April 30, 2024
Tuesday
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 […]
AT 32, The King still rules even if his Cleveland Cavaliers are going some rough times – perhaps the roughest in his illustrious 15-year pro tenure – in the early goings of the 72nd National Basketball Association campaign. At the very least, LeBron James’ offensive wizardry has not diminished a bit. Going into tomorrow’s playdate […]
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, […]
LET’S play a game. Assuming you are in the front office of a National Basketball Association team, say, its president of basketball operations, or the general manager. And you have to come up with a decision one way or another. Here’s a second-tier player who is still under contract but posts in his Facebook account […]
STILL ahead 3-1 in the National Basketball Association Finals against the reigning league kingpin Cleveland Cavaliers despite the Game 4 debacle, the Golden State Warriors look to capture their second championship in three years when they host Game 5 of their best-of-seven titular showdown today, June 13 (Manila time, 9:00 a.m.), before a friendly crowd […]
“AND now, the end is near and so I face the final curtain” – the defending NBA champ Cleveland Cavaliers. “I did my best, but my best was not good enough” but still “I did it my way” – a duet by the Cavs’ LeBron James and Kyrie Irving. Nobody’s perfect but we are – […]
WITH the Golden State Warriors storming to a 2-0 lead, the reigning NBA titlist Cleveland Cavaliers are in a must-win situation today, June 8 (PH time, 9 a.m.), in Game 3 of the best-of-seven NBA Finals at the Quicken Loans Arena in Wine City. The Warriors thoroughly destroyed the Cavs with 113-91 and 132-113 victories […]
DOWN 0-2 in the National Basketball Association Finals, the reigning league champion Cleveland Cavaliers seek some solace in the comforts of their home when they host Game 3 of the best-of-seven championship series against the 2015 titlist and playoffs-unblemished Golden State Warriors on Thursday, June 8 (Manila time, 9:00 a.m.), at the Quicken Loans Arena. […]
“GAANO man kahaba ang prosesyon sa simbahan rin ang tuloy.” What most prognosticators had declared prior to the start of the 71st renewal of the National Basketball Association in late October has finally come to fruition. Yes, it will be the defending champion Cleveland Cavaliers against the unblemished Golden State Warriors in the NBA Finals […]
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 […]