort) from Ozamis, and the Rescuers from Cagayan. If Baguio makes it, they will likely use the monicker the Centennials.

I suggest the other teams name theirs as the Connoisseurs (Pampanga), Miners (Cavite), Thorns (Davao), Vines (Mandaue), Caravans (Laguna), or even the Balisongs (Batangas). I don’t know about the others but maybe you have an idea? Opps you can’t use the old MBA team monickers like the Cebu Gems, Pampanga Dragons, Davao Eagles, Negros Slashers, Batangas Blades because they’re proprietary to the old MBA teams.

The league allows each team to have 14 players (only 12 can play each game) - a minimum of 8 homegrown talents, 2 ex-pros, 1 fil-foreigner (which means they can tap 3 amateurs not from its region). This is good because we could ultimately see the next Jun Simon, Dondon Hontiveros, John Ferriols and Reynel Hugnatan waiting to be discovered from the ranks. This could also mean added exposure for Fil-foreign prospects (if and when they decide to come here) such as 5-9 Jeff Dosado (AIC), 6-5 Jared Dillinger (Hawaii), 6-4 Emel Rowe (Australia), and 5-10 Ryan Wetherell (Southern California) before they make a big jump to the PBA, and perhaps a new lease of life on ex-pros like Nelson Asaytono, EJ Feihl, Jimwell Torion, Stephen Padilla.

The league format will be a hybrid of sorts, a combination of the the point system used in the Euroleague, UEFA, the European and PGA Golf Tours, and the Association of Tennis Professionals. Weekly tournament legs will be held in each of the homecourts of the participating teams, with leg winners declared as leg champions and each get some sort of cash incentives. They also accrue points that will determine placings in the National Championship.

It works like this, after the initial phase wherein each team hosts a weekly tournament, the 12 top finishers (teams with the most number of points) will advance to the playoffs, so much like the NBA. The playoffs will consist of a wildcard stage involving eight teams, four best-of-five quarterfinal series, two best-of-five semifinal series and one best-of-five finals. Funny, it works like the PBA, too.

Unlike the MBA, travelling expenses will not be mammoth. Each home team will host one tournament leg and will not travel constantly during the initial stages of the tournament. The home-and-away format will be only be used during the National championship phase. There will be two conferences per season, each spanning approximately for four months. The league is also coordinating with the Philippine Basketball League and may schedule its games at the end of the PBL conference, making it possible to tap topflight PBL talents into its fold.

According to reports, the games will be shown over the internet on www.ligapilipinas.net (well, don’t try it, it’s still not working) and possibly for ABC-5 (well, they couldn’t get the PBA back). If this league pans out, ABC people will have the last laugh.

I can’t wait for the opening of the games. I admit showing preference for the MBA during its early seasons and have the same excitement for Liga Pilipinas. More basketball means more fun! Are you ready to join the bandwagon?

source:
http://basketball.exchange.ph/index....in-the-making/

[hoopster21]

unsa manang mga initials sa mga new players bai? mao jd na initials sa mga bag.o na players?hehe kinsa kaha na na cla nu if sakto man gani ko?hehe

RB for Rino Berame
ML for Michael Luga
kinsa mana c JS JS Prom?hehe

d pd cguro na s slaughter oi kay gregory man name ato? mau unta di na si jeff sanders hehe

[hoopster21]

Enrico Llanto... mao ba ni katong sinaligan sa USC?

o bai mao na xa...mao na xa...ganahan kau ko ani niya kay daku og lawas hahaha nya gwapo pa jd hehehe

[Liga Pilipinas]

NEW LIGA PILIPINAS LAUNCH DATE

MAY 31, 2008

Cebu City

www.ligapilipinas.net
www.friendster.com/LigaPilipinas

[digitalsuperman]

where can i buy the tickets? i want to watch the opening? and what teams will play during the opening?

[dieseldust]

d lagi mo display ilang website?

[hoopster21]

Here's the line-up of Zamboanga Latinos daw hehe kaya ra ni hehe joke!

Zambo City team gears for opening of Liga ng Pilipinas

The Zamboanga Basketball team (Latinos) finalizes its entry in the Liga ng Pilipinas which will kick off on May 25.

The Liga will hold its opening in three different cities across the nation. The 16-team tournament will be divided into two conferences, the northern and the southern conferences.

The northern conference is composed of eight teams from Luzon, while the southern conference will compose eight teams from the Visayas and Mindanao.

The Zamboanga team will enter its crucial stage this month as it tries to prepare for the opening of the league. The team is composed of the following players: (locals) Junie Navarro, David Sebastian, Tim Bascar, Ronald Saracho, Christopher Concepcion, Glenn Caindoy, Jonathan Parreño, Alvin Munio, Joemic Alvarez and Beng Amil; (ex pros) Jay Mendoza and Peter Naron, and (two imports from Cebu) Jeffrey Franz and Ting Daja.

The team is hoping that the local government will support its cause to further raise its chances in having a successful debut in a national league.

source: pinoyexchange.com

[randymunz]

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