A Wasted Basketball League

It was 1998,  the year that I had just finished my 6th grade. There was a professional basketball league in the Philippines called Metropolitan Basketball Association or MBA. The teams  represents a city, province or island not a product or business company.

Fourteen years after, I surfed the net for some images that will help me for some photo editing and among the images that were loaded was the MBA logo (seen on the left side).

Then I told myself, "Sayang to...". 

This league has potentials of being a basketball league in the country that has a magnitude of an NBA type of league. The league brought basketball closer to the people because their respective places were represented as a team. The league also contributes to tourism of a certain province or city. Since, the beautiful scenery or tourist spot were featured during breaktime of the leagues' broadcast.

The league was broadcast by a powerhouse company ABS-CBN. That made MBA reached the people and its supporter easily with its broadcasting capability.

MBA made noise that even PBA players transferred to MBA which gave players higher salaries.

PBA superstars were also rumored about joining an MBA team. Some of them did just that.

Everything seems good until year 2002 when ABS-CBN withdrew funding for the league. Then everything fell apart.

What happen to MBA? some said that it was not well managed. Some said that the expenses was really high that its very hard to maintain.

Whatever reason there was, MBA is a wasted basketball league. In fact, it is a great basketball league that was defunct.

PBA is also a good league, with its 37 years of existence and history nobody will question it. Especially now that it is reviving, people are more involve which is evident in its increased of income and all that. In fact, I'm a PBA supporter and a B-MEG fan (now SANMIG COFFEE MIXERS).

PBA teams represents companies, the league should be called PRODUCT BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION instead of PHILIPPINE BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION. 

I have nothing against PBA.

I think there should be a system revamp (some sort of it..) of the league since it is called PHILIPPINE BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION then stand for it.

People in provinces don't even care about PBA, the reasons?...

1.-They don't own the company that the team represents, why bother.

2.-They are not living in a place called BARANGAY GINEBRA or BARAKO BULL.

3.-I'd rather support NBA teams since we have a relative in CHICAGO.

I love PBA. I guess if the management of PBA today was handling MBA before, I think it was a success it will not defunct.

PBA Management/Supporters + MBA type of teams/idea = NBA type of league in the PHILIPPINES.

Can you imagine the impact...the supporters...the market. BOOOM!..

Yes, the market will increased..because there will be more people involved..people that are living in areas or places that the teams will be representing. 

GOOD for BASKETBALL

GOOD for PBA

GOOD for TOURISM

GOOD for BUSINESS/MARKET

most of all

GOOD for the PEOPLE!