SBP: No Games? Ok lang!
SBP: No Games? Ok lang! When you have a full calendar of activities all laid out and ready for implementation, it makes things easier in terms of planning, managing and eventually running these events. Right? Wrong! The calendar may be ready for implementation but if it didn’t foresee the arrival of COVD 19, it’s totally useless. This is the scenario that the sports world found itself in this year. How ironic it has been indeed for what should’ve been a “perfect vision” year 2020. This was exactly the dilemma that hit the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas and all other national sports federations that already had 2020 locked and loaded, only to find out that around 90% of its activities would have to be either cancelled or postponed. And like all organizations, they asked themselves, “What do we do?” With everyone pivoting and finding other platforms for its activities, the SBP paused, scanned the scene, re-grouped and navigated through the pandemic. When it was clear that no real ba