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Mar 15, 2008 10:04 pm

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Liga Pilipinas merges 2 regional cage tourneys
Eala resurfaces

By Francis Ochoa
Inquirer
First Posted 03:07am (Mla time) 10/17/2007

MANILA, Philippines -- A new basketball league, one which casts a bright eye at the future and a wary one at the past, was born Tuesday following the announcement that two regional basketball tournaments have decided to merge.

It will be called Liga Pilipinas.

And at the forefront of the merger is a basketball personality who knows a thing or two about running a league and unifying two separate entities.

“Liga Pilipinas will be the new face of the effort to unify regional basketball in the country,” said Noli Eala, former Philippine Basketball Association commissioner and one of the key personalities behind the merger of the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas and the Basketball Association of the Philippines.

The league will be formed on a merger between the Mindanao Visayas Basketball Association (MVBA) and the National Basketball Conference (NBC). The two leagues have agreed to work toward a goal that will actually call for the dissolution of their tournaments.

“There’s no use really having two separate leagues to operate under a similar purpose,” said Olympian Nathaniel “Tac” Padilla.

Also present during the launch were Yayoy Alcoseba and Willie Generalao, who represented the MVBA, Tagaytay Mayor Bambol Tolentino and Tito Palma of the NBC, Misamis Oriental Gov. Oscar Moreno and Andrew Te, part of the organizing group.

The idea of a regional basketball tournament was first put to test by the Metropolitan Basketball Association in 1998. But the MBA crumbled five years later under the weight of excessive spending.

“We do not want to be hounded by mistakes of the past,” Eala said. “We do not want to commit the same follies.”

Although the league will start in the first quarter next year, several principles have already been agreed upon, among which is to curb expenditures.

Eala said a team in the new league will cost less than maintaining a Philippine Basketball League squad. In fact, running the league will cost less than half of what it takes to maintain a PBA squad for a year.

“I see it working on an annual budget of P10 to 12 million,” Eala said. “But I always try to find ways to cut costs so there’s a chance we can really, really go lower than that.”

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Mar 15, 2008 10:16 pm

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Ayos pareng jeps inumpisahan mo na. Eto din ang hinahanap ko eh.

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Mar 15, 2008 10:23 pm

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good intention on the part of Eala..

we have a lot of good basketball palyers everywhere in the Philippines but they don't have enough credentials tucked on them to be on the big league (PBA)..

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Mar 15, 2008 10:35 pm

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Syempre pareng kid... Basketball fanatic eh...

Ang dami ko na din nakitang article about sa Lig Pilipinas... Post ko ang iba maya maya...

Target date pala ng start nito is April 29... Tapos baka magsisimula sila with 16 teams... 2 conferences pa din... North and South... Pero dito, iiwasan daw muna na magkaroon ng teams within Metro Manila...

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Mar 15, 2008 10:48 pm

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Dapat kasi hinay-hinay lang muna baka kasi mamaya gusto na nila agad patumbahin ang PBA.

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Mar 15, 2008 10:53 pm

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Yan naman ang nilinaw ni Noli Eala... Hindi nila kukumpetensyahin ang PBA gaya ng ginawa ng MBA noon... Sabi nga ni taks dun sa MBA thread, nagsimula sila sa maling intensyon kaya sila bumagsak...

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Mar 16, 2008 04:32 am

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ayos to ah..sana kumpleto rin sa mga gadgets like yung team bus ng MBA galing nun eh pgumuuwi ako ng batanggas tapos dumaraan yung bus nung blades astig ang dating eh

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