{"id":269022,"date":"2020-09-17T06:30:03","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T10:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=269022"},"modified":"2020-09-17T06:30:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T10:30:04","slug":"pba-players-support-bubble-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/09\/17\/pba-players-support-bubble-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"PBA players support bubble proposal"},"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 schedule of the games will likely be tackled too in the PBA board meeting. (File photo: Markus Spiske\/Unsplash)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Players from the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) expressed their support for the proposal to continue the league&#8217;s postponed season inside a bubble.<\/p>\n<p>In a dialogue with Commissioner Willie Marcial on Wednesday, the players said they are fine being secluded in only one place just for the PBA&#8217;s 45th season, which has been stalled for six months now, to finally resume amid the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Lahat sila willing maglaro sa<\/em>\u00a0NBA (National Basketball Association) type bubble or semi-bubble.\u00a0<em>Ayaw nila ng<\/em>\u00a0closed-circuit (All of them are willing to play inside an NBA type bubble or semi-bubble. They do not want a closed-circuit system). They requested to do away with it,&#8221; Marcial said.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA is so far successful in implementing the bubble system inside the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando, Florida as none of the league&#8217;s players has contracted Covid-19 at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Marcial will bring the players&#8217; plea to the PBA board of governors on Thursday in its meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Also to be discussed will be the location of the proposed bubble.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, three undisclosed venues made the shortlist, and on Thursday, the board will tackle which among the three will officially host the bubble.<\/p>\n<p>The schedule of the games will likely be tackled too in the PBA board meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Marcial bared that the possibility of a compact schedule is now gaining traction.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re looking at finishing the eliminations in one month, then the quarterfinals in four to five days, then best-of-five (semifinals) and best-of-seven (finals),&#8221; Marcial said.<\/p>\n<p>With Marcial&#8217;s proposed schedule, it is likely that the games will be played daily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 Players from the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) expressed their support for the proposal to continue the league&#8217;s postponed season &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-269022","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\/269022","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=269022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269026,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269022\/revisions\/269026"}],"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=269022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}