April 25, 2024
Thursday
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 […]
THERE are two key events in the NBA on Friday, February 8 (Philippine time). First, there’s the NBA trading deadline at 3 a.m. and then the 2nd NBA All-Star Draft at 7 a.m. The All-Star draft, which will be nationally televised – unlike a year ago when the selection process was held in confidentiality for […]
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 […]
FOR all his much-publicized shooting woes, Los Angeles Lakers rookie Lonzo Ball has already set a new National Basketball Association (NBA) record this early into the 2017-18 wars. Last November 11, Ball became the youngest player in NBA annals to collect a triple-double (double figures in any three of the five major statistical categories) when […]
AFTER acquiring four days earlier the No. 1 overall selection in this year’s National Basketball Association draft from the Boston Celtics in exchange for their own No. 3 pick and another future first-rounder (2018 or 2019), the Philadelphia 76ers expectedly corralled University of Washington’s much-coveted freshman Markelle Fultz with the first pick during the annual […]