- MMTLBA

2011-12 MMTLBA Tournament Juniors Division Final Statistical Leaders Highlights From 32nd MMTLBA Season by Henry Liao for philippinebasketball.ph (02/27/2012) Before the 42nd renewal of the Metro Manila Tiong Lian Basketball Association tournament becomes a part of its tradition-steeped history. Here are some highlights from the season past. In the Year of the Dragon, Chiang Kai Shek College made a clean sweep of the championships at stake in the Juniors, Aspirants and Girls High School divisions. The unprecedented feat is unlikely to happen again for a long, long time. That’s because some of seven member schools do not even have a girls’ team and perennial powerhouse Xavier School caters exclusively to male students. >> read more

- BADEN POWELL CUP

CKSC Blazing Dragons Reign Supreme On The Year Of The Dragon 2012 by Judelio Yap for philippinebasketball.ph (02/26/2012) Chiang Kai Shek College annexed its seventh straight crown in the recently-concluded 9th Baden Powell Cup Basketball Tournament by sweeping its best-of-three championship series against Inter-Scholastic Athletic Association (ISAA) stalwart Elyseum Christian School (ECS) in two games. The Blazing Dragons initially won the crown in 2006 and has kept its iron grip on it since then. >> read more

OTHER PHILIPPINE HOOPS NEWS

San Miguel, Cebuana invited to play in ABA Global League (01/26/2012) PBA professional team San Miguel Beermen and a reinforced PBA-D League frontrunner Cebuana Lhuillier, has officially been invited by the American Basketball Association (ABA Global) to play in the ABA league next year thru an acquisition of 2 California based teams. The filipinos will play side-by-side former NBA players in 2 seperate conferences which will be shown in over 30 countries including the United States and the Philippines. >> read more

- Samahang Basketball ng Pilipinas

Barrios, Baumann To Meet Geneva (03/16/2012) Renauld ‘Sonny’ Barrios, executive director of the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilpinas, left Thursday night for Geneva, Switzerland on the invitation of International Basketball Federation (FIBA) secretary-general Patrick Baumann to a meeting of the Competitions Commission on next-phase discussions of the new system that will govern world basketball tournaments. >> read more

- National Basketball Association (NBA)

HOOPSTER: 2011 NBA Finals: Mavs Are First-Time Champs By Henry L. Liao for philippinebasketball.ph (06/14/2011) The 65th season of the National Basketball Association is over following the Dallas Mavericks’ 4-2 victory over the Miami Heat in the best-ofseven Finals. The outcome of the 2011 NBA Finals was like the Biblical story that saw David slay Goliath. >> read more News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com - JR. NBA NBA Hall of Famer AC Green helps paint dolphin mural for NBA Green Week (04/19/2011) NBA Legend and Hall of Famer AC Green went on an NBA Cares Activity last April 11 after helping run the 2011 Jr. NBA National Training Camp at SM Mall of Asia. Green teamed up with reknowned mural artist and conservationist AG Sarno to paint a dolphin mural at the De La Salle campus to highlight the plight of dolphins and encourage their protection. Sarno, who has painted thousands of dolphin murals across the country and considers Green as one of his childhood heroes, invited Green to paint the mural with him. >> read more - Fr. Martin Cup 17th Fr. Martin Summer Cup Schedule (May 12 - June 18, 2011) 17th Fr. Martin Summer Cup Participating Teams 17th Fr. Martin Summer Cup Tournament Format

PBA Season One, 1975: A Lookback at History
By Henry Liao for philippinebasketball.ph (04/08/2012)

Traditionally, April 9 has been a “red-colored” national holiday in the Philippines as we Filipinos commemorate the fall of Bataan to the invading Japanese military forces during the four-year World War II hostilities.

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Kentucky Captures 2012 NCAA Title
By Henry Liao for philippinebasketball.ph (04/04/2012)

The nationally top-ranked Kentucky Wildcats beat the Kansas Jayhawks, 67-59, to romp away with this year’s U.S. NCAA Division I men’s basketball championship before a crowd of 74,000 at the Mercedes Benz Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Final 4: The Ides of March
By Henry Liao for philippinebasketball.ph (03/28/2012)

It is a historically famous warning, and for the last four remaining teams in the US NCAA tournament, it is something each must surely be taking to heart, whether or not anyone on the four squads has even heard it.

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HOOPSTER: US NCAA: Final Four Cast
By Henry Liao for philippinebasketball.ph (03/27/2012)

It will be the Louisville Cardinals (30-9) vs. the University of Kentucky Wildcats (36-2) and the Ohio State Buckeyes (31-7) vs. the University of Kansas Jayhawks (31-6) in the Final Four of the 2012 U.S. NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament.

The national semifinal games will be played on March 31 (Apr. 1, Manila time) at the Mercedes Benz Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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HOOPSTER: TL All-Star Selection Off to Taiwan
By Henry Liao for philippinebasketball.ph (03/24/2012)

The 13-man Tiong Lian All-Star selection to the Taiwan exhibition games next month has been determined.

Making the team are Tiong Lian Finals MVP John Kevin Baytan, Carlo Young, Wilson Bartolome, John Paul Nieles and Kimlee Bayquin from champion Chiang Kai Shek College, King Benemerito and Don Louis Me3noza of back-to-bnack runner-up Hope Christian High School, Jason Ligad of fourth-place St. Jude Catholic School, Philipp Glendale Licaros, Pierre Tyron Chan and Matthan Michael Yu of St. Stephen's High School, and Lanz Tan and Kevin Lao of Grace Christian College. >> read more