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HARBOUR CENTRE owner Mikee Romero announced Friday
that his team won’t play in the Jones Cup next month due to the
conditions imposed by tournament organizers.
One of the conditions stated that
members of the Harbour Centre-RP team should not engage other team
in a fight.
“Keep discipline as it happened
before that your team [RP] had fight against other teams,” the
Jones Cup organizers said in their letter emailed to Samahang
Basketbol ng Pilipinas.
Romero had earlier expressed his
interest to send Harbour Centre to the Jones Cup to test the
tournament’s level of competitiveness.
“It’s an insult to our
organization, much more to our national team, so I’m backing
out.”
“It’s their prerogative as
hosts to impose conditions but just because we’re an amateur club
they will treat us that way, I think it’s not fair,” said
Romero. “It’s very disadvantageous to any RP team.”
The other condition is that
Harbour Centre will pay the airfare of its 17-member delegation
which is the normal practice of the organizers.
“I’m willing to pay for the
airfare of the team but do I have to do it just to play with them?
If we’re not welcome to their tournament, then sabihin lang nila,”
said Romero.
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