June 01, 2024
Saturday
SCORING 50 points in a National Basketball Association (NBA) seems rather easy nowadays. And the 1,230-game regular grind of the 2019-20 season has yet to make it past the All-Star break in mid-February. Damian Lillard, the high-scoring All-Star of the Portland Trail Blazers, had three of such kind in February, including a league-season high 61 […]
WHAT a tragic January it had been for the NBA family. There were a pair of deaths involving an NBA personality during the month. Crossing the Great Beyond were the following: Former NBA commissioner (1984-2014) David Joel Stern, who died on New Year’s Day after collapsing due to brain hemorrhage last December 12. Kobe Bean […]
BEFORE Kobe Bryant, the last NBA active or retired player to die from an air crash was Nick Vanos on August 16, 1987. Then 24 years old, the 7-foot-1 Vanos, a native of San Mateo, California and a product of Santa Clara University, was a member of the Phoenix Suns when the Northwest Airlines Flight […]
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 […]
JUBILEE Christian Academy boosted its title-contending status with a stunning 71-59 victory over erstwhile unblemished Saint Jude Catholic School last Sunday in the Boys Juniors division of the 7th Philippine Ching Yuen Athletic Association (PCYAA) basketball competitions at the Uno High School gym. It was the third consecutive victory in as many assignments for the […]
Team Standings: Boys Juniors Basketball – Pace Academy (2-0), Saint Jude Catholic School (2-0), Jubilee Christian Academy (1-0), Grace Christian College (1-1), Uno High School (0-1), St. Stephen’s High School (0-2), MGC New Life Christian Academy (0-2) and Philippine Cultural College (X-X) Girls Juniors Volleyball – Pace Academy (2-0), MGC New Life Christian Academy (1-0), […]
WITH David Joel Stern’s passing on New Year’s Day (January 1) afternoon (U.S. time) at age 77, all four predecessors of current NBA commissioner Adam Silver have crossed the Great Beyond — Maurice Podoloff (the league MVP hardware is named after him), J. Walter Kennedy (the NBA Citizenship Award is named after him), Lawrence O’Brien […]
IT’S back to the salt mines for this Hoopster. Juniors competitions in the boys and girls divisions of the 7th Philippine Ching Yuen Athletic Association (PCYAA) basketball competitions among the eight Chinese-Filipino member schools in the Metro Manila area will unwrap on Saturday, January 11, at 12 noon at the Uno High School gym in […]
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 […]
THE Philippines is between 12 and 15 hours ahead of the United States in time and so the Christmas Day games in the National Basketball Association (NBA) are actually being played this morning. The five-game holiday slate features Boston vs. Reigning NBA titlist Toronto (1 a.m. Manila time), 2018-19 NBA regular-season champion Milwaukee at Philadelphia […]
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 […]