Highlighting the role of basketball as the Filipinos’ favorite and most popular sport, the House Committee on Youth and Sports Development on Tuesday, March 14, approved, subject to style and amendments, a bill seeking to declare April of every year as National Basketball Month. House Bill (HB)...
Team manager Butch Antonio believes Gilas Pilipinas will be carrying a bigger target as compared in the past in its task to extend the country’s dominance in the men’s basketball competitions of the Southeast Asian Games. MB File Photo Gilas is favored to win a 14th consecutive gold and 19th...
Gilas Pilipinas women's team during practice session at the Summit Point Golf & Country Club in Lipa, Batangas. (SBP Images) The Gilas Pilipinas women’s team is now on the final stage of preparation in a training bubble in Batangas in time for the FIBA Women’s Asia Cup 2021 scheduled Sept....
Filipino basketball prodigy Kai Sotto (Photo from FIBA) Kai Sotto won’t be joining Gilas Pilipinas in the third window of the FIBA Asia Cup Qualifiers which will now be held in Clark, Pampanga. Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas director for operations Butch Antonio confirmed plans to have Sotto fly...
Collegiate stars Jack Animam of National University, Ateneo's Thirdy Ravena and Kenneth Tuffin of Far Eastern University. (UAAP Images) The Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas hailed the decision of Thirdy Ravena, Kenneth Tuffin and Jack Animam to take their talents overseas, adding it will only...
Tab Baldwin stays with Gilas Pilipinas The Samahang Basketbol sa Pilipinas (SBP) has reprimanded amateur players like Thirdy Ravena, left, after breaching the General Community Quarantine guidelines on playing five-on-five basketball. (Photo from TrueFocus Basketball @truefocus_ph / Instagram) The...
SBP executive director Sonny Barrios and director for operations Butch Antonio (PSA Images) The Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas tackles its plan of action moving forward in this time of the COVID-19 pandemic as it serves as special guest of the Philippine Sportswriters Association (PSA) Forum...
