Team Pilipinas Blasts Sri Lanka in FIBA-Asia Opener
Team Pilipinas blasts Sri Lanka with a monstrous score of 115-31 in the opening game of 25th FIBA-Asian men’s basketball championship Thursday in Tianjin, China. They played a terrific game that a win today in able them to have an automatic semi-finals slot in the on-going FIBA-Asia tournament. But first, they must play really hard to win their remaining games for them to qualify in the 2012 London Olympics.
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Japeth Aguilar is RP’s New Basketball Player Sensation
Japeth Paul C. Aguilar is a Filipino amateur basketball player which was born on January 25, 1985. He is currently playing for the Western Kentucky University Hilltoppers in the division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association in the United States. He is the first Filipino-born basketball player ever to be recruited by a Division I program. Japeth is a son of former Philippine Basketball Association player named Peter Aguilar.
In college, before he went to the United States, he played for the Ateneo de Manila University Blue Eagles in the University Athletic Association of the Philippines in 2004. However, his first season stint was cut short due to appendicitis.
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NBA Lakers Superstar Kobe Bryant Visits Manila
NBA Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant is here again in the Philippines, which is a part of his six-city Asian tour for Nike that would bring him to Singapore, Taipei, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Chengdu afterwards. This would be his third visit since the NBA 2009 MVP last came here in Manila.
Fresh from winning NBA championship against Orlando Magic, Bryant and reigning pound-for-pound king Pacquiao recently met during a commercial shoot for Nike in Los Angeles.
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Powerade Team Pilipinas Had Their First Loss against Jordan in Jones Cup Debut
The Powerade Team Pilipinas out-hassled by Jordan in the midst of second-quarter breakaway and never recovered in a disappointing 90-59 loss to open its campaign in the 31st William Jones Cup.
The Nationals started strong in the few minutes of first quarter and only trailed by two points 17-15 at the end of this quarter. It has been a very close game until Jordanian’s 6-4 point guard Rasheim Wright started to play a tremendous game in both offense and defense by cutting the Nationals’ defense in shreds, setting screens that set up their outside shots clearly breaking Team Pilipinas’ man-to-man defense.
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SMB ties final series at 2-2 against Ginebra
Metro Manila – San Miguel Beer celebrated their victory against Ginebra on a thrilling game tonight with a score of 106-104 win in Araneta Coliseum. The King’s import David Noel missed crucial 3 endgame free throws that would eventually the turning point on this game. However, Ginebra’s guard Ronald Tubid and Chico Lanete had an opportunity to shoot a game-winning three-pointer each but failed to deliver the paint. It was a heart-breaking loss against them that would tie the series at 2-2.
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The Beermen Wins Against Air21 to Face Kings in best-of-3 series
San Miguel Beer subordinated the Air21 Express practically on all fronts, pulling off a comfortable 105-86 victory to gain entry into the KFC PBA Philippine Cup quarterfinals at the Araneta Coliseum Sunday night.
Picking up from where they left off in their game against the Coca-Cola Tigers last Dec. 28, the Beermen made it 3-0 over the Express in their head-on duels in the conference.
It’s Sta. Lucia versus Rain or Shine in the opener and San Miguel against Ginebra for the main game at the start of the best-of-three quarterfinals showdowns Wednesday in the same venue.
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La Salle-Ateneo encounters again for Collegiate Championship crown
The top two squads in the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) could very well be the best teams in the country right now.
La Salle followed rival Ateneo in the 2008 Philippine Collegiate Championship finals after whooping a 62-61 comeback win over reigning National Collegiate Athletic Association champion San Beda in their semifinal match on Saturday at the arena in San Juan City.
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Salvacion Saves Ginebra against Coca-Cola
Ginebra’s guard Sunday Salvacion lit up the scoreboard in the fourth quarter to help his team beat Coca-Cola, 84-77, in Thursday’s game in the KFC PBA Philippine Cup at the Olivarez College Sports Center.
Salvacion’s outside sniping, four straight for 12 points, in the final canto helped keep the Tigers at bay and secure the Kings’ third straight win.
Coke rallied from 21 points down in the first half and threatened at 56-55, on a Ronjay Enrile three-pointer with 10:35 left in the game clock.
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Philippine Basketball Association (PBA)
The Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) is a professional basketball league in the Philippines which founded in 1975. It is known as the first and the oldest professional basketball league in Asia. PBA is currently applying the rules of FIBA and National Basketball Association. The league is recently headed by Commissioner Sonny Barrios.
From 1975-2003, a season was usually composed of three conferences. From the 1993 season, the conferences were named All Filipino, Commissioner’s Cup, and Governors Cup, usually ending in a best-of-7 Finals series match wherein the winner takes the Conference Cup. If the same team wins all of the conferences, the team is said to be the “Grand Slam” champion. A draft was held on January.
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SMB’s Mick Pennisi Shows his Best Performance against the Tigers
Mick Pennisi had his best performance night wearing a San Miguel Beer uniform and the Beermen repelled a late uprising by the Coca-Cola Tigers to win, 89-86 for their seventh victory in nine games in the KFC PBA Philippine Cup at the Cuneta Astrodome.
SMB’s center scored a season high 18 points which nine of them scored in the fourth quarter and shot 5-of-8 from three-point land while Jay Washington had seven in the payoff period as San Miguel tied Alaska for the lead going into the preliminaries’ final nine games.
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Philippine Peso Exchange Rate
