April 29, 2024
Monday
THE King (LeBron James) still rules. At age 33. The Cleveland Cavaliers have reached the third round of the four-tier National Basketball Association playoffs for the fourth year in a row and will face the winner of the other East semifinal series between the Boston Celtics and Philadelphia 76ers in the conference finals. The Celtics […]
IT’S over. Oh-and-3. RIP, Toronto Raptors and Philadelphia 76ers. Of the 129 teams in National Basketball Association playoff history to fall behind 3-0 in a best-of-seven series, none has ever come back to win. The Cleveland Cavaliers and Boston Celtics, both toting a commanding 3-0 lead over the East top-seeded Raptors and third-seeded 76ers, respectively, […]
TAKE note, The Beard James Harden and the Houston Rockets.The road to the National Basketball Association (NBA) championship will still have to pass through the Bay Area.The reigning NBA titlist Golden State Warriors zoomed to a 2-0 lead against the New Orleans Pelicans in their best-of-seven West semifinal (second round) duel with twin victories at […]
I WAS of the belief there won’t be any series sweep in the National Basketball Association’s best-of-seven, first-round playoffs. Neither would there be any off-chart series results. The New Orleans Pelicans have proved me wrong on both counts. The sixth-seeded Pelicans upset the third-seeded Portland Trail Blazers and whitewashed them in four straight games in […]
THE 72nd edition of the National Basketball Association will unwrap on October 17 (October 18, Manila time). It is the earliest start in 37 years. Two games are on tap on opening day. Best friends LeBron James and Dwyane Wade and the reigning Eastern Conference titlist Cleveland Cavaliers will host ex-Utah All-Star frontliner Gordon Hayward, […]
AFTER acquiring four days earlier the No. 1 overall selection in this year’s National Basketball Association draft from the Boston Celtics in exchange for their own No. 3 pick and another future first-rounder (2018 or 2019), the Philadelphia 76ers expectedly corralled University of Washington’s much-coveted freshman Markelle Fultz with the first pick during the annual […]
IT has never happened before in NBA draft history but there could yet be a first in this year’s point guard-stacked grab-bag at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York on June 22 (June 23, 7 a.m., PH time). History will be made if the teams that own the first three overall selections in a […]
NO one team in National Basketball Association playoff history has reached the championship round with an unblemished record of 12 consecutive victories, let alone both qualifiers to the Finals. The Golden State Warriors, the 2015 NBA titlists, have an opportunity to enter the Finals at 12-0 if they defeat the injury-riddled San Antonio Spurs today, […]
THE reigning National Basketball Association champion Cleveland Cavaliers and the 2015 titlist Golden State Warriors, the two teams that clashed in the Finals in each of the last two years, remain unblemished in the current playoffs. Cleveland owns a five-game winning streak (eight consecutive postseason victories overall since whipping Golden State in seven dramatic games […]
SOMETIMES you don’t need to be an outstanding player to win a championship in team sports. You don’t have to be very talented so long as 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. Vagabond frontliner Cris […]
TODAY (Manila time) marks the final playdate of the National Basketball Association’s 1,230-game regular season. It’s one exciting finale for various seeding positions entering the real season that is the 2017 playoffs have yet to be determined. A total of 14 games are scheduled to be played on the last day of the regular wars […]