SHOULD the Philippine Basketball Association have allowed this deal to proceed?
And now that the controversial Romel Adducul-Enrico Villanueva trade has some board members from other teams up in arms, what should the PBA do?
Well, the PBA board will be tackling in a special meeting Thursday the Restricted Trading List (RTL) rule that the Romel-Rico deal allegedly violated.
Here’s an excerpt from Musong R. Castillo’s story for the Philippine Daily Inquirer:
Saying that “we’ve been through bigger problems than this,” chairman Ricky Vargas of Talk ‘N Text Sunday expressed confidence that all tensions will die down and that matters will be resolved in the meeting.
“The gentlemen of the board will be able to sit down and discuss things,” Vargas told a select group of scribes before their game against San Miguel Beer at the Araneta Coliseum. “I granted the request for a (special) board meeting to clarify certain issues.
“And the issue here is the RTL, not the trade which I think is just a consequence,” he added.
Buddy Encarnado of Sta. Lucia Realty and Joaqui Trillo of Alaska voiced out their displeasure on Friday regarding the Villanueva-Adducul swap, which they thought violated the RTL the very first time it was supposed to be implemented.
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hhhmm, i think there’s something fishy in the trade.. we cant deny that rico is much higher caliber than adducul.. there might be a problem with the rb management. im just wondering why rb keep on giving their stars-miller, tugade and now villanueva.. who will be the net?
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Peter
I dont think they should allow trades in the middle of the season or at least during the entire season. I believe its wrong and it affects the performance of a player whether or not the trade favors him. Imagine those bignames and big time scorers looses its momentum and so much for the loyalty in his team. I felt like there is no security of tenure (although its a fact that there is none) that one morning when you wake up you have the other teams uniform hanging in front of you, then you have this feeling of thinking whether youre still in dreams or reality. Much worse is sometimes we cant prevent fans and other people to think that there is not so much in the PBA but politics and business (profit) rather than SPORTS. I guess thats the meaning of joining the PROS. I wish all these are not true.
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