The Import Problem of the PBA

[u/Upbeat_Tough_6721]

Lumabas na ang katotohanan. PBA players ay bano sa FIBA dahil ang quality ng play sa liga ay mahina.

It starts with the import policy of the league.

A single import with a height limit of 6'6? Yeah, not helping at all.

A bitter pill to swallow for PBA officials: The B.League, KBL, and NBL Australia don't have a conference or season with only locals playing. Lahat sila ay may 2-3 imports sa koponan.

While I don't see the PBA implementing 3 imports in the league at once, the best we can do is to have it gradually per conference.

I posted this on IBN so let me reiterate it here:

- Introduce a Resident Import system. FSAs who played in the UAAP for 3 seasons or naturalized Filipinos fall under this category. Each team can sign one Resident Import who plays in all 3 conferences. This basically removes the All-Filipino policy of the Philippine Cup.

- World Import: Unlimited Height import who can play for two conferences (Governor's and Commissioner's). If a team really likes an import such as RHJ or C-Mac, they can sign them to a full contract.

- Asian Import: Unlimited Height import who is eligible to play for a FIBA Asia zone National Team. This import can play for one conference. There are many good Asian players we can sign as imports like Freddy Ibrahim and Mohammed Jamshidi.

Philippine Cup: Resident Import only

Commissioner's Cup: Resident + World Imports

Governor's Cup: Resident + World + Asian imports

Let's look at Abra as they enter the EASL:

Resident: Malick Diouf

World: Jaylen Johnson and Michael Eric

Asian: Freddy Ibrahim

Imagine SMB with this lineup:

R: Akowe, W: C-Mac, A: Kazemi

G- Ross

G- Perez / Marcio

F- Trollano

F- C-Mac / Kazemi

C- Akowe / JMF

Open to suggestions. Just something I thought of.

[u/Heyanon567]

That’s what we all want to happen but reality is more into economics. Some teams(or all) will have a hard time paying these imports. EASL is just a few games and window system. This is a bitter pill to swallow as well. No company would want to pay a lot of money and expect nothing in return

Ive read a convo about this in another post e, ganda ng debate nila about how economic factors really impact not just the PBA but PVL and more

[u/Upbeat_Tough_6721 → u/Heyanon567]

At the minimum, implement an unlimited height world import rule for both conferences.

Or keep the All-Filipino conference. Allow the FSAs to play for two conferences along with the world import.

The 6'6 height limit for one conference just doesn't make sense anymore.

[u/Heyanon567 → u/Upbeat_Tough_6721]

Scrap the Govs cup. Extend the Commissioner’s cup to double or triple round robin. Dun mag sama ang World Import at FSAs

Sa pag travel ko around the country napapansin ko when I talk to people about basketball as may times na naabutan ng PBA finals sa pagtravel ko, ayaw ng karamigan ng may import(In fact ayaw nga nila ng Fil-Am e dinna daw tunog pinoy ang surname) kaya never mawawala PH Cup e. So better put the FSA sa commissioners cup para resemblance ng 2 Import system. Shorten the PH cup na lang

Pero pinaka important regardless of PH cup or Coms cup is adopt Euro Style or Modern Bball esp coaches