Gilas Pilipinas won’t have the luxury to play big with its tallest players in Kai Sotto and Quentin Millora-Brown out of commission for the third window of the 2027 FIBA World Cup Asian Qualifiers, but head coach Tim Cone is searching for ways to match the height of New Zealand and Australia. And...
Gilas Pilipinas head coach Tim Cone explained why two of his frontliners in Kai Sotto and Quentin Millora-Brown were absent in the Final 12 of the national team for the pair of road games in the third window of the 2027 FIBA World Cup Asian Qualifiers. Speaking at the end of the Gilas’ open...
A few weeks after getting married, Kai Sotto and Rere Madrid are expecting their first child after the Gilas Pilipinas star announced the pregnancy of his wife through an Instagram post Monday, June 22. “For a while, we’ve been living in our own little world. Holding onto a secret that made...
Gilas Pilipinas is set to play New Zealand professional teams Manawatu Jets and Franklin Bulls in a pair of tuneup games as part of its preparations for the July window of the 2027 FIBA World Cup Asian Qualifiers. Both the Jets and the Bulls announced their scheduled friendlies against Gilas with...
RJ Abarrientos, Troy Rosario, Justine Baltazar and Mike Phillips are named to the Gilas Pilipinas final roster for the pair of road games in the third window of the 2027 FIBA World Cup Asian Qualifiers. The Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas made the announcement on Thursday, June 18, with Justin...
The Gilas Pilipinas girls’ team opened its campaign in the FIBA U18 Women’s Asia Cup SEABA qualifiers in style, blasting Vietnam, 93-42, at the STI West Negros University Gym in Bacolod City on Tuesday, June 2. The Filipinas broke the game wide open behind a searing second quarter that saw them...
The Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (SBP) has tapped Sandy Arespacochaga as head coach of the national team’s U18 women’s squad which will vie in the 2026 FIBA Women’s U-18 Asia Cup SEABA Qualifiers next month. Arespacochaga, a well-respected mentor in the collegiate and professional ranks,...
The Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (SBP) is looking forward to announcing its new foreign coach, who will be tasked to guide Gilas Pilipinas Women as the federation makes a big push to qualify for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. SBP executive director Erika Dy bared plans to bring in a...
The Gilas Pilipinas women’s 3x3 basketball team is leaving no stone unturned in its buildup, doing everything possible to peak at the right time as it eyes an impressive campaign in the upcoming 2026 FIBA 3x3 World Cup slated June 1 to 7 in Warsaw, Poland. Bannered by Gilas mainstay Afril...
SAO PAULO (AP) — Oscar Schmidt, the Basketball Hall of Famer known to his Brazilian compatriots as the “Holy Hand,” died Friday, April 17. He was 68. Schmidt’s family said in a statement that he fought a brain tumor for 15 years “with courage, dignity and resilience . . . while remaining...
The Gilas Pilipinas women’s team is marching to the FIBA 3x3 World Cup for the first time in eight years. The Nationals dominated host Singapore, 21-10 in their do-or-die match in the World Cup qualifiers at the OCBC Square on Sunday, April 12. Kacey Dela Rosa stood tall and singlehandedly...
The Gilas Pilipinas Women’s team went on a Cinderella run and reached the FIBA 3x3 Asia Cup Final for the first time in history only for its dream to be shattered by Australia, which reigned the continental tiff for the fourth straight edition on Sunday, April 5, in Singapore. The Australians...
