"Fiba-asia" Blogs & Blog Posts

Marcus Douthit and the ever-improving June Mar Fajardo are the top prospects to man the slot for Gilas Pilipinas in the 2013 Manila FIBA Asia Championships, but there’s someone else to whom we hoop nuts should all pay attention. He’s a big kid at...

The Asean Basketball League’s top three teams remained in the top half of the standings, as the Slingers, Slammers, and Heat continued to scramble for fourth place at the conclusion of the first ever ABL Hoops Fest in Saigon, Vietnam. The Slamme...

The Indonesia Warriors stayed on top of the heap after the first ever ASEAN Basketball League Hoops Fest, while the San Miguel Beermen and the Westports Malaysia Dragons, armed with contrasting wins, remained in the top half of the leaderboard. Th...

Several things stood out during the fifth practice session of Gilas Pilipinas at the Philsports Arena/Ultra this past Monday evening. First, there was a TV crew (I think they were from TV5, since one guy was wearing a TV 5 shirt) on-hand to film p...

Much like the previous practice, Day 4 was quite uneventful. Rather than have throngs of media storm the Ultra for a glimpse of the nationals, the evening was eerily peaceful. The practice didn’t have any big set pieces. In fact, an ignorant onlook...

There was a sense of mundanity in the third Gilas Pilipinas practice two nights ago at the Ultra/Philsports Arena in Pasig City. For one, only eleven players were dressed for the session. Jeff Chan, still injured, remained an observer. Alaska’s...

I found out on the day itself (Monday, February 20, 2013) that the venue of Gilas Pilipinas’s second practice was moved from the ancient Ultra/Philsports Arena in Pasig to the swanky Mall of Asia (MOA) Arena in Pasay. Okay. No biggie, right?