April 26, 2024
Friday
Pinagmulta ng $15,000 ang star ng Los Angeles Lakers na si LeBron James dahil sa isang “malaswang” sayaw at nagbabala rin ang mga opisyal ng National Basketball Association matapos na siya ay magbitiw ng mga bastos na salita sa isang press conference. “LeBron James has been fined $15,000 for making an obscene gesture on the […]
BASKETBALL Hall of Famer Charles Barkley disagrees with the plan of Kyrie Irving, the outspoken but injured guard of the Brooklyn Nets, and Dwight Howard, a valuable center reserve for the championship-contending Los Angeles Lakers, not to return to complete the 2019-20 NBA season. “It will be a catastrophic mistake for NBA players not to […]
WITH the National Basketball Association (NBA) in a prolonged game suspension, allow me to bring you to memory lane with some of the most interesting facts in league history. As great as Shaquille O’Neal (28,596), Moses Malone (27,409), Elvin Hayes (27,313), Hakeem Olajuwon (26,946) and Oscar Robertson (26,710) had been during their heyday, none of […]
PLAYING without their top six scorers, including reigning NBA MVP Giannis Antetokuonmpo, who was out with a knee injury for a second straight game, the NBA-leading Milwaukee Bucks (53-12) dropped a 109-95 road decision to the Denver Nuggets and suffered their first three-game losing streak of the season. The Los Angeles Lakers, who beat the […]
IT’S nice to be happy. I caught the game between the crosstown rivals Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers Monday morning (3:30 a.m.) via Facebook live streaming (ahem, for free). It was beamed from a Vietnamese NBA fan with Laker leanings. Never mind that the fella was at times talking aloud during the U.S.-fed […]
THE Milwaukee Bucks finished the month of February with a 10-2 record. Bucks franchise maker Giannis Antetokuonmpo became the second player in NBA history to average 25 points and 15 rebounds for a month without losing a single game he played, joining Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who turned in the trick in March 1973 while with the […]
THE 2020 NBA All-Star Game to be held at the United Center in Chicago on February 17, 9:00 a.m. Manila time marks only the third time in NBA All-Star Game history (since 1951) that the Windy City plays host. The first two came in 1973 and 1988, both at the Chicago Stadium. The league had […]
IT was a horrible news. I had hoped it was only fake news. But the reality was it was not. RIP Kobe Bryant. The all-time Los Angeles Lakers and National Basketball Association (NBA) great died in a fiery Sikorsky S-76 helicopter crash in foggy conditions at 10:00 Sunday morning Pacific time (2:00 a.m. January 27 […]
THE year 2019 ends today and the year 2020 unwraps tomorrow, that is according to the Gregorian calendar. It is a solar calendar that is named after Pope Gregory XIII and is used in most parts of the world since October 1582. It consists of 12 months and there are 28 to 31 days in […]
PASOK si reigning World Boxing Association (WBA) super welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao sa Top 10 ng highest-paid athletes sa mundo ngayong patapos na dekada. Si Pacquiao ay nasa ikawalong puwesto sa highest-paid athletes in the world ng dekada 2010-2019. Ayon sa Forbes magazine/Forbes.com si Pacquiao ay kumita ng US$435 milyon sa huling sampung taon. Sinabi […]