The 8th annual SEABA championships will be played this coming weekend (June 6-10, 200) in Medan, Indonesia. SEABA, the SouthEast Asian Basketball Association,  is a sub-region of FIBA Asia that includes these ten Southeast Asian countries; Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar (Burma), The Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Four of these ten national teams will compete [...]

May 29, Araneta Coliseum – It could have been one of the greatest knockout games in recent PBA history. The Purefoods Tender Juicy Giants survived their match against Talk-N -Text Tropang Texters 126-123 which needed two overtime periods to determine the winner (Discuss the game). Purefoods who played with guts and heart all throughout the [...]

Iranian club Mahram defeated Zain 78-68 in the 20th FIBA Asia Cup Championship (Discuss). With two dominant scorers in Jackson Vroman and Samad Nikkah Bahrami, Mahram overwhelmed their Jordanian opponents beginning in the second quarter. Vroman led Mahram with 19 points and 10 rebounds and was named MVP. “I’m happier for the win than the [...]

Jakarta, Indonesia – After defeating Al-Riyadhi of Lebanon, Iranian club Mahram will face Zain, a club from Jordan, in the Finals for the 2009 FIBA Asia Champions Cup. (Discuss the 2009 Asian Cup tournament) If Mahram is successful, Iran will have won three consecutive Asia Cup Championships;  Iran’s Saba Battery had won the two previous [...]

The San Beda Red Lions basketball team has boasted of one of the most successful basketball programs in the recent history. The Lions are given all the financial support it needs, thanks to a very strong alumnae boosters program, and a very generous patron with extra deep wallets in Manny V. Pangilinan, more commonly known [...]

It’s been a while since we did a rundown of the happenings in international basketball, so, here goes our periodic international Run-On Sentence: Roko-Leni Ukic joins the Toronto Raptors Croatian star guard Roko Leni-Ukic has been busy this last week, not only is he trying to help his national team qualify for the Olympics, but [...]

The 2008 Fil-Oil Tournament Finals were held Saturday, June 14, 2008, at an arena in San Juan between the San Beda College (SBC) Red Lions and the University of the East (UE) Red Warriors. It turned out to be a great game, as expected, and below were my observations and opinions about the game. Game [...]