April 19, 2024
Friday
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 […]
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 […]
AS in the previous years, there are five games to be played on Christmas Day (December 26, Manila time) in the National Basketball Association (NBA). These are: Boston at Toronto (1:00 a.m. MT), Milwaukee at Philadelphia (3:30 a.m.), Houston at Golden State (6:00 a.m.), Los Angeles Clippers at Los Angeles Lakers (9:00 a.m.) and New […]
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 them breached the 30,000-point barrier during their distinguished careers in the National Basketball Association (NBA). In NBA regular-season annals, only seven men have collected at least 30,000 career points. […]
IF it’s any consolation to the Lakers Nation, the top four all-time leading scorers in National Basketball Association (NBA) regular-season history have suited up the colors of the Los Angeles Lakers at one time their distinguished pro career. The Fantastic Four are Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Karl Malone, Kobe Bryant and now LeBron James, who surpassed His […]
LIKE a 50-point game, a triple-double performance by an athlete during a basketball contest is something special that easily attracts a lot of attention from hoops fans. And it becomes even more mind-boggling if a player is able to AVERAGE a triple-double for an entire season such as what Oscar Robertson (The Big O) and […]
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 […]
THE basketball statistic “assists” is usually dominated by point guards or maybe forwards with outstanding passing skills. That’s why it is rare for a center – designed by most teams to do work off the glass or act as their rim protector – to pace a professional league in that department for an entire season. […]
A NOSTALGIC moment it will be in the National Basketball Association today (December 18, U.S. time) when the Los Angeles Lakers honor one of their all-time greats, Kobe Bean Bryant, with the retirement of the two jersey numbers he wore during a distinguished 20-year tenure with the only franchise he had played for. To be […]
FROM Tuesday’s Hoopster dish, here are more memorable moments in National Basketball Association (NBA) history in the month of October. October 19, 1961 – Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia (now Golden State) Warriors began a streak of 126 consecutive games with 20 or more points. The streak, which included an all-time league single game record […]