Bay Area Dragons announce PBA return in this year’s Commissioner’s Cup

By Leobert Julian A. de la Peña

Foreign guest team Bay Area Dragons will be looking to avenge its last conference’s loss after confirming that they will be joining again in the upcoming 2023 PBA Commissioner’s Cup.

The Hong Kong-based professional basketball squad announced the latest development last July 19, 2023, via an official team statement.

Fresh off a painful Game 7 loss at the hands of the Barangay Ginebra San Miguel during the last Commissioner’s Cup, Bay Area is eager this time to bounce back and win the championship title.

Bay Area’s team captain Duncan Reid even said that this conference will be their redemption season after exiting the last game of the finals in a disappointing manner when they got crushed by the Gin Kings during Game 7, 114-99.

However, the Dragons are yet to confirm if they will be bringing the exact roster that they fielded during the past Commissioner’s Cup.

The last lineup featured a high-octane team who likes to shoot from the outside and can also score efficiently from the shaded lane led by former NBA talent Myles Powell.

Powell’s latest active professional hoops activity was during the 2023 NBA Summer League when he rendered his services to the Houston Rockets.

Despite an injury-plagued stint with Houston, Powell still earned his minutes and was able to crack into the rotation of the Western Conference team.

Bay Area’s return to the country’s biggest professional hoops league was also a delight to the current commissioner Willie Marcial who is throwing his full support regarding their comeback.

“The PBA is very excited about adding in a Hong Kong element to our upcoming Commissioner’s Cup, and we look forward to the Bay Area Dragons team re-joining the PBA,” Marcial said.