Mascariñas elated Minda leg to proceed

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ALL’S well that ends well.

Chooks-to-Go owner Ronald Mascariñas is elated that the Mindanao leg of the 2021 Chooks-to-Go Pilipinas VisMin Super Cup is set to proceed after it was initially suspended by the Games and Amusements Board.

Mascariñas, whose firm is sponsoring the new pro league, said suspending the Mindanao leg would have been a big blow to players down south and deprive them livelihood in these grim and dreary times.

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The Mindanao leg is set to kick off on May 30.

“I am more than delighted that we are closing in on the opening of the Chooks-to-Go Pilipinas VisMin Super Cup’s Mindanao leg. For the longest time, Mindanaoans have wanted a basketball league that they will call their own and it’s about to happen,” Mascariñas told Malaya-Business Insight yesterday.

“This will open up more opportunities for players in the countryside to showcase their talents and earn a livelihood as professional basketball players,” he added.

Suspicions of the presence of game-fixing in the league were raised after two teams — Siquijor and ARQ Builders-Lapu Lapu City — figured in a mockery of a match in the Visayas leg last month at the Alcantara Civic Center in Cebu.

The GAB put the Mindanao leg under the microscope but eventually gave the green light.
Mascariñas thanked everyone for working for “the good of basketball.”

“Kudos to the organizers of the VisMin Super Cup and the GAB for working together for the good of basketball,” he said.

“Truly, all of us are partners in helping build our future through sports.”

The NCAA, UAAP, and even the PBA, are in limbo due to the health perils and uncertainties brought about by the unseen but vicious enemy.

In a blatant travesty of the sport Filipinos treat as a religion, players muffed free throws and botched open lay-ups, with the Heroes’ Rendell Senining shooting free throws with his left and right hand on separate occasions, both of which he badly missed.

Banishment from the league, suspensions, and fines were handed out to the erring players and coaches.

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