April 26, 2024
Friday
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 […]
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 […]
I AM sure basketball fans remember the 1992 Dream Team at the Barcelona Olympics fielded by the Americans consisting of the finest NBA stars like Michael Jordan, Clyde Drexler, Larry Bird, Earvin “Magic” Johnson, Scottie Pippen, David Robinson, Patrick Ewing, Charles Barkley, Karl Malone, Chris Mullin and John Stockton. It was a real All-Star team […]
THE NBA Players Association will soon have its 5th Players Voice Awards night. Maybe the players will vote for fellow American James Harden as their own Most Valuable Player for the 2018-19 season to appease the sour-graping Houston Rockets who claimed that Harden, the league’s back-to-back scoring champion, was robbed of the official NBA award […]
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 […]
THE Los Angeles Lakers are eyeing their own Big Three for the 2018-19 NBA season that unwraps in mid-October this year. The team wants Cleveland’s LeBron James, San Antonio’s Kawhi Leonard and Oklahoma City’s Paul George via free agency or a trade. James and George are eligible for unrestricted free agency by July 1. As […]
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 was the fourth time that I have witnessed on television a gruesome player injury on a basketball floor, the most recent of which was what happened to All-Star forward Gordon Hayward yesterday during his Boston debut (following seven seasons with the Utah Jazz) and in the opening game of the National Basketball Association’s 2017-18 […]
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 […]
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 […]
OKLAHOMA CITY — Umiskor si Russell Westbrook ng 30 puntos, kabilang ang left-handed hammer dunk sa harap ni Clint Capela sa mga huling segundo ng laro para tulungan ang Oklahoma City Thunder na talunin ang Houston Rockets, 105-103, sa kanilang NBA game Huwebes. Lamang ang Oklahoma City ng tatlong puntos nang dumakdak si Westbrook sa […]