Calvin Oftana stepped up big time as TNT survived a huge Ginebra fightback to eke out a 101-94 victory in Game 2 of the PBA Season 50 Commissioner’s Cup Finals at the Smart Araneta Coliseum on Friday, June 5. After missing what was supposedly a game-tying alley-oop in Game 1, Oftana exploded for...
Calvin Oftana wasn’t crying over spilled milk and quickly moved on after a non-call on his supposed overtime sending shot in the final 0.6 seconds of the TNT’s 100-106 loss to Barangay Ginebra in Game 1 of the PBA Season 50 Finals series. The Tropang 5G forward caught the ball in mid-air for an...
Ginebra may have drawn first blood in the Finals series but head coach Tim Cone is not being complacent against TNT come Game 2 of the best-of-seven series at the Smart Araneta Coliseum on Friday, June 5. Tip-off of the clash is at 7:30 p.m. with the Kings aiming to correct their mistakes that...
There was no sense of any celebration from RJ Abarrientos after nailing not just one – but two clutch four-pointers late in Barangay Ginebra’s 102-100 win over TNT in Game 1 of the PBA Season 50 Commissioner’s Cup finals. Instead, the presumptive Best Player of the Conference palmed his face...
Barangay Ginebra star RJ Abarrientos shrugged off Best Player of the Conference talks, stressing that the focus for him right now is to help Ginebra end its Finals jinx against TNT and win his very first PBA title. Abarrientos was among the leaders in the BPC race alongside Robert Bolick and June...
TNT and Barangay Ginebra raises the curtain to what is primed to be another epic collision between two of the most dominant teams in the PBA through the last two seasons as they begin the best-of-seven Season 50 Commissioner’s Cup Finals at the Smart Araneta Coliseum on Wednesday, June 3. Tip-off...
TNT had its number against Barangay Ginebra in their last three Finals meetings and both Scottie Thompson and Justin Brownlee are hoping to finally arrest that skid against the Tropang 5G this time around. The Kings are actually seeking their first title since claiming the Commissioner’s Cup...
TNT has the rare shot at history in the upcoming PBA Season 50 Commissioner’s Cup Finals as it can become the very first No. 8 team to win a title. The Tropang 5G had to go through a wringer after a roller-coaster elimination that saw them finish at the eighth spot with an even 6-6 record. TNT...
A lot had happened in the highly entertaining PBA Season 50 Commissioner’s Cup, yet it all ended up in the same Finals matchup it had in its last edition. Exactly 448 days since the last season’s Commissioner’s Cup Finals press conference, TNT and Barangay Ginebra found themselves sharing the...
Rondae Hollis-Jefferson and Jayson Castro both let out a loud roar as the final buzzer in Game 6 went off. Those were barely audible inside the Smart Araneta Coliseum as it faded in the cheers of the huge crowd as well as the wild celebration of their teammates. But their impact in the game, when...
Chris Ross may have carved out a successful career in the PBA, winning 10 championships with the San Miguel, but none of those would actually happen if not for Meralco giving him the chance to prove his worth. And that’s something not lost on the two-time Finals MVP as he faces up against the...
From just doing the paper works and dealing with negotiations and player contracts when he joined TNT as a team manager in the Commissioner’s Cup to actually calling the shots for the team that would go all the way the Finals and win the franchise’s very first Governors’ Cup title, Tropang...
