TWO basketball greats and three champion coaches all legendary in their own rights are the latest batch to be feted with a Lifetime Achievement Award in the annual San Miguel Corp.-Philippine Sportswriters Association (SMC-PSA) Awards Night on January 29. Hoop icons Allan Caidic and the late Avelino “Samboy” Lim join basketball’s brilliant…
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MANILA - Coach Chot Reyes could not help but be saddened following the news that Alaska will be leaving the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) after the Governors' Cup. After all, his career as a coach after playing collegiate basketball for Ateneo during the early '80s began with the Alaska franchise. "I started my PBA career as an assistant coach in Alaska, and I'm deeply saddened by the turn of events, but I guess-like I said when I told my players today-that's life. We really can't tell," Reyes said on Wednesday night, hours after the Aces' shocking announcement. The Tropang Giga had a scheduled game against the San Miguel Beermen at the Smart Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City where the former won, 96-81. There was even a time when Reyes handled Alaska on an interim basis when the Basketball Coaches Association of the Philippines barred American coach Tim Cone from gaffing the team in 1991 due to a violation in the Labor Code. Reyes was given th