May 10, 2024
Friday
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 […]
ALTHOUGH it’s still six days before Christmas, please allow me to greet one and all a Merry Christmas this early! As I was listening to a CD full of Christmas music while doing this column, the lyrics of one such song caught my attention that I am sharing with you readers. The song entitled “You’re […]
BEFORE Lim Eng Beng there was elongated big man Kurt Bachmann who was the dominant player for De La Salle in the mid-fifties when he powered the Green to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) men’s basketball title in 1956. Legend has it that the 1960 Rome Olympian’s favorite offensive weapon, the hook shot, was […]
TALKING of sports, I had three “loves” as a youngster during the 1960s – basketball, soccer and boxing. During my heyday, I did play basketball and soccer although I never tried boxing. No, I was not afraid of the blood-letting associated with boxing. I was then skinny-framed and my late mom did not want me […]
The LA Lakers own the toughest and most brutal schedule in the NBA in the month of December – nine games on the road and only five at home (Staples Center). They started on the wrong foot, losing to Luka Doncic and the Dallas Mavericks, 114-110, at the Staples Center – last Dec. 1 to […]
HAIL to the new princes of local basketball. Jubilee Christian Academy made it a double celebration over the weekend as it defeated Philippine Cultural College, 53-36, in the deciding Game 3 of the Aspirants Division (14-under) best-of-three finals in the 7th Philippine Ching Yuen Athletic Association (PCYAA) basketball competitions to claim the crown for the […]
UPSET-conscious Philippine Cultural College (PCC) looks to capture its second Aspirants (14-under) title in league history and Jubilee Christian Academy (JCA) seeks to lock up its first-ever Developmental (12-under) crown in its second finals stint as Game 2s of the best-of-three finals in both divisions of the 7th Philippine Ching Yuen Athletic Association (PCYAA) basketball […]
THIS Hoopster has been chronicling youth basketball in the Chinese-Filipino community for nearly two decades now and nothing beats covering the games in the multi-sport Philippine Ching Yuen Athletic Association (PCYAA) league that is in its seventh year of operations. I have been attending the PCYAA games in the Developmental (12-U) and Aspirants (14-U) divisions […]
HEIGHT is might in basketball, a game best served to tall men and women. Since Canadian physical education instructor Dr. James Naismith invented the game in mid-December 1891 in Springfield, Massachusetts to keep youthful students in excellent physical shape during the cold months (winter) in the United States, international basketball has been dominated by athletes […]
STEPHEN Curry reportedly is unlikely to return to the Golden State Warriors this season following surgery for a fractured bone in his left hand in a game last November 1. The Warriors may be disputing the Bleacher Report but they could really shut him down for the season if there are no “competitive reasons” for […]