It's actually career and business and that's why who offers the best, that's where the best players will go. While the other teams, become farm teams.
I think there should be a revamp on the way on how they balance the teams and it should be the commissioners should step on it and make a way to also help those weak teams.
Players always dream to play with a decent team at first they will agree to play to any team inside the league but once opportunity comes and big franchise offers them a contract, they will not hesitate to take it and change their uniforms, it's more on the money side and if the league continue to play this way, there's nothing change to expect but to continue to see the dominance of these two big team owners,.
Remember, Shell, Sta.Lucia,Tanduay, Air21, Powerade and lately Alaska all are good and competitive teams before
but they choose to leave the league for whatever reason they may have but those are the days..
It's because they see the politics and there's no balance anymore. The problem is with the commissioners that still believe that they're on the right path in doing things and business. The good thing here is that PBA is already established but once another league emerges and most fans are already there and players transferring there, they know that it's like a sinking boat already.
Like what kind of revamp? Top teams like SMC and MVP are complying with the trade rules.
The Commissioner has the right to approve a trade but if the negotiation between teams and players both agreed, they can't just void the trade since what if the player really likes to accept the offer. Maybe the revamp should be to make everything balanced, involve a trade between players that really makes sense to trade, and not they will say it's fair.
For example, the time SMB got CJ Perez. I think at that time, SMB traded away some of their players that were not even used much and the PBA still called it a fair trade. That's where the influence of these top teams happened.
Yes, the revamp to balance each team. But the problem is all about the money that sometimes dominant teams have while the weak teams aren't willing to invest more for their better rosters.