{"id":251536,"date":"2020-04-07T21:25:47","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T01:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=251536"},"modified":"2020-04-07T21:25:47","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T01:25:47","slug":"pba-shortens-season-45-due-to-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/04\/07\/pba-shortens-season-45-due-to-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"PBA shortens Season 45 due to Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_240750\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-240750\" style=\"width: 767px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Lucena-to-host-Game-2-of-PBA-Governors-Cup-Finals.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-240750\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Lucena-to-host-Game-2-of-PBA-Governors-Cup-Finals.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"767\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Lucena-to-host-Game-2-of-PBA-Governors-Cup-Finals.jpeg 767w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Lucena-to-host-Game-2-of-PBA-Governors-Cup-Finals-300x196.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, 767px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-240750\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The development was a result of an online meeting conducted by the league&#8217;s board of governors together with Commissioner Willie Marcial on Tuesday. (File photo: Markus Spiske\/Unsplash)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The Philippine Basketball Association will be compressing its 45th season as the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) continues to hamper the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>The development was a result of an online meeting conducted by the league&#8217;s board of governors together with Commissioner Willie Marcial on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The leaning of the board right now is two conferences.<em>\u00a0Pero kapag humaba pa ang<\/em>\u00a0current situation,\u00a0<em>baka maging isang<\/em>\u00a0conference\u00a0<em>na lang<\/em>\u00a0(But if the current situation lengthens, maybe it will be down to just one conference),&#8221; Marcial said, baring the two scenarios that could take place.<\/p>\n<p>The two-conference format, the Philippine Cup and one import-spiced tournament was last used by the league in the 2009-2010 season before former commissioner Chito Salud introduced himself in the post by reviving the three-conference format for the 2010-2011 season.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the single-tournament format is similar to the one being used in the National Basketball Association and even in the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League.<\/p>\n<p>Only one game was played so far in the season, the opening night game between San Miguel and Magnolia on March 8.<\/p>\n<p>Three days later, just hours before a scheduled doubleheader was supposed to take place, Marcial announced the postponement of the games due to Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>He then announced a two-week postponement of team practices, which he later extended indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p>Marcial said on Sunday that he is aiming to resume the games as early as June.<\/p>\n<p>The PBA board will once again convene on April 30, the last day of the extended enhanced community quarantine, to finally decide on the season format to be used.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The Philippine Basketball Association will be compressing its 45th season as the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) continues to hamper &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":240750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","mauthors-ivan-stewart-saldajeno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251537,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251536\/revisions\/251537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}