April 28, 2024
Sunday
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 […]
FORMER Cleveland Cavaliers uberstar LeBron James now resides in the Western Conference of the NBA after hooking with the Los Angeles Lakers in this year’s NBA free-agent race on a four-year, $153.3-million deal. With this development, the fans in Boston, Toronto and Philadelphia must be rejoicing as one other perennial powerhouse in the Eastern Conference […]
THE Los Angeles Lakers are the biggest winners in the NBA free-agent sweepstakes after securing the services on The King LeBron James on a four-year, $153.3-million deal, including a player option in the final year of the agreement. The deal, which was reached 20 hours into the start of free agency last July 1, is […]
THE Los Angeles Lakers are eyeing their own Big Three for the 2018-19 NBA season that unwraps in mid-October this year. The team wants Cleveland’s LeBron James, San Antonio’s Kawhi Leonard and Oklahoma City’s Paul George via free agency or a trade. James and George are eligible for unrestricted free agency by July 1. As […]
A NOSTALGIC moment it will be in the National Basketball Association today (December 18, U.S. time) when the Los Angeles Lakers honor one of their all-time greats, Kobe Bean Bryant, with the retirement of the two jersey numbers he wore during a distinguished 20-year tenure with the only franchise he had played for. To be […]
FOR all his much-publicized shooting woes, Los Angeles Lakers rookie Lonzo Ball has already set a new National Basketball Association (NBA) record this early into the 2017-18 wars. Last November 11, Ball became the youngest player in NBA annals to collect a triple-double (double figures in any three of the five major statistical categories) when […]
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 […]
LOS ANGELES — Tumira ng jumper si Russell Westbrook may 18.7 segundo na lang ang natitira sa laban para itulak ang Oklahoma City Thunder sa 85-83 panalo kontra Los Angeles Clippers kahapon sa NBA. Lumamang ng apat, 85-81, ang Thunder mula sa jumper na iyon ni Westbrook. Sinagot naman ito ni DeAndre Jordan na umiskor […]
PHOENIX — Kumana si Kevin Durant ng 37 puntos habang si Stephen Curry ay nagdagdag ng 28 puntos para sa Golden State Warriors na nagawang mapigilan ang Phoenix Suns para itakas ang 106-100 panalo sa kanilang NBA game kahapon. Naselyuhan ng Warriors ang panalo matapos na ipasok ni Curry ang dalawang free throws may 12.9 […]