Fans are paying attention to see if the ‘returned’ Lee Chung-bok (left) and Cha Yu-ram (right) can be selected by the team again in this PBA Team League draft. Photo = Billys and Sports DB
[빌리어즈앤스포츠=김민영 기자] With the ‘2024-2025 Season PBA Team League Draft’ just a week away, the interest of PBA billiards fans is growing.
This is because the fate of Lee Chung-bok, who returned to life on the last day of PBA Q-School, and the members of the disbanded Blue One Resort team has not yet been decided.
Lee Chung-bok, who moved to the PBA in the 2023-24 season, had the worst season. In the individual tour, the season ended without a single win, and High1 Resort, who served as captain, was 8th out of 9 teams.
In particular, Lee Chung-bok, who failed to stay in the first division due to a poor solo trip, was automatically released from the team. Although he dramatically passed Q-School on the last day of PBA Q-School and confirmed his stay in Division 1, he is still undecided if he will be able to stay in the PBA Team League.
In addition, Kim Im-kwon and Kim Tae-gwan also passed the PBA Q-School and stayed in the first division tour, but it is not clear if they will be re-nominated to the team.
Seo Han-sol and Kim Min-young from Blue One Resort.
It is not yet known if all the Blue One Resort players who change uniforms to Woori Financial Capital will survive in the PBA team league, or if some will inevitably be replaced.
The team’s key players, ‘Cambodia Express’ Thong Piavi and David Zapata (Spain), are expected to be able to stay in the team, but it is not certain whether we will see the combination of Seo Han-sol and Kim Min-young again in the PBA team league.
The future of Jin-ah Kim, whose position in Hana Card was greatly reduced last season, is also a topic of interest in this draft. Jina Kim, who was pushed out of the team by the recruiting of Ayako Sakai (Japan), spent the last half of the PBA team league and most of the postseason on the bench.
Interest is also focused on the choice of NH Nonghyup Card, who needs to reinforce one player due to Oh Seong-wook being removed from Q School, and it will be interesting to see if new faces will be recruited from the Welcome Savings Bank and the Haitai Crown, where Kim Im-kwon and Kim Tae-gwan are empty.
Lee Shin-young begins full activities on the LPBA tour in the 2024-25 season as a priority registration player.
In particular, the return of Cha Yu-ram, an original member of the Welcome Savings Bank, is also a hot potato in the PBA draft.
Will the Savings Bank Welcoming, which already has three female players including Choi Hye-mi, Kim Ye-eun, and Higashiuchi Natsumi (Japan), drop one of these three and choose Cha Yu -ram, or will Welcome Savings Bank give up. another player? Will the team choose Cha Yu-ram? As the draft approaches, the battle for insight among each club is expected to intensify.
However, one’s risk of being released is also another’s chance to enter the PBA team league. Players who performed well last season, including Park Ki-ho, who showed his true worth at the PBA SK Rent-a-Car Jeju World Championship and Lee Shin-young, a former ‘Cushion World 3 Women’s Champion’, are wait this draft with expectation.
Meanwhile, the PBA Team League draft for the 2024-2025 season will be held at the Korea Press Center on the afternoon of the 14th.
(Photo = Billys and DB Sports)
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