June 17, 2026
Wednesday
ACCORDING to National Basketball Association (NBA) commissioner Adam Silver, all league press releases from hereon won’t include the term “owner” to describe ownership of an NBA franchise. This move is being taken to avoid any racial or slavery connotations allegedly arising from usage of the word “owner” as once insinuated by Golden State Warriors forward […]
WITH the withdrawal of Anthony Davis (LA Lakers), back-to-back National Basketball Association (NBA) scoring king James Harden (Houston), C.J. McCollum (Portland), Eric Gordon (Houston), Bradley Beal (Washington), Tobias Harris (Philadelphia), Damian Lillard (Portland) and DeMar DeRozan (San Antonio) from the training pool, the defending champion United States may be vulnerable to an upset in the […]
THE NBA Players Association will soon have its 5th Players Voice Awards night. Maybe the players will vote for fellow American James Harden as their own Most Valuable Player for the 2018-19 season to appease the sour-graping Houston Rockets who claimed that Harden, the league’s back-to-back scoring champion, was robbed of the official NBA award […]
BASKETBALL never stops. Three NBA-sanctioned summer leagues were completed from July 1 to 15. First off the bat was the California Classic Summer League held in Sacramento. The Miami Heat topped the three-day, four-team competitions with a perfect 3-0 record. The LA Lakers, who put up a 15-man roster with no recognizable names, finished second […]
THE demise of NBA basketball in Oklahoma City has begun. In trading a pair of All-Stars in point guard Russell Westbrook and $33-million swingman Paul George to their Western foes Houston Rockets and Los Angeles Clippers, respectively, the Oklahoma City Thunder, who are the first franchise in NBA history to draft eventual league Most Valuable […]
WITH the departure of his co-star Paul George to the Los Angeles Clippers, enigmatic Russell Westbrook, whose stats-padding ways has produced a triple-double average in points, rebounds and assists for an NBA record-setting three straight seasons, welcomes a trade by the Oklahoma City Thunder, his employer for his first 11 seasons in the league. If […]
IT was a detour all right – from one Los Angeles team to another – Lakers to Clippers, co-tenants at the Staples Center, which is a big winner in the Kawhi Anthony Leonard signing drama with expected 82-game sellouts – at the very least – during the 2019-20 NBA season featuring LeBron Raymone James and […]
Where will Kawhi play? EXPECTEDLY, fireworks broke out at the start of the NBA free-agent negotiating period last July 1 (Manila time). After two days of twists and turns, a majority of the 170 free agents — including a handful of top-tier talents with maximum or super-maximum contracts — have been taken in free agency […]
EXPECT a lot of money to be thrown away – good or bad – after the National Basketball Association (NBA) opened its door to free agency on Monday July 1 (6 a.m.), Manila time. When everything is said and done, the money spent during the NBA free-agent sweepstakes could well surpass the $4.1 billion shelled […]
WHEN the NBA free agency period unfolds on July 1 (6 a.m. PH time), as many as 10 teams will own over S20 million in salary cap space. The New York Knicks, who finished with the NBA’s worst regular record during the 2018-19 season at 17-65, own the largest salary cap space among the 30 […]
THE official 3rd annual National Basketball Association (NBA) Awards will be held on June 25 (Manila time) at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California. The ceremony will be hosted by four-time NBA championship star and Hall of Famer Shaquille O’Neal. The Greek Freak, Milwaukee’s Giannis Antetokounmpo, is expected to win the Maurice Podoloff Trophy that […]