April 26, 2024
Friday
STEPHEN Curry reportedly is unlikely to return to the Golden State Warriors this season following surgery for a fractured bone in his left hand in a game last November 1. The Warriors may be disputing the Bleacher Report but they could really shut him down for the season if there are no “competitive reasons” for […]
IT used to be “Strength in Numbers” for the Golden State Warriors during their five-year NBA Finals appearances that rewarded the Bay Area unit with three championships. With Kevin Durant, DeMarcus Cousins, Andre Iguodala, Shaun Livingston and Jordan Bell gone, and Klay Thompson expected to miss the bulk — if not all — of the […]
Where will Kawhi play? EXPECTEDLY, fireworks broke out at the start of the NBA free-agent negotiating period last July 1 (Manila time). After two days of twists and turns, a majority of the 170 free agents — including a handful of top-tier talents with maximum or super-maximum contracts — have been taken in free agency […]
JUST two days after the Toronto Raptors were crowned as the new NBA champions, here comes another development that could shake up the Western Conference landscape that has been the stranglehold of the Golden State Warriors for the last five seasons. Last June 15, the struggling Los Angeles Lakers finally reached an agreement to acquire […]
BASKETBALL action heats up as the NBA playoffs go deeper and deeper. I have been following the league over You Tube, watching those 12 minute highlights of past games, something that enables people to spend less time on the boob tube but getting the same results, and I am happy the PBA has also followed […]
THE 2019 National Basketball Association (NBA) playoffs are in progress with not much off-chart series results as every team that started its first-round best-of-seven duels with the homecourt advantage has either maintained or regained “home serve” — an incentive that rewards a team the right to play Game 7, if need be, on its home […]
ARE 29 teams in the forthcoming 2018-19 National Basketball Association season simply playing for second place? In a survey among NBA general managers, 87 percent of those polled said the Golden State Warriors would win their third straight title this season – and fourth in five years – this season and become the first team […]
TODAY, September 25 (PH time), is the first allowable date for veteran NBA players to report to their teams (no earlier than 11 a.m. local time). The following day (Sept. 26) is the start of training camp for all other NBA teams outside of Dallas and Philadelphia, which opened last September 22 as both are […]
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 […]
DOWN 0-2, LeBron James and the struggling Cleveland Cavaliers are in a must-win situation in today’s Game Three of the 2018 National Basketball Association (NBA) Finals against the reigning titlist Golden State Warriors at the Quicken Loans Arena. With the homecourt advantage, the Warriors grabbed a commanding lead in the best-of-seven duel by defeating the […]
THE reigning National Basketball Association champion Golden State Warriors have grabbed a commanding 2-0 lead over the Cleveland Cavaliers in the best-of-seven 2018 NBA Finals. The Warriors protected “home serve” with a pair of wins at the Oracle Arena. The Bay Area squad, winner of the Larry O’Brien championship hardware in two of the last […]