NEW YORK (AP) — Victor Wembanyama has his first NBA Finals win — and the New York Knicks suddenly have a lot of work left to end their 53-year championship drought. Wembanyama had 32 points, eight rebounds and six assists, carrying the San Antonio Spurs to a 115-111 victory Monday night, June...
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump was booed loudly by fans inside Madison Square Garden when he was shown on video screens during the national anthem prior to Game 3 of the NBA Finals on Monday night, June 8. Trump was shown for several seconds giving a military salute. The boos ended when the U.S....
BACOLOD City – A scorching second-round showdown looms at the Negros Occidental Golf and Country Club as the race for the remaining ICTSI North vs. South Elite Junior PGT Finals berths reaches a fever pitch. With several heavyweights skipping the sixth and final leg of the Visayas-Mindanao...
Through the first two games of the PBA Season 50 Commissioner’s Cup Finals, some fans and critics are hard on Ginebra gunner Stephen Holt for what they believed his lackluster performance in the series. And the frustration was understandable. Holt was held to just one point in Game 1 and...
Justin Brownlee and RJ Abarrientos finished what Stephen Holt had started as Ginebra regained the series lead with a 116-102 victory over TNT in Game 3 at the Mall of Asia Arena on Sunday, June 7. Struggling all series long, Holt set the tone with his scintillating shooting from the field before...
The New York Knicks are up 2-0. They say they 're unfazed. The San Antonio Spurs are down 0-2. They say they 're unfazed. Such is the state of things in the NBA Finals, where both teams were taking a travel day on Saturday, June 6. Practices resume Sunday, June 7, and Game 3 of the title...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump, a longtime New York Knicks fan, said he plans to attend an NBA Finals game at Madison Square Garden next week at the invitation of the team 's owner. Describing himself as a “big fan” of the team and owner James Dolan, Trump said Thursday, June...
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...
