EXECUTIVES and officials of the Philippine Basketball Association are currently holding their annual planning session in Seoul, South Korea.
Led by Commissioner Chito Narvasa, the league delegation is currently mapping out their platforms for the upcoming 2016-17 PBA season that will start on Nov. 20 with the season-opening Philippine Cup.
Team executives, led by incoming PBA chairman Mikee Romero, owner of GlobalPort and outgoing chair Robert Non, San Miguel’s governor, are brainstorming with league officials as they all aim on sustaining the momentum of the league which it got from an overwhelming run towards the end of the Governors’ Cup.
Several topics are being tackled in the four-day session that started last Wednesday and will conclude on Sunday.
Subjects that are being discussed are the tournament formats for the three conferences, marketing strategies, officiating, height limit of imports in the reinforced conferences.
Narvasa aims on making the PBA a “center of excellence” in terms of professional basketball in the region.
“What we can do is to improve the league even better and establish it as the premier basketball and entertaining organization in the region an beyond,” he said during his speech in the recently concluded PBA draft.
Meanwhile, solid big man JR Quinahan agreed to a two-year deal max deal with GlobalPort and he can now look forward to the upcoming season.
Following a stellar and a steady showing in the past season, Quinahan seeked for the mentioned deal with former team Rain or Shine.
But the Painters didn’t give him that and instead, surprisingly traded him to the Batang Pier for veteran Jay Washington several weeks ago.
Now, Quinahan’s stint with his new team is secured as negotiations finally came at a happy end.