PBA chairman Ricky Vargas made the marching orders to commissioner Willie Marcial during its annual meeting in Paris and was announced during the Season 48 press conference at the Diamond Hotel on Tuesday, Oct. 17.
The PBA is now ready to open its doors to at least two new teams as part of the league’s long-term plans.
Putting the cherry on top to the season that also saw the league’s revenue growth reach pre-pandemic levels was the gold medal conquest of the PBA-backed Gilas Pilipinas team in the 19th Asian Games. The expansion of the PBA has been long clamored by fans not only to reinvigorate interest in the league but also to bolster the competition among the existing 12 teams.
Marcial said in one of the Philippine Sportswriters Association Forum last August that the league can actually accommodate at least four more teams and that there has always been interest from companies to join the PBA – two of which already reached out to the league.
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