Gilas Pilipinas is looking at a few players to boost the national team which has been plagued with injuries since the third window of the FIBA World Cup Asian Qualifiers. Gilas stand-in coach Nenad Vucinic (FIBA photo) The Filipinos played without naturalized big man Ange Kouame in a lopsided loss...
Dwight Ramos showed the way as Gilas Pilipinas vented its ire on the hapless India, 79-63, to wrap up the first stage of the FIBA World Cup Asian Qualifiers on a high note at the Mall of Asia Arena on Sunday, July 3. Photo from FIBA Still licking its wounds from a tough blowout loss against New...
Nenad Vucinic said Gilas’ tough loss against New Zealand may serve as an eye-opener for the youth-laden squad in terms of the level of basketball it needs heading into the 2023 FIBA World Cup. Gilas Pilipinas (FIBA) “Very tough night for this young team. We have come across a Tall Blacks team...
A day after Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. took his oath as the 17th President of the Philippines, peasant group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) presented their demands for the agriculture sector, adding that all of these are “doable” within the first 100 days of the new...
NIGHT OWL Anna Mae Lamentillo It’s a new day for our nation. President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr. has been sworn in as the 17th President of the Republic of the Philippines. We welcome a new government that has given us hope for a renewed country—renewed in the sense that we shall overcome...
Gilas head coach Nenad Vucinic will be needing other players to step up heading into Sunday's game against India as Carl Tamayo suffered a sprained ankle after a 106-60 loss against New Zealand Thursday, June 30. Carl Tamayo (FIBA) Tamayo provided the spark for Gilas after dropping 16 points and...
Gilas Pilipinas absorbed a 46-point beating at the hands of New Zealand, 106-60, in the third window of the 2023 FIBA World Cup Asian Qualifiers on Thursday, June 30, at the EventFinda Stadium in Auckland, New Zealand. Dwight Ramos (FIBA) The Tall Blacks set the pace from the get-go and led by as...
AGRI Party-list Representative Wilbert T. Lee (Photo taken from the LKY Group of Companies Website) A long-time advocate of the agriculture sector, Wilbert T. Lee is the representative of AGRI partylist, also known as AGRI-AGRA Na Reporma Para Sa Magsasaka ng Pilipinas in the 19th Congress. The...
The shorthanded and youth-laden Gilas Pilipinas men’s senior team faces a tall order when it tackles New Zealand on Thursday, June 30, in the third window of the FIBA World Cup Asian Qualifiers at the EventFinda stadium in Auckland. Photo from Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas The Filipinos are...
What was thought to be a swift march to the finish turned into a nightmare as the Gilas Pilipinas girls team succumbed to Samoa, 88-73, in the semifinals of the FIBA U16 Women's Asian Championship at the Prince Hamza Arena in Jordan on Wednesday, June 29. The Gilas Pilipinas U16 girls team was a...
Gilas Pilipinas program director Chot Reyes revealed that NorthPort forward Jamie Malonzo was cleared to play as a local in the national team. Jamie Malonzo (PBA Images) According to Reyes, it turned out that Malonzo was already a Philippine passport holder since he was eight years old and FIBA has...
Intending to help resolve the ongoing the food crisis, peasant group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) announced that they will be laying down dozen “concrete and doable demands” that president-elect Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.’s administration can accomplish within the first 100...
