In 2016, the Japan Basketball Association will launch a new professional men's basketball league, it announced on Saturday evening.
In Tokyo, the sport's governing body in Japan revealed the basic outline for the pro circuit, which is being tentatively called the "P league."
The actual blueprint for the new league is not so complex, but few real details are known at the moment. This is what has been revealed: The P league will begin play for the 2016-17 season, while the JBA also tackles restructuring the domestic leagues in a pyramidal shape. Thus, the JBA plans to form "the A league" and "the B league" as lower leagues below the P league.