May 15, 2024
Wednesday
PLAYING without their top six scorers, including reigning NBA MVP Giannis Antetokuonmpo, who was out with a knee injury for a second straight game, the NBA-leading Milwaukee Bucks (53-12) dropped a 109-95 road decision to the Denver Nuggets and suffered their first three-game losing streak of the season. The Los Angeles Lakers, who beat the […]
IT’S nice to be happy. I caught the game between the crosstown rivals Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers Monday morning (3:30 a.m.) via Facebook live streaming (ahem, for free). It was beamed from a Vietnamese NBA fan with Laker leanings. Never mind that the fella was at times talking aloud during the U.S.-fed […]
TO the uninitiated, Charles Henry (Chuck) Cooper was the first African-American to be drafted by a team in the American professional league National Basketball Association (NBA). The Boston Celtics selected Cooper with the first pick in the second round of the 1950 NBA draft – the 14th pick overall – on April 25, 1950. Before […]
THE blacks – or specifically African-Americans – have become the masters of the game of basketball. Earl Lloyd broke the color barrier in the National Basketball Association (NBA) by becoming the first black man to suit up in the American professional league on Halloween night in 1950. And more historic firsts by African-Americans were later […]
BASKETBALL action heats up as the NBA playoffs go deeper and deeper. I have been following the league over You Tube, watching those 12 minute highlights of past games, something that enables people to spend less time on the boob tube but getting the same results, and I am happy the PBA has also followed […]
SOMETIMES you don’t need to be a talented player to win a title in team sports. That is if you have a star athlete or two for a teammate. You only need to be lucky and be in the right place at the right time. The late basketball journeyman Cris Bolado is one example, snaring […]
THE 2019 National Basketball Association (NBA) playoffs are in progress with not much off-chart series results as every team that started its first-round best-of-seven duels with the homecourt advantage has either maintained or regained “home serve” — an incentive that rewards a team the right to play Game 7, if need be, on its home […]
ARE 29 teams in the forthcoming 2018-19 National Basketball Association season simply playing for second place? In a survey among NBA general managers, 87 percent of those polled said the Golden State Warriors would win their third straight title this season – and fourth in five years – this season and become the first team […]
TODAY, September 25 (PH time), is the first allowable date for veteran NBA players to report to their teams (no earlier than 11 a.m. local time). The following day (Sept. 26) is the start of training camp for all other NBA teams outside of Dallas and Philadelphia, which opened last September 22 as both are […]
MULING pinatunayan ni Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James na isa pa rin siya sa mga pinakamahuhusay na manlalaro ngayon sa NBA. Kahapon ay tumira si James ng 44 puntos para pagbidahan ang 111-102 panalo ng Cavs laban sa bisitang Boston Celtics. Babalik ang best-of-seven series sa kampo ng mga Celtics sa Huwebes na tabla ang […]