Read that in the news and since there's a video, YES it's true. Several PBA players voiced their concerns about that issue.

But I'm disappointed with the aftermath. Should be penalized all players and coaches of both teams. And guess what, the reason of that guy missing intentionally his free throw is, he is just frustrated that's why his shot turned into the worst. A big lol to him. Short-term suspension isn't enough. Should be years or kicked them out of the league.

They must be very ashamed of themselves after what they did.

I will just cite some scenarios that happened which is very obvious that this is fix game.
1. Free Throws of one team is just hitting the board and not the ring. Its also obvious that they aren't really have the intention to shoot it.
2. One team is just wasting their time when they are holding the ball. Whenever they have the ball, they are just wasting it and in the end the opposing team will steal it causing a turnover.
3. There are also times that the one team is free and it is a fastbreak but he can't shoot it. He is free but he can't shoot it?? Sounds obvious. There is also one instance where a player is free to shoot and he made a hook shot from about 5 ft away from the ring but the ending?? It is an airball and take note the defender did nothing on it but stand but it ended up still as an airball.

These 3 are just a few of the obvious reasons that the game was fixed probably because of this online bets. Do I believe on this. Its obvious so yes and in fact one team has been banned and the other is just suspended and both of them are fined 1 Million each.

PBA players also reacted with this. They really are just ruining the sport that they loved, that we are love to play. Its the first time to have a league like this in VisMin but they did this. Shame on these people.

TBH, i didn't watched the video though i saw some clips but i don't want to see the whole thing they do to disgrace the game.

Just my analysis, i believed that players/coaching staff from the Siquijor team knows that the game was rigged while players from Lapu-lapu team didn't because of the things that they do were so obvious. It you intentionally missed free throws, you know that people would noticed that and that's not a good acting in a rigged game.

Nevertheless, it is still a very bad game to watch and it's just fitting that GAB ordered an investigation and punished those people behind this.

If they are betting against themselves, then they should already had made money on this.

The question is, if the fine is just monetary, it would be easy for them to get away if they bet millions on that game.
What bookies are actually accepting bets on this particular league in the Philippines?

I'm just curious as I haven't bet on this game yet.

They're taking this seriously and this serves also as a warning if there are still some of them that are involved with such.
If they are taking care of their career while being part of a team and the league itself, they should take care of their reputation and won't agree to be part of such a dirty game which many of us don't like.

Bookies will never get affected, they are in control of the line and they can always minimiz the risk by balancing both sides. It's the bettors who loss on the losing team will sacrifice but bookies will continue to make money. Also, they can limit the market of this bet if they found it unreliable, but would not totally remove it from betting market.

Maybe, they are always in business to offer us a chance to gamble no matter what the reputation of the game, as long as the public is betting and the action can be balance, bookies will take this as an opportunity, nice explanation mate, these people really are clever, more clever than those who are rigging sports.

They might be but if another thing happens, I'm sure that will be the time that they will start to consider removing most of them or those teams that have an ugly history.
And if that time comes for sure many will be disappointed not unless the sportsbooks doesn't care about this kind of anomaly.

Good news.

Crucial PBA board meeting to decide season format, new opening date


Maybe soon we will know when and what format will be this coming new season, this is the update that we are all waiting for, maybe this week we will see the decision.

Well at least we are seeing the BOD doing some things just to push the season amid the pandemic.
One season at least for the year would be good already but pushing it into 2 seasons would be better although it would cost them more money.

The best action that the management can do just to discipline them is to just expel them or ban them and for me, that is a good decision because they can destroy the reputation of the sport.
Will the game-fixing will be cleaned?? As much as I believe it will, I don't think knowing that they don't know which game are fixed and which are not. Its just that this controversial game consists of players who don't know how to act thus, its obvious that they are game fixing .