PBA commissioner Willie Marcial bared that the league is the opportunity of establishing a girls’s division anew within the 3×3 match.
The longtime sports activities official mentioned he’s presently in talks with unnamed sports activities personalities in hopes to convey again the ladies’s three-a-side tournet, which was already staged seven years in the past.
“May kausap ako three months ago [for] 3×3 na babae so nasa table pa,” Marcial mentioned within the Philippine Sportswriters Association (PSA) Forum on Tuesday.
“‘Yun din ang unang sinabi ko nung kakapasok ko pa lang, na mag-develop [ng liga] para sa mga babae kahit 3×3. So ongoing ‘yung talks namin at sana matuloy kasi isa ‘yun sa sinabi ko nung pumasok ako as a commissioner.”
PBA had featured the ladies’s 3×3 tilt in each convention of the 2015-2016 season, when all 12 energetic PBA golf equipment have been allowed to subject their respective 3×3 groups.
Blackwater Elite claimed the inaugural title within the Philippine Cup whereas NLEX captured the Governors’ Cup title. GlobalPort (now NorthPort) then took residence the final title through the Commissioner’s Cup. Unfortunately, the league did not return for a second season.
The PBA unfurled the lads’s 3×3 match again in November 2021 and it already staged two seasons with TNT Triple Giga rising because the Grand Slam winner within the second season. The 2023-2024 season is presently ongoing with Ginebra, TNT, and Cavitex claiming two leg titles every after the primary convention.
Reviving the ladies’s 3×3 league might additionally give avenue to nation’s prime cagers reminiscent of Jack Animam, Afril Bernardino, Janine Pontejos, and Mikka Cacho, all of whom have been a part of the nationwide crew that delivered a silver medal within the thirty second SEA Games final May in Cambodia.
—Bea Micaller/JKC, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
