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- Metropolitan_Basketball_Association abstract "The Metropolitan Basketball Association (MBA), or Metroball, was a professional basketball league in the Philippines founded in 1998.Unlike the Philippine Basketball Association, in which teams represent companies, the MBA teams represent a particular city, province or island in the country. The league brought basketball closer to the people, and it raided the PBA for talent.The MBA is widely viewed as broadcast giant ABS-CBN's attempt to undermine the PBA after failing to snatch its broadcast rights in 1998. Metroball allowed foreigners to play for their teams, not requiring Philippine passports of them, nor requiring those foreigners to have Filipino blood. All the league required is that these players be born in the Philippines. As a direct result of this practice, the MBA and its foreign-born players began attracting attention away from the PBA, forcing the PBA to escalate their own players' salaries and practically rendering the PBA draft useless through a "direct hiring" process. This allowed PBA teams like Talk 'N Text and Tanduay to negotiate directly with MBA players or MBA prospects (like Asi Taulava and Sonny Alvarado) for their services.However, the league folded on 2002 due to extremely high expenses on funding a regional basketball league, and most especially when broadcast partner ABS-CBN withdrew funding for the league. Several players went to the semi-professional Philippine Basketball League en route to the PBA.".
- Metropolitan_Basketball_Association country Philippines.
- Metropolitan_Basketball_Association formationDate "1998-03-07".
- Metropolitan_Basketball_Association foundingYear "1998".
- Metropolitan_Basketball_Association participant "16".
- Metropolitan_Basketball_Association participant "RCPI-Negros Slashers".
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- Metropolitan_Basketball_Association wikiPageWikiLink Visayas.
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- Metropolitan_Basketball_Association wikiPageWikiLinkText "MBA Games".
- Metropolitan_Basketball_Association wikiPageWikiLinkText "MBA Most Valuable Player".
- Metropolitan_Basketball_Association wikiPageWikiLinkText "MBA National Championship".
- Metropolitan_Basketball_Association wikiPageWikiLinkText "MBA on NBN".
- Metropolitan_Basketball_Association wikiPageWikiLinkText "MBA".
- Metropolitan_Basketball_Association wikiPageWikiLinkText "MVP".
- Metropolitan_Basketball_Association wikiPageWikiLinkText "Metropolitan Basketball Association".
- Metropolitan_Basketball_Association caption "MBA logo".
- Metropolitan_Basketball_Association champion Negros_Slashers.
- Metropolitan_Basketball_Association folded "2002-07-26".
- Metropolitan_Basketball_Association founded "1998-03-07".
- Metropolitan_Basketball_Association hasPhotoCollection Metropolitan_Basketball_Association.
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- Metropolitan_Basketball_Association pixels "200".
- Metropolitan_Basketball_Association sport Basketball.
- Metropolitan_Basketball_Association teams "16".