PBA board meeting in danger of being scrapped

All PBA plans and proposals may well remain on hold as the PBA board of governors may not be able to muster a quorum to push through with its supposed planning session here on November 14.

Even the transfer of the league chairmanship from GlobalPort’s Mikee Romero to NLEX’s Ramoncito Fernandez may have to wait as the arrival or non-arrival of the in-coming chair has been a guessing game here.

San Miguel Beer’s Robert Non, Star’s Rene Pardo, Blackwater’s Silliman Sy and Meralco’s Ryan Gregorio were the only governors who were with the bulk of the PBA delegation that flew in Los Angeles last Friday.

Alaska Milk’s Dickie Bachmann, Barangay Ginebra’s Alfrancis Chua and GlobalPort’s Erick Arejola left Manila ahead of the delegation. It’s uncertain, though, whether each of them is availing their rooms at Hotel Sofitel along Beverly Blvd.

As the board remained in a stalemate in their dispute over the tenure of PBA commissioner Chito Narvasa in a meeting Wednesday, Mert Mondragon of Rain or Shine, Raymond Zorrilla of Phoenix Petroleum and Patrick Gregorio of TNT KaTropa already begged off from joining the LA trip.

Kia’s Bobby Rosales is swinging over from another US state. —