July 07, 2026
Tuesday
AMONG the four remaining teams still available to contend for the Larry O’Brien championship hardware in the 2014 National Basketball Association playoffs are those with the three best win-loss records during the regular campaign. And the fourth squad to reach the postseason’s Final Four (conference finals)? Surprisingly, it’s the two-time defending NBA titlist Miami Heat, […]
SECURING a ticket to the NBA Finals for two consecutive years is just as hard as winning the Larry O’Brien championship trophy two years in a row. Since the NBA opened shop in 1946-47 (the first three years under the Basketball Association of America banner), there have been only 22 instances where the losing finalist […]
ONLY one Filipino has so far been enshrined in the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) Hall of Fame. The late Dionisio (Chito) Calvo was among the first batch of 43 personages to be inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame in March 2007. Calvo was one of 24 posthumous inductees under the “contributors” category. Three men […]
THERE are number of Basketball Hall of Fame sites here and abroad but not many know that there exists one for international basketball. It’s called the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) Hall of Fame. Culled from its French name “Fédération Internationale de Basketball,” the FIBA is an association of national organizations which governs international competitions in […]
TRUST me. Basketball is the Filipinos’ national pastime. Even at the barangay level, avid hoops fans would merrily come to witness the games held on a makeshift court or in a playground. With an atmosphere that is best described as festive, every Tom, Dick and Harry in sight would share stories of the acrobatic acts […]
IT’S said that 25 percent of basketball athletes around the world are left-handed. In the National Basketball Association, some of the prominent southpaws from the past include William Felton (Bill) Russell, David (The Admiral) Robinson, David (Dave) Cowens, Willis Reed Jr., Robert Jerry (Bob) Lanier, William (Billy) Cunningham, Nathaniel (Nate) Archibald, Gail Charles Goodrich Jr., […]
HERE are more prominent left-handed personalities that made it big in the sports scene. In local basketball history, there have been a handful of lefty cagers from the past and present that became household names and even earned a slot on the Philippine national team. Any Filipino hoops fan worth his salt would easily remember […]
LEFT-HANDED people are a special breed. While they concededly are in the minority, some of them went on to become distinguished men and women in different fields of endeavour. There have been seven southpaw United States presidents in the past, including the late actor-politician Ronald Reagan, George Herbert Walker Bush (the father of current president […]
RALLYING behind their head coach who like all other devout Christians that believe in miracles, the University of Connecticut Huskies defied long, long odds to snare this year’s U.S. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I men’s basketball championship. The Huskies, whom the Las Vegas oddsmakers before the tournament had picked a lowly 100-1 to […]
IN the most improbable finals matchup ever, it will be the Midwest Region eighth-seeded Kentucky Wildcats versus the East Region seventh-seeded Connecticut Huskies for this year’s U.S. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I championship. The titular duel will be played today, April 8 (Manila time), at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. During the […]
LEGENDARY greats William Felton (Bill) Russell and Earvin (Magic) Johnson Jr. were inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame while marginal players Charles Henry Bibby and William Stansbury (Billy) Thompson never made it big in the professional ranks. However, the quarter has something in common: They are the only athletes in American basketball […]