Liga Pilipinas...A New Basketball League

[hoopster21]

sure ka?

[digitalsuperman]

Quote: Originally Posted by dieseldust ^^^as usual, woodrow enriquez, danny aying, stephen padilla, bruce dacia, marlon piodo ug ang walang kakupaskupas nga si daryl smith! hehehehe.....

ataka anang daryl smith oi... senior citizen naman na siya..

[amamangloy]

cebu should consider junmar fajardo, greg slaughter, enrico llanto, rino berame, gudez, justiniani, abellanosa, canceran, juliane, if pwede ang mga collegiate players for this league, pero im sure dili pa ni pwede sila...

[hoopster21]

some of the youngsters in the lhuillier line up are llanto, jayford rodriguez, i once saw niño ramirez suit up as well as lyndon gudez...but for reasons i don't know ramirez and gudez just come and go hehe the Cebu line-up should be a good mixture of youngsters and veterans with enriquez running the show, padilla and dacia providing some firepower, marlon basco and capati manning the shaded lane...rodriguez and llanto providing some instant offense and quality minutes off the bench....nope their is no darryl smith this time...fajardo, slaughter, zanoria can wait...di najd magsilbi negros nato ani hehe

[dieseldust]

knsa sad kha ang mga players sa Negros sa? Basin ila i-recruit c Asaytono ug Gahol..hhehehe! O d b kaha c Maui Huelar ug John Cardel...rivalry napud

[dieseldust]

New Update

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/cag...pilipinas.html

[slakker]

good luck to this league...

[mab]

up lng

[dieseldust]

Liga Pilipinas starts May 23 in 3 key cities


By Roy Luarca
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 03:32:00 04/16/2008

MANILA, Philippines—Liga Pilipinas, a community-based basketball league seeking to develop talents from the countryside, kicks off on May 23 to 25 in three key cities of Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.

Made up of 16 teams representing North and South, the league will hold two conferences lasting four months each per season.

Representing the North are Luzon teams Ilocos Sur, Baguio, Pampanga, Taguig, Cavite, Batangas, Laguna and Rizal. Comprising the South are Cebu, Mandaue, Bacolod and Iloilo (Visayas) and Misamis Oriental, Zamboanga, Davao and Ozamis (Mindanao).

Conceptualized by former Philippine Basketball Association commissioner Noli Eala, Liga Pilipinas allows each team to have 14 players (12 to play), including two former professionals and a foreigner with Filipino roots.

“There’s still a lot of talent in the regions,” Eala said in Tuesday’s PSA Forum at Shakey’s UN Avenue.

He said that Liga Pilipinas doesn’t intend to go head-to-head with the PBA just as the Metropolitan Basketball Association did from its birth in 1998 to its demise in 2002.

“I think the MBA became too eager to compete with the PBA,” said Eala. “That will never happen with the Liga because how can you compare yourself with a 33-year-old league.”

The board of Pinoy Basketbol Inc., which owns Liga Pilipinas, is made up of chair Nathaniel “Tac” Padilla, vice chair Misamis Oriental Gov. Oscar Moreno, treasurer Jose Soberano, Michelle Lhuillier, Tagaytay City Mayor Bambol Tolentino, Tito Palma, Andrew Teh, Jean Teh, Eala, and three representatives from team owners.

source: inquirer.net

[Liga Pilipinas]

MAAYONG ADLAW mga higala sa Visayas ug Mindanao, please support Liga Pilpinas.
The basketball revolution begins May 23, 2008 at a venue near you!

[dieseldust]

^^we're looking forward to this league bro..I like regional basketball!

[Liga Pilipinas]

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Introducing the founders, the men initially behind Liga Pilipinas (from top left, clockwise) -- Commissioner Jose Emmanuel "Noli" M. Eala, Misamis Oriental governor Oscar S. Moreno, businessman Michel J. Lhuillier of M. Lhuillier, businessman Jose "Joe" R. Soberano III of Cebu Landmaster Inc., Tagaytay City mayor Abraham "Bambol" Tolentino, Olympian and national shooting champion Nathaniel "Tac" O. Padilla of Spring Cooking Oil, Coach Bertito "Tito" T. Palma and Cebu City Councilor and multi-titled coach Raul "Yayoy" D. Alcoseba.

[Liga Pilipinas]

“A geographic, club-based league that is community-managed and supported – and endowed with commercial and local government funding principally patterned after EuroLeague basketball.

. . . together . . .

. . . we shall create a basketball league that is uniquely Pinoy – dominated by the Filipino youth’s exuberance, punctuated by Pinoy color and wit and overflowing with the indomitable heroic spirit of the Filipino.

. . . we shall have a perfect venue for grassroots development of the sport of basketball and begin a whole new concept of “club teams” in commercial sports.

. . . we shall present a fresh and viable concept of sports marketing and the use of sports in a truly integrated and effective advertising strategy for niche markets and target communities.

. . . we shall promote sports tourism in the country-side which will generate countless opportunities for economic growth and social development.

WE WILL GIVE BACK TO THE FANS WHAT THE FANS HAVE GIVEN TO BASKETBALL.

[basketballer]

Good Noli is behind the league........ and Cebuanos is blessed with Mr. Soberano of LandMaster and to Hon. Yayoy this is your challenge bec. in theory all your championshiop accolades is not relevant

[randymunz]

Quote: Originally Posted by digitalsuperman ay batia..commercial teams diay ang name sa mga team? dili diay sama sa Cebu Gems? pwedi man dili na nila gamiton ang Cebu Gems..lain napud.. Like, Cebu Lechons, Cebu Otaps, Cebu Ampao's or Cebu Dried Mango's... basta naa lang cebu payts na..

pwede pud Cebutyok...