MANILA - Calvin Oftana will now be part of TNT Tropang Giga after the league's trade committee approved a three-team trade with NLEX Road Warriors and Blackwater Bossing on Monday. The Road Warriors sent Oftana and Raul Soyud to the Tropang Giga, who then gave up Troy Rosario and Gab Banal to the Bossing, who in turn shipped Brandon Rosser to the Road Warriors. Blackwater also gave up its second round picks for the Season 48 and Season 51 drafts to NLEX. Rosario and Banal's arrival will give the Bossing a huge boost as they look to begin the PBA Commissioner's Cup on a winning note right in the very first game of the conference against the Bay Area Dragons on Wednesday at the Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay City. Oftana, on the other hand, finds himself under the tutelage of coach Chot Reyes again at the Tropang Giga camp nearly a month after he was called up to Gilas Pilipinas for the fourth window of the FIBA World Cup Qualifiers. Rosser, the first overall pick of this year&#
The Blackwater Bossing released two different statements on the domestic abuse allegations against its player Paul Desiderio. Desiderio's former partner
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MANILA - The Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) will take a look at the allegations made by Agatha Uvero against her former fiance, Blackwater's Paul Desiderio. According to the league, it will probe Uvero's accusations that Desiderio was physically abusing her during their relationship. "The league will conduct an inquiry and hand down its findings and resolution as soon as the facts are clearly established. We are confident that the Blackwater management will extend its full cooperation and assistance toward ensuring that a just determination is reached," the PBA said in a statement. In a lengthy tweet earlier in the day, Uvero claimed Desiderio did a lot of violent acts on her like strangling, punching, kicking, throwing her to a table, slamming her face into the car window, and locking her up in a room. She added that he still strangled and threw her down even if she was two months pregnant with their child. "This report deserves to be given serious atte