May 06, 2024
Monday
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 […]
IN an era where one-and-done (only one year in college then onto the pros) is the norm, basically as a result of the current collective bargaining agreement struck by the U.S. professional league National Basketball Association (NBA) and its player union which states that a player must be at least 19 years old and one […]
ILANG araw na lang at matatapos na ang 2018-19 regular season ng National Basketball Association o NBA at susundan na ito ng salpukan ng 16 koponang uusad sa Playoffs. Kumpleto na ang walong koponang papasok sa Western Conference Playoffs subalit puwestuhan na lang ang pag-uusapan lalo na sa sixth hanggang eighth spots. Sa Eastern Conference […]
AS great as Shaquille O’Neal (28,596), Moses Malone (27,409), Elvin Hayes (27,313), Hakeem Olajuwon (26,946) and Oscar Robertson (26,710) had been during their heyday, none of them breached the 30,000-point barrier during their distinguished careers in the National Basketball Association (NBA). In NBA regular-season annals, only seven men have collected at least 30,000 career points. […]
IF it’s any consolation to the Lakers Nation, the top four all-time leading scorers in National Basketball Association (NBA) regular-season history have suited up the colors of the Los Angeles Lakers at one time their distinguished pro career. The Fantastic Four are Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Karl Malone, Kobe Bryant and now LeBron James, who surpassed His […]
DAHIL sa mga pagbabagong ipinatupad ng National Basketball Association (NBA) nitong mga nakalipas na taon na pumapabor sa mga offensive players ay hindi kataka-taka na umiskor ng sangkatutak ang mga koponan sa liga. At sa schedule nga ng NBA sa Miyerkules (Enero 16, PH time) ay tatlong teams ang umiskor ng 140 puntos o higit […]
I GET it. The popular vote goes to his His Airness Michael Jordan as the GOAT in National Basketball Association history. Jordan, after all, earned six title rings with the Chicago Bulls in “three-peat” fashion twice from 1991-93 to 1996-98. And fans may have been awed by the glitz lights of scientific technology during the […]
ONCE a lily-white American pro basketball league, the National Basketball Association (NBA) is now dominated by African-Americans. The NBA, in fact, has the highest percentage of black players in any of the four major professional team sports leagues (baseball, basketball, football and hockey) in the United States and Canada. A survey showed that 74.2 percent […]
SEVENTY-two years ago on November 1, the first National Basketball Association (NBA) game was held. To the uninitiated, the American professional league was still named the Basketball Association of America (BAA) at the time and it fought the rival National Basketball League (NBL) for the services of the best post-graduate players from America. Established in […]
THERE have been a lot of significant developments in the National Basketball Association (NBA) since its inception in 1946 as the Basketball Association of America. Among them were a couple of earth-shaking moves that occurred on October 30 and 31. It was on October 30, 1954 that the NBA instituted a major rules change that […]