THE Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) suspended the entire crew that officiated the Barangay Ginebra San Miguel-Magnolia match on Sunday night at the Smart Araneta Coliseum for a non-call in the dying seconds. Deputy commissioner Eric Castro, who primarily handles the PBA’s technical committee, said on Monday that chief official Peter…
A consistent scoring display in the PBA Finals allowed TNT guard RR Pogoy to leapfrog teammate Mikey Williams in the scoring leaderboard at the end of the Philippine Cup.
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Pogoy emerged as the best scorer in the all-Filipino conference after averaging 18.9 points per game, a hair
AS good as advertised, Mikey Williams is living up to the lofty billing as so far the best rookie in his class. And if there’s any doubt on it, the TNT Tropang Giga neophyte went up a notch and made a case as one of the league’s rising stars following…
Published March 7, 2021, 11:27 PM
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Justin Chua’s breakthrough performance in the bubble was finally recognized after formally receiving the Top D-Fender plum in the PBA Press Corps Awards Night held Sunday, March 7, 2021.
The Phoenix Super LPG center was named as the best defender of the Philippine Cup bubble by scribes, more than a month after falling short of claiming the Most Improved Player in the PBA Awards Night.
No one was happy with Chua winning the award more than his now-former teammate Calvin Abueva, a fellow member of the All-Defensive Team.
Abueva, who was recently traded to Magnolia, joked that he and Chua should split the award in half, prompting the latter to make a slicing gesture in jest.