May 17, 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 […]
THE National Basketball Association (NBA) has been inactive since the American professional league suspended play last March 12 for a minimum for 30 days due to the global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic that has struck more than 150 countries, including the U.S., which at the moment is being plagued by the virus in at least seven […]
THE American professional league National Basketball Association (NBA) has been without game action since March 12 (March 13, Manila time) due to the global coronavirus pandemic that has so far infected seven players – namely, Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell of the Utah Jazz, Christian Wood of the Detroit Pistons, and Kevin Durant and […]
THE National Basketball Association (NBA) took the lead by suspending its regular-season games for at least a 30-day period starting March 12 (March 13, Manila time) amid the global coronavirus disease that has infected three players so far — initially Frenchman Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell of the Utah Jazz and then later Christian Wood […]
PLAYING without their top six scorers, including reigning NBA MVP Giannis Antetokuonmpo, who was out with a knee injury for a second straight game, the NBA-leading Milwaukee Bucks (53-12) dropped a 109-95 road decision to the Denver Nuggets and suffered their first three-game losing streak of the season. The Los Angeles Lakers, who beat the […]
JA-WOR-SKI. JA-WOR-SKI. One of the greatest players in Philippine basketball history, Robert (Sonny) Jaworski, marks his 74th birthday on Sunday, March 8. Greatness came early for The Big J, the son of a Polish father and a Filipino mother who as teenager was already making waves not only in the local cage scene but also […]
THE Milwaukee Bucks finished the month of February with a 10-2 record. Bucks franchise maker Giannis Antetokuonmpo became the second player in NBA history to average 25 points and 15 rebounds for a month without losing a single game he played, joining Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who turned in the trick in March 1973 while with the […]
THE Detroit Pistons are now in a full rebuilding mode. A house fire sale it has become for the Motor City squad following the trade of center Andre Jamal Drummond and subsequent buyout agreements with guard Reggie Jackson and forward Markieff Morris. Just minutes before the NBA trading deadline last February 6, the Pistons shipped […]
WITH various issues besetting the NBA and in the aftermath of the deaths of former commissioner David Joel Stern (age 77) and all-time Los Angeles Lakers great Kobe bean Bryant (age 41) last month, this was one controversy that the NBA did not need to have – an anomalous manipulation of the scores of […]
ALLOW me to bring you to memory lane while awaiting the resumption of the high school basketball leagues I have been covering since October. Yesterday when I was young was one of the happiest moments in my life. Care-free my life was as a youngster (up until I came out of high school in 1972). […]
THE 2020 NBA All-Star Game to be held at the United Center in Chicago on February 17, 9:00 a.m. Manila time marks only the third time in NBA All-Star Game history (since 1951) that the Windy City plays host. The first two came in 1973 and 1988, both at the Chicago Stadium. The league had […]