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All-Star game right smack in the middle of the semifinals. In a city many have never heard of before. Without the much-beloved RSJ-Veterans format. Bad idea right? I certainly thought so. But as we all know now, I was wrong. Oh, so wrong. It was a golden game. And one [...] Read more »
The young lineup of SMART-Gilas Pilipinas continues on their road to maturity and knowledge in Dubai. After starting out the tournament with a W, our boys have dropped two straight games, the last one against Sporting Aramex to the tune of a 75-65 victory for the Jordanians. All is not [...] Read more »
National Team head coach Chot Reyes, once again took to Twitter to inform anticipating Filipinos of the result of their Group Stage matchup in the Dubai International Championships. This time however, the tweet that came after their 2nd game in the tournament was not as jubilant as the first one. [...] Read more »
This year had a lot of international basketball that was definitely worthy of Top Headlines of 2012 status. Games that had players put their team jerseys away and concentrate about the flag that they raise. We had the Summer Olympics, the Jones Cup, and the Stankovic Cup all being played [...] Read more »
Our national team, Smart-Gilas Pilipinas will once again see action next month in tha e Dubai International Tournament. While the rumor mill is churning to the tune of a more Sinag-like team made up of the Gilas Cadet Squad taking the floor for the Philippines, the PBA has pledged to [...] Read more »
Japeth Aguilar has not given up on his attempt to make it into the NBA. After being the last man cut from the NBA D-League team, the Santa Cruz Warriors, he was offered a spot on the practice line-up which he has now put a signature on. Aguilar now hopes [...] Read more »
Since the second version, Gilas has pretty much killed it in the fourth quarter of games. But this time, against a crazy-good foe in the Iranians, there was no Mortal Kombat-type of finish. Led by menacing center, Asghar Kardoust, and the ultra talented Nikkhah Bahrami, Iran unloaded a heck of [...] Read more »
Kevin Alas of the Letran Knights and Larry Fonacier of our National team might have found some long lost brothers. For Kevin, it’s not his own, but rather, what we can only guess to be Calvin Abueva’s utol. For Larry, he had to fly all the way to Japan to [...] Read more »
I remember reciting the Panatang Makabayan and how it woke a fat little grade school kid like me, not from deep slumber, but from daydreaming that I still was. The 7:30am bell still rings fresh in my memory. I remember how it froze the crammers in my class and how it [...] Read more »
ThrowbackThursday time. Though we did not make the London Olympics, there is a lot to look forward to with the Gilas program. Heading deep into the FIBA Asia Cup, we have that big semis matchup against Iran. Before we get all giddy and excited and nervous, Let’s go back in [...] Read more »