(c) PBA Media Bureau
The Philippine Basketball Association is going all out with their support of the national basketball team of the Philippines.
By going all out, the league is now preparing to stretch out the schedule of the upcoming season to more than a year.
That will surely happen if the Philippines will successfully get one of the seven reserved spots in the 2019 FIBA World Cup. If they meet the cut, the tournament will be scheduled from August 31 to September 15, 2018.
The upcoming season is scheduled to start by January 13, 2019 and according to commissioner Willie Marcial, it can end by January, 2020. Which means we already ate up a year because the upcoming season should only be 2018-2019.
With the kind of support that they are giving now to the national team, I hope PBA will realize that it is time to return to the two-conference format.
I have been campaigning about this for a while now. Two conference is much easier to fit with how FIBA is scheduling their events.
One of the points of the three-conference format is to provide Philippine basketball for almost a year. Now that FIBA is having an event in each quarter of a year, there is no need for the PBA to continue doing it.
Actually, I think the PBA fans will agree with me that the Governors' Cup and Commissioner's Cup feels like redundant already. We only need one reinforced tournament and an All-Filipino one.
Now, the grand slam is a thing in the PBA universe. We can still maintain the opportunity of getting a grand slam if the winner or even the finalists of the conference with imports will be sent to an international meet like the 2018 FIBA Asians Champions Cup that the Meralco Bolts will join this September.
It is time to end the three-conference format. For the sake of better PBA universe and our national team.
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