Is the PBA (Philippine Basketball Association) losing it's prestige? Charisma?  

I think of a lot of factors why many people doesn't troop to the playing venues as they used to. Some of the factors are the one's you have mentioned. Another that I can add is the economic situation in our country. Because of inflation, economic crisis, retrenchment, and other things, people need to prioritize their basic need before entertainment. I think it is true in many sports events and not only in basketball. But I agree with you that there may be something lacking in which, when improved might bring back the crowd that troop to the game venue when their teams are playing.

hello there boybato, I was never a fan with Basketball, but my brother and my cousin is. i have watch a few games in the Basket only a few times when i was a kid because my elder brother was watching it and back then it was a bit different because there wasn't any sort of foreign players that much in the game and it was intense too. but when i got to college, i got more interested in the NCAA because my school was one of them teams playing. i have seen a few players from my school ended up in the PBA but there aren't as good as they were when they were just in the NCAA.besides, college most not-basketball fans prefer NCAA and UAAP than PBA.

A lot of factors should be considered why it seems that the PBA is losing it's charisma. During the glory days of the Crispa-Toyota rivalry, fans were more passionate about the sport, come rain or shine, fans will still watch. Another factor would be the excitment level of the fans. Pure-homegrown talents like Robert Jaworski, Mon Fernandez, Bogs Adornado up to the time of Samboy Lim, Allan Caidic, Alvin PAtrimonio, etc certainly made watching the PBA very exciting to watch... But now it is a different story, although there are still a lot of talented and exciting players now, one difference nowadays is that we can watch the NBA almost everyday and sometimes at the same time with the PBA... That way I see it, the PBA board must come up with more exciting promos and marketing strategies that would generate interest once again... Also, impose stricter disciplinary measures among all the teams because attacking a fan is not good for image building.

The interest of Filipino fans started dipping when the Fil Shams entered the league. Most of the rosters are Fil Americans so the Filipinos lost the connection with players. Those days, PBA had the Captain, Big J, the Triggerman, The Skywalker, who Filipinos can relate to. PBA should start balancing teams, since most of the good players are under San Miguel Corp teams and Talk and Text which I heard will enter a second team also owned by Manny Pangilinan.

only san Miguel corporation has all the best teams in the pba
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