CWBL regional basketball league patterned after the Metropolitan Basketball Association (MBA) is set to launch in August

AFTER a long wait, a regional basketball league patterned after the Metropolitan Basketball Association (MBA) is set to launch in August with backing from television network ABS-CBN.

Sources told SPIN.ph that the Countrywide Basketball League (CWBL) is set to unfurl on August 7 with an initial six teams from all over the country competing in the home-and-away format that has made the MBA a big hit among fans in the nineties.

LandMasters (Cebu), M. Lhuillier-Cebu, Manny Pacquiao-GenSan, Flying V-Davao, Anak ng Laguna and Mighty Sports-Bulacan will be competing in the debut season of the league to be supervised by legendary coach Joe Lipa, with lawyer Pablo De Borja as its founding commissioner.

The teams will play under Fiba (amateur) rules in a double-round robin eliminations to determine the four teams that will make the playoffs.

And with the home-and-away format proving to be a huge challenge financially during the MBA's glory years, the CWBL will have the home team playing two straight games on its homecourt every Thursday and Friday, with all the games to be carried by ABS-CBN Sports and Action.

source:spin.ph