The Philippine Basketball Association plans to have a running start to next year as early as the first week of January despite a cloud of uncertainty hovering over its next season.
The league is set to lift its moratorium on trades by Jan. 4, and finalize its pool for draftees by Jan. 27, according to commissioner Willie Marcial.
“This should enable teams to study how they’ll approach the Rookie Draft,” the league’s chief said in a recent Philippine Sportswriters Association forum.
Marcial had earlier told the Inquirer that there are still several questions that need to be sorted out as to how the next season will unfold. The league is looking at a closed-circuit season afte…
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