An opening ceremony like no other awaits PBA fans when the Asia’s first professional league raises its curtains for its 38th Season on Sept. 30 at the Smart-Araneta Coliseum.
“It will be one of the best, if not the best opening rites our fans will witness in the 38-year history of the league,” newly-named PBA chairman Robert Non said during yesterday’s Scoop session.
“The ceremony was designed to conform with the league’s main focus this season and that is to bring back to the playing field to our fans who made the pro-league as it is now — the biggest sports and entertainment show this part of the world,” Non, representative of the popular Barangay Ginebra in the PBA Board of Governors, told his audience in the public service forum.
“I just cannot reveal the details yet today, but suffice it to say that all the 10 teams in this year’s cast will be contributing their share to make our opening a moment to be remembered for a long time,” Non, who came to the SCOOP session with Purefoods’ Rene Pardo and team manager Alvin Patrimonio and the Gins coach Siot Tangquincin, said.
Pardo, himself a former PBA chairman, concurred with Non’s pronouncement, saying, after enjoying themselves with the opening day “palabas” the fans, both old and new, will keep coming back to see the games.
Pardo, also, announced that the Purefoods franchise, which played carrying the banner of B-Meg the past three seasons, will be known starting this year as the San Mig Coffee Mixers, a product of SMC subsidiary San Mig Super Coffee Mix Inc.