PBA imposes three-year ban on Navarro for joining KBL

WILLIAM NAVARRO braved on to Korea despite a looming PBA ban on players joining other leagues.

- John Bryan Ulanday

Mr, Navarro on Wednesday plunged into the training camp right away of his newest club Busan KCC Egis in the Korean Basketball League (KBL), shortly after parting ways with Magnolia and the whipping of PBA’s surprising resolution amidst a new wave of player exodus.

“Fulfilling the dream,” said Mr. Navarro’s agency, the Titan Management Group on his signing.

Mr. Navarro, who met his teammates for the first time in Busan’s first camp in Yongin City near Seoul, is expected to be one of the affected players from PBA’s new ruling, which imposes a three-year ban on players who refused to sign with their mother PBA clubs despite a contract offer to jump ship to other leagues — local or foreign — instead.