The Jordanian National team – known popularly as Al Nashama – showed enough character, courage, conviction and most importantly capabilities to live true to its nickname and carved out a 75-61 win against Philippines that put the WABA team in its first ever FIBA Asia Championship final. Discuss the Asian Championships in our forum. “This [...]

The 2011 William Jones Cup tournament is a basketball tournament held in Asia every year. Discuss the 2011 William Jones Cup in our forum. This year’s cup is being hosted in Taiwan from August 06-14th.  This is the 33rd annual tournament and is taking place at Hsinchuang Stadium in New Taipei City, Taiwan. Teams participating [...]

Mahram Tehran opened their title defense with a strong 86-59 win over Al Jala’a (Syria), while hosts Smart Gilas (Philippines) easily defeated Al Ittihad (Saudi Araban) 101-69 on the opening day of the tournament. (Follow the Asia Champions Cup in our forum) The competition is being held in Manila, Philippines. Asia Champions Cup champions Mahram, [...]

BANGKOK (Asean Basketball League Season 2) – Chang Thailand Slammers booked their place in the ABL Season 2 Finals beating the Singapore Slingers 73-62 at home on Sunday in the third and decisive game of their best-of-three semi-finals series. Discuss the 2nd season of the ASEAN Basketball League in our forum. The Slammers had won [...]

Kobe Bryant and Donyell Marshall hold the NBA record for more three-pointers hit in one NBA game. Both Bryant and Marshall recorded 12 three pointers in a single NBA game. Bryant accomplished the feat when the Lakers played Seattle on January 7, 2003. Marshall did it even more recently, when his Toronto Raptors took on [...]

It is rare to find 6’9″ and above players in the Philippines. In the last decade, probably only a handful have come up and ended up as basketball players in college. Rarer still, is a Filipino 6’9″ player who can actually play basketball well. Hence imagine the impact that fired up the imagination of most [...]

First of all, we need to be reminded on why the Smart Gilas program was established in the first place. Essentially, the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) was starting to get tired of lending its players to the National Team, and not getting consistent, good results (i.e., medal standing finishes). The Samahang Basketbolista ng Pilipinas or [...]