"Fiba" Blogs & Blog Posts

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?

This has been a long delayed post, simply because the past couple of weeks have been… interesting, to say the least. In the previous post in this series, we looked at the TOP FIVE FIBA Asia Shooting Guards. These are the players usually tasked to t...

I entered the Philsports Arena last night giddy with the thought of witnessing the first practice of Team Gilas Pilipinas 2013. It was my first time to attend the national team’s, any national team’s for that matter, practice, and I felt a big me...

The 2013 West Asia Basketball Association (WABA) Men’s Championships, which served as the qualifying tournament for the 2013 FIBA Asia Men’s Championships in Manila, just ended and the top three teams after the three-day competition were Iran (Ch...

In the previous post in this series, we looked at the TOP FIVE FIBA Asia Small Forwards. These are the wing players who usually carry the bulk of the offense of any given team. More often than not, these are players who can do practically everything...

This post also appears on Rappler.com. Seventeen players have been named. Seventeen. Of that set, only twelve will make the final roster that will have the honor to accomplish the herculean task of earning a slot in the 2014 FIBA World Cup. In...