April 19, 2024
Friday
THE game being the national pastime of many Filipinos, it is no small wonder that there have been many prominent athletes in local basketball history, whether it be in the collegiate, amateur/professional ranks or international competitions, since the sport was invented by Canadian James Naismith in Springfield, Massachusetts in December 1898. With the community home […]
The game being the national pastime of many Filipinos, it is no small wonder that there have been many notable athletes in local basketball history, whether it be in the collegiate, amateur/professional ranks or international competitions, since the sport was invented by Canadian James Naismith in Springfield, Massachusetts in December 1898. With the community home […]
The more episodes of “The Last Dance” that I watch, the more I am convinced that Michael Jordan took things and perceived slights personally. He despises Isiah Thomas and called him an “a__hole” simply because Thomas’ “Bad Boys” Detroit Pistons would not shake hands with Jordan and the Bulls after their series-clinching victory in Game […]
PHILIPPINE basketball history is rich with legendary athletes from the 1900s to the present time. However, local hoop followers, whether the young from the Generation X or the new wave of millenials, know not much from the halcyon days of local basketball. Filipinos reigned supreme in the biennial Far Eastern Games (FEG), winning nine of […]
In contrast to Scottie Pippen, Michael Jordan never uttered any unsavory remarks against the eccentric Dennis Rodman, a three-year teammate with the Chicago Bulls from 1995-98, in Episode 3 of the five-part, 10-episode The Last Dance documentary series aired on Netflix this afternoon. Rodman was a free spirit off the court and Jordan let “The […]
If Kobe Bryant were alive today, what would he say about “The Last Dance?” It has been 90 days since The Black Mamba met his untimely demise on January 26 in a fiery helicopter crash in Calabasas, California that also killed his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven other people. Gianna, a basketball athlete herself, was […]
Five previous NBA championships constructed by Jerry Krause with the Chicago Bulls were conveniently set aside to be able to produce a dramatic “The Last Dance” documentary regarding a sixth title finish in 1997-98 that, along the way, maligned the legacy of Krause, a Hall of Famer himself. Krause was egoistic and boastful, that’s true. […]
I watched on Netflix “The Last Dance” (Episodes 1 and 2) on Monday afternoon. The first two episodes were not really exciting to watch for me because I had known already most of the things that had happened during his NBA career except that part in his rookie year (1984-85) wherein he entered the Chicago […]
The 10-part “The Last Dance” documentary featuring Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls 1997-98 NBA championship season which will debut on Netflix on Monday, April 20, at 3 p.m (PH time), was the brainchild of an NBA Films producer by the name of Andy Thompson. Who is Andy Thompson? He is the brother of former […]
Two players on the ESPN’s top 100 high school rankings for Class 2020 have so far signed up to play on the special “Select Team” in the NBA G League for the 2020-21 season. They are No. 1 Jalen Green, a Fil-Am 6-5 shooting guard out of Prolific Prep, and No. 13 Isaiah Todd. Under […]
Will Kai Sotto join Fil-American Jalen Green on the Southern California-based “Select Team” in the NBA G League under a special one-year development program that will allow elite senior high school prospects to play only 10-12 games against G League teams that do not count in the team standings? Will Sotto jump to the G […]