After the PBA decided on their own to stop the games at the early days of August, the PBA finally found a path to a re-start.
The current plan is to start by August 29, in Pampanga, Philippines, and the set-up will be semi-bubble. The way will be to let the teams find their own hotel and they will be the ones to take care of their expenses.
A crucial issue though has risen. According to the plan, the players, though one of the team captains LA Tenorio, will handle a portion of the expenses.
This decision was met by a lot of eyebrow-raising as several players and some sources revealed that the majority of the players were not informed.
Although, the biggest issue here could be the incapacity of the league to run a semi-bubble. For a league considered as the #1 in the country, this is a bad look.
It speaks a lot about the possibility that a much longer pandemic may actually end up totally crashing the financial capacity of the league.
What if we still have up to 2022 in this situation, can the players continue to provide for the league? How will the players feel if one of their own suffered an injury and ended up not getting a new contract after his contract ends?
The league is really walking in a slippery slope. A slope that may end into the demise of the league.
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