After setting a new attendance record last year, Butuan City will host the Jr. NBA Philippines presented by Alaska Mindanao Regional Selection Camp for the second consecutive year at the Fr. SaturninoUrios University on April 13-14. The league’s youth basketball participation program returns to the Caraga region to teach basketball fundamentals and impart core values of the game to boys and girls ages 10-14.
Recent Los Angeles Lakers rumors involve head coach Luke Walton, who reportedly has suitors already should the Lakers fire him.
Los Angeles Lakers rumors have been running rampant since Magic Johnson shocked the world and stepped down as the team’s president of basketball operations. A lot of those Lakers rumors have involved people Luke Walton and what will happen with the team’s head coach.
It takes a lot for Stephen Curry to criticize anyone, let alone a fellow NBA player. But that’s what the Warriors star did Tuesday on social media after seeing teammate Draymond Green was voted the league’s most overrated player.
Everybody’s bummed.
Don’t be.
Through a remarkable set of circumstances that were somehow realized on the last night of the regular season, the Jazz were shoved into facing the Rockets in the first round of the playoffs, starting Sunday night in Houston.
Heads up, Gilbert Arenas is hoisting some wild shots.
Not on the basketball court. The one-time Most Improved Player for the Golden State Warriors, Agent Zero has been an NBA retiree going on a decade now. But he still reserves the right to launch — whenever, whyever, however.
Los Angeles • A short list of things that that mattered more to the Jazz on Wednesday than the outcome of their own game against the Clippers:
Whether or not the Oklahoma City Thunder defeated the Milwaukee Bucks. (They did.)
Whether or not the Denver Nuggets beat the Minnesota Timberwolves. (They did.)
The regular season has come to a close with a 105-94 Spurs win over the Dallas Mavericks in what was also the last game of Dirk Nowitzki’s career. After the Spurs dominated the first half, a couple of Mavs runs in the second half gave them a minor scare before the young guards came up big to secure the win and the 7th seed in the West.
The search for Magic Johnson’s replacement is something that the Los Angeles Lakers are going to need to handle with great care, and also something that cannot be rushed but needs to be sorted sooner rather than later. That said, recent Lakers rumors suggest they could have already found the ideal candidate.
Dedicated fanbases often experience events — both good and bad — as a collective, sort of like a hive mind where everyone’s thoughts and feelings are interconnected, and Dub Nation is no different. When the team wins games, everyone is obviously happy and thrilled; when the team inexplicably loses, there is the “sky is falling” mentality that everyone seems to espouse.
