TNT had the burden of adjustment after dropping Game 1. Now it’s on Ginebra 's court. The thrill and the drama are expected to go higher as the Kings and the Tropang 5G dispute a 2-1 lead in Game 3 of their best-of-seven PBA Season 50 commissioner’s Cup Finals series at the Mall of Asia...
Barangay Ginebra head coach Tim Cone didn’t mince words and blasted the officiating in their 101-94 loss in Game 2, believing that the Kings did not get the right calls all-game long. “We didn’t get a break from the referees. I thought it was a terrible crew tonight,” said Cone, who in...
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...
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Karl-Anthony Towns ' first two baskets of the NBA Finals were like countless others in his career. The New York forward got the ball 30 feet from the basket, surveyed the scene, drove right past his defender and scored at the rim. These buckets, however, were not ordinary....
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...
BACOLOD – With coveted tickets to the Elite Junior PGT Finals on the line, Ana Marie Aguilar and Stephen Clementer braved grueling, windless conditions to spearhead a gripping charge in the ICTSI Bacolod JPGT Championship here on Thursday, June 4. Under a heavy, overcast sky that offered no...
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...
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The New York Knicks ' winning streak lives on, and they struck first in the NBA Finals. Jalen Brunson scored 30 points, Karl-Anthony Towns finished with 18 points and 12 rebounds, and the Knicks erased a 14-point second-half deficit to beat the San Antonio Spurs, 105-95,...
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...
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The NBA 's hopes of starting a new independent league in Europe by the end of 2027 are on schedule, Commissioner Adam Silver said before the start of the NBA Finals on Wednesday night, June 3. That plan — a joint effort involving the NBA and FIBA, the sport 's...
Excitement grows louder as the San Antonio Spurs and the New York Knicks dispute the NBA crown in a best-of-seven series that promises intense action and high-stakes drama. And this year’s Finals brings a meaningful storyline for this basketball-crazed nation with Jordan Clarkson and Dylan Harper...
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...
