Salud eyes another banner year for PBA
When one book closes, another one opens.
With the huge imprint left by the league’s past 40 seasons, PBA president Chito Salud could only feel optimism on the league’s further growth as it opens another season on Sunday.
“The closing of the PBA’s 40-year chapter has set the stage and the PBA cannot but be off to a great start this year as it looks toward building an even stronger legacy of exciting games, groundbreaking performances, and regional and global representation our fans can enjoy and be proud of,” he said on Tuesday at the PBA Season 41 preseason press conference at Diamond Hotel.
A huge change is also upon the league, set to open on Sunday at Smart Araneta Coliseum, as the PBA ushers in a new era with commissioner Chito Narvasa now in charge.
“The opening of the PBA’s 41st season has a distinct feel of change in the air, of a new and fresh beginning – indeed a palpable sense that the PBA is gearing up yet again for an even stronger, more colorful, more dramatic, and definitely precedent-setting 40-year run in its rich and proud history,” Salud said.
The former commissioner said that with the groundwork already laid out along and with the innovations set to be implemented this year, things could only get better for the league.
“The PBA has barely scratched the surface of its full potential to becoming that iconic institution that has parlayed the Filipino fans’ unparalleled passion for basketball into something that inspires, ennobles, uplifts, and sets standards for what is excellence in our national life,” said Salud.
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