April 25, 2024
Thursday
THE perennial powerhouse United States snared its fifth straight title with a 95-52 shellacking of France (6-1) in the championship game of the 2018 FIBA Under-17 Basketball World Cup held in Argentina. The Americans have not lost a game since the inaugural staging of the biennial tournament in 2010, owning a 37-game winning streak to […]
THE back-to-back National Basketball Association (NBA) titlist Golden State Warriors have $127 million in salaries committed to eight players for the 2018-19 season. Heading into the summer, the Warriors have six free agents at the moment and are certain to exceed the league’s projected salary cap of $101 million even if back-to-back Finals Most Valuable […]
IT’S a win-or-go-home survival game for the reigning National Basketball Association (NBA) titlist Golden State Warriors and the playoffs’ top-seeded Houston Rockets as they battle each other today (Manila time) at the Toyota Center in the decisive Game Seven of the Western final series. Golden State, which had dropped two consecutive games in the series, […]
OAKLAND, California — Umiskor ng 30 puntos si James Harden at nagdagdag naman ng 27 puntos si Chris Paul para pamunuan ang 95-92 panalo ng Houston Rockets laban sa Golden State Warriors kahapon sa Game Four ng NBA Western Conference finals. Tabla na ang kanilang best-of-seven series sa tigalawang panalo. Nakuha ng Rockets ang panalo […]
I’M back after a two-week hiatus from journalistic inking. With much respect to the Celtics faithful, this is simply my two cents’ opinion. Indeed, the Boston Celtics have acquired Kyrie Irving (from Cleveland in a trade) and Gordon Hayward (from Utah in a sign-and-trade free agency) during the National Basketball association (NBA) offseason, but “How […]
WHILE National Basketball Association (NBA) teams have been negotiating with veteran free agents and reaching trade agreements since the free-agency derby began last July 1, no contract signing can be consummated until noon of July 6 (or July 7, 12:00 a.m., Manila time) when the league-imposed moratorium ends and the league’s team salary cap for […]