April 26, 2024
Friday
TO the uninitiated, Charles Henry (Chuck) Cooper was the first African-American to be drafted by a team in the American professional league National Basketball Association (NBA). The Boston Celtics selected Cooper with the first pick in the second round of the 1950 NBA draft – the 14th pick overall – on April 25, 1950. Before […]
THE blacks – or specifically African-Americans – have become the masters of the game of basketball. Earl Lloyd broke the color barrier in the National Basketball Association (NBA) by becoming the first black man to suit up in the American professional league on Halloween night in 1950. And more historic firsts by African-Americans were later […]
ONCE a lily-white American professional basketball league, the National Basketball Association (NBA) is now dominated by African-Americans. The NBA, as a matter of fact, owns the highest percentage of black players in any of the four major pro team sports leagues (Major League Baseball, National Football League, National Hockey League and the NBA) in the […]
BILL Russell is to the National Basketball Association (NBA) what the late Carlos Loyzaga is to Philippine basketball: GOAT. My choice of Russell as the American professional league’s greatest of all time may elicit violent reactions as many would put Michael Jordan ahead of 1960s star Russell in GOAT conversations. But Jordan was a beneficiary […]
I AGREE with the decision of national team head coach Tim Cone to get the best ingredients of an ice cream from his Barangay Ginebra factory for the men’s basketball team that will be defending its title in the multi-sport 30th Southeast Asian Games to be held in Manila, Clark and Subic from November 30 […]
STOP the malpractice or else… the National Basketball Association (NBA) is coming after you with a more hefty punitive action. The days of player tampering may be over after the NBA Board of Governors unanimously approved last September 20 (September 21 Manila time) a tougher set of measures that will upgrade fines for tampering by […]
ACCORDING to National Basketball Association (NBA) commissioner Adam Silver, all league press releases from hereon won’t include the term “owner” to describe ownership of an NBA franchise. This move is being taken to avoid any racial or slavery connotations allegedly arising from usage of the word “owner” as once insinuated by Golden State Warriors forward […]
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 […]
EXPECT a lot of money to be thrown away – good or bad – after the National Basketball Association (NBA) opened its door to free agency on Monday July 1 (6 a.m.), Manila time. When everything is said and done, the money spent during the NBA free-agent sweepstakes could well surpass the $4.1 billion shelled […]
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 […]
OKLAHOMA City Thunder wunderkind Russell Westbrook has averaged a triple-double for the past three seasons in the U.S. National Basketball Association. A 6-foot-3 backcourter, Westbrook is only the second player in NBA annals to register a triple-double for an entire campaign, duplicating the feat of “The Big O” Oscar Robertson, a 6-foot-5 playmaker who turned […]