And finally,

The newly established Taiwan Professional Basketball League has announced the
fixture list for its inaugural season

The league has seven teams and includes teams that previously played in the
Plus League or the T1 League.

The opening regular season game sees Formosa Dreamers hosting the New Taipei
C-T-B-C D-E-A in Taichung in the afternoon of Saturday, October 19 and that
will be followed by the Kaohsiung Aquas' home game against the New Taipei
Kings.

The Taishin Taipei Mars and Hsinchu Toplus Lioneers will make their T-P-B-L
debuts the next day, while the Taoyuan TaiwanBeer Leopards will not play
until October 27, when they will face off against the Aquas.

According to the league, a total of 126 regular-season games will be played
from mid-October through May 18 next year.

The fifth-placed team will enter a best-of-three playoffs play-in series with
the fourth-place team, which will be granted a one-win advantage in the
series.

While the remaining playoff series will be a best-of-seven.

The postseason is set to begin on May 30.

The T-P-B-L is headed by D-P-P lawmaker Chuang Jui-hsiung.