Hopeful that it can still open its 46th Season next month and play a two-conference calendar, the PBA, though, is also bracing for the worst.
A board meeting has been scheduled next week to tackle the scenarios that the pro league is facing and one of them is not being able to open in May for the Philippine Cup, which would reduce the league to a one-conference year again and make it mandatory for the league’s leadership to revisit its finances.
That would mean cutting down on expenses, which could inevitably include the salaries of players and team staff and that of the Commissioner’s Office.
“We will discuss the financial state [of the PBA] in that meeting as well as…
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