The timing is normal if there's no pandemic, what I mean, the cold weather after new year was there before. We are not afraid of cases like this

before at it was expected due to this climate changes, but because of covid, most of us are scared thinking that we are affected or infected by this

new omicron variant, and for that, hospitals are also taking advantage, the very chance that even with a normal flu and headache they can admit

you with omicron findings.

PBA commissioner just did the right thing, is for the best of everyone inside this league, they don't need to rush in terms of deciding,

waiting now for the final update.

If the government can contain the current spread happening in NCR then provably we will not see NCR to remain at alert level 3 but for now I guess all still fine since January 15 is not quite far and maybe at the end of their set timeline we can see the PBA continue and also for sure they know how to handle the situation since they concerned authority know how to handle this cases since they already experience more worse than this.

Oh, I wish the government learn from that past 2 years of this virus existence, even it's a new variant hopefully they are more prepared now and have good set plans to avoid wide spread of this virus, if eve that happened we may see PBA here in metro but in case alert would not change PBA still have options.

They can use bubble set up and continue while waiting for another call from the government.

Either they will wait or they will proceed with another set up, we just have to wait for now..

The rate of spreading of Omicron is even faster than the Delta even though the severity of it is lesser than that of Delta. Just this day, there are new 17,220 cases and the positivity rate is around 36.9% which means 1 out of every 3 people who are having their swab test ending up being positive.

For PBA, worst case scenario is they will enter the bubble again which I think might be possible but will the BOD try to go that route knowing that they might have lesser revenues. They can't afford to stop the conference anymore because they started it already and one thing more is that franchises will not allow it. Lets just see how the management will deal with this and I'm pretty sure that they will do everything to at least finish this conference.

They are indeed manipulating the data and I think, this is the real scenario since they just lower the cases to give way to holidays so many business will be able to earn some profit before the year end. Though the total case today is surprising, I believe a worst case scenario can still happen and it can totally affect PBA especially this conference.

only the situation in NCR could tell, if the cases will not stop rising, then most likely the IATF cannot make a decision about the resumption of the conference, but there's always a bubble, PBA has to make a quick decision to shift into that set up if they want to return the soonest possible time.

Can't say TBH. I'm just saying what the media is saying. Maybe the government is lying or not we don't know.
I don't want to say that they are manipulating the data either because we already know how fast this Omicron spreads and even though right now we only have 43 cases base on this article, we already have a local transmission meaning the virus is everywhere especially in the NCR.

Whether they are manipulating it or not doesn't matter at least for me because what matters is our safety still. Whether it is 17,000 or 10,000 or even lower, there is still the deadly shitty virus out there. Its very surprising though that the cases tripled in just a span of 2 days.

Breaking news:

Japeth Aguilar signed a three-year extension deal with the Gin Kings ending the speculation that he would play in Japan B-league.

In the social media post of Snow Badua, he stated that Japan B-league teams has increased the offer to 30K USD per month for the Gin King's forward to play for them.

With this signing, only Robert Bolick is the one left that speculated to play in Japan which i don't think will happen.

This is a good news for the PBA as the teams has made their move to retain their talent in the Philippines.

https://www.spin.ph/basketball/pba/ginebra-signs-japeth-aguilar-to-fresh-three-year-contract-a2244-20220106?ref=home_hybrid_2

Yes, that's a good move from the team owner, securing their talents and not to let them sign another contract with another league.

I'm sure it's a tough decision for the players and their agent if the amount that is being said was true, 1.5M PHP per month is not a small

amount. If I remember it correctly, the max of any stars only ranges from 300PHP-500PHP. Not sure, though, but it won't go to 1M PHP

including all those perks and behind the desk deals..

Another great big man is added to the SMB lineup.

Brondial signs with SMB after Alaska parting of ways


Great Pick up by the SMB I would say, Brondial is a tough player, he can bring some energy with the SMB and he is a good back up when their main big man will rest.