Philippine Small Basketball Association League
The Philippine Small Basketball Association League (PSBAL) is a men's professional stressball-division basketball league in the Philippines composed of eight franchised teams. It was the second professional stressball-division basketball league in Asia and is the fifth oldest in the world. The league's regulations are a hybrid of rules from FIBA.
History
After the stressball-division basketball got popular in the Philippines to kids, The Philippine Small Basketball Association decided to create a league for some talented kids for the stressball-division basketball. It was founded on May 1, 2014 at Las Pinas City, Philippines. Its headquarters are located there too.
The league's games are held at the PSBA Arena.
Season format
The league has the same format as the Philippine Basketball Association. There's no season champions. The league has 2 competitions to be held every year. The PSBAL Cup and the PSBAL Reinforced Cup. When the same team are the champions of The Two competitions, They achieve the Grand Champion award. Similar to the Grand Slam of the Philippine Basketball Association.
On the PSBAL Reinforced Cup, All teams are required to hire an import to play for their team. Also every year, All of the teams will waive one player from their roster after the season. The waived players will be replaced by a new player on the PSBAL Draft. The inaugural draft will be held sometime in 2015.
The team must have six players on their roster. It will be seven when an import is added on the roster of the team.
Current teams
The teams of the PSBAL consists of eight teams. Like the NBA, It also have two conferences. The Mammals Conference and the Reptiles Conference. Teams of these conferences must at least include a name of a mammal/reptile on their team names.
Philippine Small Basketball Association League current teams |
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Team |
Mammals Conference |
Catz |
Dogz |
Tigerz |
Cheetahz |
Reptiles Conference |
Crocos |
Geckos |
Lizards |
Iguanas |