June 29, 2026
Monday
“YOU don’t have to be beautiful to turn me on,” says crooner Tom Jones. I say, “Sometimes you don’t need to be a great player to win a championship in team sports.” You don’t have to be very talented as long as you have a star athlete or two for a teammate. You only need to […]
IT takes 16 victories to capture the Larry O’Brien trophy that goes to the National Basketball Association (NBA) titlist. For the 2008 Boston Celtics, however, it did not matter how many games were needed to be played so long as the travelogue led to an NBA championship. And indeed, the Celtics, who were bannered by […]
MORE than a century ago, the game of basketball was invented as a winter sport in the United States. But don’t tell that to the organizers of the National Basketball Association, the ultimate professional basketball circuit in the world that plays a four-season tournament annually from fall to summer. It takes five months and three […]
THE defending NBA champion Golden State Warriors routed the Oklahoma City Thunder, 118-91, to even their Western Conference final series at 1-1. Back-to-back league MVP Stephen Curry topscored for the Warriors with 28 points, including 15 consecutive during one stretch in the third quarter, and Splash Brothers mate Klay Thompson added 15 points. OKC was […]
IT may still be a couple of weeks away before the matter is settled but this early, it looks like the reigning NBA titlist Golden State Warriors and playoffs unbeaten Cleveland Cavaliers are headed to a finals rematch this year. In the ongoing Final Four playoffs – or best-of-seven conference finals – the Warriors are […]
ON Monday, May 9, we Filipinos will be trooping to the various polling places to vote for a new set of political leaders at the local and national levels. The list of the elective positions at stake is rather long – a president, a vice president, a dozen senators (with a six-year term in the […]
THE defending NBA titlist Golden State Warriors are up, 3-1, in their best-of-seven Western Conference first-round matchup against the faction-infested Houston Rockets following their 121-94 Game Four victory at the Toyota Center built around an all-time NBA single-game record of 21 three-pointers. But the win came at great cost as the Dubs’ star guard and […]
SINCE it debuted in 1946-47 under the Basketball Association of America, the National Basketball Association (which became as such in 1949-50) has yet to witness perfection in the playoffs where one team breezes through one postseason without a single loss. Chances are it will never ever happen. To register a perfect record in the playoffs, […]
SURELY, it was a mind-boggling for them to register the best-ever record in National Basketball Association (NBA) regular-season history at 73-9, eclipsing the old mark of 72-10 set by the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls team that went on to capture the first of their second set of “three-peat” league championships. And it also was stunning for […]
TODAY marks the final day of the National Basketball Association’s 1,230-game regular season. There are 14 games on the schedule but only one of the 16 playoff tickets — eight from the Eastern Conference and eight from the Western Conference — is still available for the taking. Some playoff seedings or rankings, though, remain undetermined. […]
RECORDS are meant to be broken and streaks are meant to be halted if not extended. Yet the bottom-line goal for most athletes is to win the championship or secure a podium finish. This is the mindset of Golden State head coach Steve Kerr as his defending National Basketball Association titlist Warriors approach the “dog […]