Last year’s bubble tournament gave the PBA a chance to continue a tournament shuttered by the coronavirus pandemic. With Sunday’s rookie draft, the league gets a fresh reboot.
A total of 86 players will be up for grabs in the draft, all of them representing a chance returning sports to normalcy starting with the PBA, which hopes to complete a 10-month 46th season amid a health crisis that continues to rage.
“It’s far from normal, but we hope to get there,” PBA commissioner Willie Marcial told the Inquirer on Saturday. “At least with the draft, we’re doing something we used to do before.”
Joshua Munzon, a well-traveled 6-foot-4 guard who has represented the country in 3X3 tournam…
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