June 20, 2026
Saturday
THREE teams played the spoiler’s role during the National Basketball Association’s five-game bill on Christmas Day. “Kill joys” were the Philadelphia 76ers, Washington Wizards and Minnesota Timberwolves as they spoiled their respective opponents’ festivities with victories on the road. Overcoming a sore back, 7-foot Cameroon native Joel Embiid had a successful Christmas Day debut with […]
AS in the previous years, there are five games to be played on Christmas Day (today, Manila time) in the National Basketball Association. The high-profile five-game bill features (in chronological order) Philadelphia at New York, Cleveland at Golden State, Washington at Boston, Houston at Oklahoma City, and Minnesota at the Los Angeles Lakers. In hosting […]
THE first leg of the 5th Philippine Ching Yuen Athletic Association (PCYAA) basketball competitions concluded last Sunday with the best-of-three finals in both the 12U Developmental Division and 14U Aspirants Division going to the full distance. Both top-seeded winners registered 2-1 decisions after dropping their respective series openers against their second-seed opponents. League newcomer Saint […]
SEASON 11 of the Quezon City Athletic Association (QCAA) basketball competitions concluded Sunday with four schools grabbing the championship hardware at stake in the four different divisions. In the 12-under Boys Division, unbeaten Santo Nino of Novaliches walloped Saint Patrick School, 46-29, in a titular game it held the upperhand throughout after giving up the […]
WHERE have all the scouts gone? Here is an athletic 12-year-old basketball-playing kiddie who has taken a league by storm even as not many hoop personalities outside the Chinese-Filipino community have taken notice despite him producing a streak of six consecutive triple-doubles during one stretch, including an unprecedented quadruple-double. A 5-foot-8 frontliner, Josh Charles Ong […]
THERE is not much loyalty in the National Basketball Association. That is if we are to believe a pair of battle-scarred superstars in the world’s top professional league. Kevin Durant of the reigning NBA titlist Golden State Warriors opted to leave his original employer for a championship team while German-born Dirk Nowitzki opted to take […]
JUST like love and marriage, loyalty is a two-way street. But that is not happening in the National Basketball Association, where players have been at the mercy of their team ‘owners’ despite free agency and all. Okay, I place the word ‘owner’ in italics because its use is despicable, according to outspoken Golden Warrior Draymond […]
THIS is one of the most memorable moments in local pro basketball history that is worth telling and retelling. Hoop fans from Generation X may not even have known this historic event unless their dad or grandpa had told them about it many moons ago. It was 26 years ago on November 21 that Allan […]
FOR all his much-publicized shooting woes, Los Angeles Lakers rookie Lonzo Ball has already set a new National Basketball Association (NBA) record this early into the 2017-18 wars. Last November 11, Ball became the youngest player in NBA annals to collect a triple-double (double figures in any three of the five major statistical categories) when […]
IT will be a long nine-day sabbatical for the students in the Metro Manila area starting Saturday, November 11, due to the country’s hosting of the Association of Southeast Nations (ASEAN) Summit. Even as classes (November 11-19, including twin Saturdays and Sundays) are suspended during the period, a drawn-out basketball-related work it will be for […]
AT 32, The King still rules even if his Cleveland Cavaliers are going some rough times – perhaps the roughest in his illustrious 15-year pro tenure – in the early goings of the 72nd National Basketball Association campaign. At the very least, LeBron James’ offensive wizardry has not diminished a bit. Going into tomorrow’s playdate […]