The Salary Cap situation has gone from bad
to worse. The war has now escalated to the Commissioner’s
Office and PBA Commish Chito Salud
wants Alaska Aces owner Wilfred Stephen
Uytengsu to show proof on his accusations.
With
this, the PBA office revealed that there are 15 players whose contracts are worth the maximum salary of 350,000 pesos.
If I
am a betting man (successful betting man), I’ll probably predict the 15 would
be like this:
Jay Washington
Arwind Santos
Dondon Hontiveros
Jimmy Alapag
Kelly Williams
Asi Taulava
James Yap
Kerby Raymundo
Joe Devance
Willie Miller...
Halfway
in the list though, I saw the twit of @thepbaologist
and he sent the following guidelines.
Alaska – 4
B-Meg – 3
TNT – 2
Meralco – 2
Air21 – 1
Powerade – 1
ROS – 1
BGK – 1
There
is no SMB/Petron player on the list?
WHAT
GIVES!?!
You
see the SMC squads should have the most expensive players because they have the
best players available! This is why it came as a shock to me that Alaska leads
the least and the Petron squad has zero.
Can
the reason for this anomaly be the “under
the table” scenario Uytengsu has been ranting for days now or are the execs
that could in terms of contract negotiations?
This
is the reason why they need to publicize the salary structure of the PBA.
Again
if I was a betting man, I’d probably think that the players with max salaries
are the following:
Alaska: LA Tenorio, Cyrus
Baguio, Sonny Thoss, and Tony Dela Cruz
B-Meg: James Yap, Kerby
Raymundo, and Joe Devance
TNT: Jimmy Alapag and Kelly
Williams
Meralco: Asi Taulava and Macmac
Cardona
Air21: Willie Miller
Powerade: Gary David
Rain or Shine: Gabe Norwood
Ginebra: Mark Caguioa
I hope
the real list is revealed soon.
Oh
wait.
Here
it is!
The
league just released the 15 players!
Kerby Raymundo, James Yap, Joe
Devance, Ranidel De Ocampo, Kelly Williams, Asi Taulava, Reynel Hugnatan, Mark
Caguioa, Danny Seigle, Sonny Thoss, Tony Dela Cruz, LA Tenorio, Jay-R Reyes,
Gary David, and Gabe Norwood.
Here’s
the problem!
Among
the players in the list, we have Thoss, Tenorio, Dela Cruz, Devance, and
Hugnatan. These five players were part of the Alaska squad at the start of the
season and they received maximum contracts because they want more money. To
lessen the salary cap struggle, Hugnatan went to the Bolts for Thiele who at
this point, is not a heavy payload. The unfortunate part for the Aces is that
Devance was traded for another max salary player in Jay-R Reyes.
This
is why the Aces will have no choice but to send either LA Tenorio or Sonny
Thoss elsewhere. Tenorio seems to be headed to B-Meg while Thoss can be the big
threat Ginebra is yearning.
The
Alaska owner has a valid reason for his rants. The current MVP of the league, Jimmy Alapag is not a max getter. The
runners-up for the prize Petron’s Jay
Washington and Arwind Santos are also not in the list.
Hell,
I wonder how Talk N Text will solve Jason Castro’s contract negotiations
because at this point, Castro wants to take his game and his worth on the next
level!
If
Uytengsu gives up on both players – the scariest thing will be inevitable.
I
think it’s safe to say that Alaska is on their way out.
Game
over.
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