GAB chair wants POC, PSC heads to mediate Games and Amusements Board chair Dominador Cepeda yesterday said he will call a meeting among top sports leaders to discuss the possibility of fielding professional players in the Asian Basketball Confederation championships this year.

Cepeda said he will ask Philippine Sports Commission chair Philip Ella Juico and Philippine Olympic Committee president Cristy Ramos-Jalasco to help him broker a meeting with the top basketball officials.

Basketball Association of the Philippines chairman Gonzalo "Lito" Puyat has been knocking the doors of the Philippine Basketball Association to allow its pros to play for the ABC slated in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in September.

But PBA Commissioner Jun Bernardino maintained that the pro league's commitment with BAP is only for the Asian Games participation. ABC men's, held every four years, is the qualifying for the Olympics.

"I will ask the contributions of the PSC and the POC regarding the matter and maybe we can call the BAP, PBA and everybody involved to sit down and talk things over," said Cepeda during the PSA Forum at the Holiday Inn-Manila Pavilion.

According to Cepeda, Puyat even proposed a longer training period of the professionals for the RP squad to enable the team to develop cohesion and teammork.

However, PBA owners may not agree with it since it would mean losing their key players for a long time. Cepeda said the PBA is also worried the Philippines may only suffer humiliating defeats if ever the country qualifies for the Sydney 2000 Games.

Powered by the PBA all-stars, the Philippines wound up second to China in the 1990 Asian Games in Beijing, while a reinforced San Miguel Beer team placed a far fourth place in 1994 Hiroshima Asiad.

The top two finishers in the ABC men's will represent the region in the Sydney Olympics.

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