The basketball season in Linden bounces off next Friday, January 27, with the Trophy Stall Basketball League, which is being held in collaboration with the Linden Amateur Basketball Association at the Mackenzie Sports Club hard court.
At the launching of the league at the Trophy Stall in Bourda Market it was revealed by President of the Linden Amateur Basketball Association (LABA) Eon Murray that the tournament mainly came about because of the lack of senior competition in Linden and will be played by all the senior clubs; namely Amelia’s Ward Jets, Black 22 Flames, Kings, Wismar Pistons, Half Mile Bulls, Victory Valley Royals and Retrieve Raiders.
“We running this league because of the absence of basketball at the senior level for quite some time in Linden…,” Murray disclosed. The league will be played by the seven teams in Linden.
It will see the teams playing against each other once before entering the top four round. The top four will be a round-robin round deciding the number one to four seeded teams in the competition and will pit the teams against each other in the semifinal round according to their seeding before the final match-up which will determine the best basketball team in Linden. The final is expected to be in February.
Meanwhile, Murray said that high-level basketball was expected. “Although the teams probably would have been absent and rusty, I expect as the league goes on… the rust will wear off and we’ll have good and proper basketball,” Murray commented.
Owner of the Trophy Stall Ramesh Sunich said he was happy to be cooperating with LABA and looked forward to making the league an annual feature on Linden’s basketball calendar.
“I’m happy to be associated with these guys and of course I’ll want it to be an annual event and with it being a league I’m impressed and it’s something I would put in front of most of the other tournaments because of its position as a league.
“I trust that the players involved in the league might be able to become professional players and take basketball forward and with this being the first tournament it can set an example for tournaments coming up especially in Linden,” Sunich said.
Meanwhile after the tournament bounces off on January 27, playing days will be every Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday en route to the final fame of the league.
