BOARD TACKLES GILAS ISSUE
The pro league looks at ways to be of more help to the World Cup-bound Gilas Pilipinas as the PBA Board of Governors convenes in another meeting at the PBA Office in Libis, Quezon City Thursday.
To be discussed specifically is the idea of Board chairman Mon Segismundo for the league to let Gilas Pilipinas play as the 11th team in the third conference of the current PBA season.
Segismundo asked members of the Board to digest that option in their most recent meeting. But there are other options likely to be put on the table in their Thursday meeting.
SMC official Robert Non, for one, has sounded off his own idea to just hold a separate tournament involving Gilas at the end of the 2013-14 PBA season.
Apparently, there’s also a group that would just bat for the further compressing of the third conference schedule to free up more time for the training period of the National team.
The PBA would play on almost daily basis in the season-ending tourney under this scheme.
The status of the PBA membership applications of Team KIA, Blackwater and NLEX is another major topic up for discussion in the meeting.
“But it would still be a long process. Some Governors would still report it to their principals. We would need probably one more meeting to make a decision on that,” said one Governor. (SB)
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