June 19, 2026
Friday
EVERY hoops fan worth his salt knows what a triple-double is. Yet the origin of the term “triple-double” remains unclear. According to some sources, it was coined by former Los Angeles Lakers public relations director Bruce Jolesch during the 1980s in order to showcase the multi-dimensional skills of Lakers playmaker Earvin (Magic) Johnson, whose triple-double […]
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 […]
EARL Lloyd broke the color barrier in the National Basketball Association (NBA) by becoming the first black man to play in the league on Halloween night in 1950. And there are more historic firsts for African-Americans in the world’s ultimate cage forum. All-time great and Hall of Famer Bill Russell, the winningest player in NBA […]
ONCE a lily-white American pro basketball league, the National Basketball Association (NBA) is now dominated by African-Americans. The NBA, in fact, has the highest percentage of black players in any of the four major professional team sports leagues (baseball, basketball, football and hockey) in the United States and Canada. A survey showed that 74.2 percent […]
WHY did the professional National Basketball Association (NBA) peg its shot clock at twenty-four seconds starting in the 1954-55 season? The NBA could have simply followed the 30-second shot clock rule utilized by the basketball world-governing body International Basketball Federation at the time. (The FIBA was established in 1932.) Or the NBA could have just […]
SEVENTY-two years ago on November 1, the first National Basketball Association (NBA) game was held. To the uninitiated, the American professional league was still named the Basketball Association of America (BAA) at the time and it fought the rival National Basketball League (NBL) for the services of the best post-graduate players from America. Established in […]
THERE have been a lot of significant developments in the National Basketball Association (NBA) since its inception in 1946 as the Basketball Association of America. Among them were a couple of earth-shaking moves that occurred on October 30 and 31. It was on October 30, 1954 that the NBA instituted a major rules change that […]
SEVENTY-THREE years and counting. The 73rd renewal of the National Basketball Association will unwrap on October 16 (October 17, PH time) with two games on tap. In the first of a doubleheader, the Philadelphia 76ers, bannered by All-NBA candidate Joel Embiid and last season’s Rookie of the Year awardee Ben Simmons, travel to Boston’s TD […]
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 […]
MENTAL health is a hot topic in the National Basketball Association (NBA) nowadays, much so after Kevin Love (Cleveland Cavaliers) and DeMar DeRozan (San Antonio Spurs) publicly admitted that they have suffered panic attacks, anxiety and/or depression during the games and were seeking treatment. According to Houston Rockets assistant coach John Lucas, who was banned […]
TODAY, September 25 (PH time), is the first allowable date for veteran NBA players to report to their teams (no earlier than 11 a.m. local time). The following day (Sept. 26) is the start of training camp for all other NBA teams outside of Dallas and Philadelphia, which opened last September 22 as both are […]