PBA lines up provincial games

The Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) brings the exciting Philippine Cup action closer to provincial fans with a couple of new out-of-town stops.

Games in the newly-built Ynares Center in Montalban, Rizal as well as a playdate in Pampanga highlight the remaining elimination round schedule of the season-ending all-Filipino conference.

The league’s debut staging in Montalban on 2 May will be kicked off with a double-header featuring NLEX and Blackwater in the 5 p.m. curtain-raiser, followed by the 7:30 p.m. main game pitting grand slam-seeking TNT against Phoenix.

The PBA will return to the Rizal province venue on 18 May with Terrafirma facing San Miguel Beer in the first game before Rain or Shine takes on Magnolia.

Converge will play on its “homecourt” in Pampanga on 10 May against Barangay Ginebra.

The yet-to-be-announced game arena in Pampanga will give the FiberXers some semblance of a home game as their owner businessman Dennis Uy is a proud son of Angeles City along with incumbent Pampanga Governor Delta Pineda as assistant coach.

Games will also be held at Candon, Ilocos Sur and Cagayan de Oro.