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How quickly the blowing and whistling of trade winds turn into an actual typhoon of a deal. It seems like the trade fever that was created by a three-team trade yesterday between Meralco, Barako Bull, and Talk ‘N Text has caught off with four more teams — a virtual 12-player [...] Read more »
The Heat vs. the Spurs in the Finals. Folks, this is basketball porn! You have the Spurs, the most collectively intuitive team I have seen in basketball since the Alaska Milkmen of the PBA in the 90′s. They operate like a machine, with the intertwined natural basketball instincts of its guards [...] Read more »
You might know of the Asean Basketball League as The Asi Taulava and Eric Menk Retirement Home. Really, the ABL isn’t popular with Pinoys because it has created an impression among us as the place where PBA rejects and outcasts go after they get cut by a PBA team. It [...] Read more »
SLAM PH’s PBA Power Rankings have been dusted off and excavated from our treasure chest! But instead of ranking on-court misery or brilliance, I’m going to count down the best and the worst jerseys in the League. The rankings were determined by my exquisite sense of basketball fashion (if ever [...] Read more »
There’s probably a 95% chance that you lambasted Indiana Pacers Head Coach Frank Vogel for his decision to leave his best RIM PROTECTUHHH, Roy Hibbert, out of arguably the franchise’s biggest defensive possession since they let Larry Johnson hit that 4-point play back in the ’99 ECF. On the surface, [...] Read more »
Various reports from different media outlets have cited different sources that the chances of Calvin Abueva joining the Gilas program are beginning to pick up. InterAKTV first cited that according to a high-ranking staff of the national team, The Beast has been on their radar ever since the start of [...] Read more »
InterAKTV WHAT THIS GAME MEANS: For Barangay Ginebra San Miguel, it’s as simple as DO! or DIE! They’ve been dominated by a team that clearly is better than them and they haven’t shown any inkling of being able to find counters against Alaska’s D. Macklin and Caguioa have looked like [...] Read more »
WHAT THIS GAME MEANS If Alaska wins Game 2, BGSM is on the ropes. If Ginebra wins, then golly, it’s a series! Remember how Manny Pacquiao staggered Juan Manuel Marquez in the first round of their first fight? That’s practically what Alaska did to the Barangay, and Ginebra wasn’t able [...] Read more »
Ito na ‘to. This is it. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the PBA Finals! It’s Alaska vs. Ginebra: The Best Team Since Game Zero vs. The Team That Fate Kissed. I’m already salivating just by mentioning “Alaska vs. Ginebra”. That sounds as sexy as “Mudwrestling: Trish Stratus vs. Stacy Keibler”, [...] Read more »
What happens when you cut the Commissioner’s Cup Semis into two parts, when you deprive Ginebra, San Mig Coffee, Alaska, and Talk ‘N Text fans an abundant source of joy and elation? You get 23,108. 23,108 rabid fans were crammed like sardines in the SMART-Araneta Coliseum despite the rain and [...] Read more »