DEFENDING champion Gilas Pilipinas men's 3x3 posted a 2-1 win-loss record in the opening action of the 31t Southeast Asian Games Friday at the Thanh Tri Gymnasium in Vietnam.
Represented by PBA 3x3 First Conference titlist Limitless Appmasters, the Gilas half-court aces started the day with an emphatic 19-7 rout of lightweight Cambodia.
ENCHO Serrano, JM Calma, and Nino Ibanes stamped their class on the final day of the PBA Draft Combine, steering the A-1 Converge team to the championship of the mini-tournament that capped the two-day event at the Gatorade Hoops Center in Mandaluyong City.
Ibanes topscored for 18 points, Serrano added 15, and Calma with 13 as they led their side to a 67-53 win over B-2 Rain or Shine in the winner-take-all finale.
FROM a welcome three-day breather, Barangay Ginebra and Meralco resume their showdown in what is now a virtual sprint race.
Both protagonists set out for the Easter Sunday run hoping for a good start right from the starting block and a sustained effort and energy in a fight for the pivotal 3-2 lead in the PBA Governors' Cup best-of-seven title playoff.
GILAS Pilipinas, among Team Philippines' elite bets in the 31st SEA Games, departs for Hanoi, Vietnam Friday evening, determined to carry the task of defending the crown most precious for the nation back home. NLEX stalwart Kevin Alas decided to skip the Games to be with his wife, former PBA courtside reporter Selina Dagdag who is currently suffering from a rare type of cancer. Jaydee Tungcab, a TNT special draftee in 2021, is eyed as a replacement. "Jaydee is flying with us to Hanoi.
IT could be a Ginebra night as far as the coronation of the Best Import and the Best Player of the Conference is concerned.
Justin Brownlee and Scottie Thompson are the top favorites for these two individual awards to be handed out shortly before Game Four of the PBA Governors' Cup Finals.
Yielding the All-Filipino crown earlier in the season, no way the Barangay Ginebra Kings would let this one slip away, too.
Justin Brownlee and his teammates extended their domination of the Meralco Bolts in their PBA Governors' Cup finals rivalry, staying on the throne with a 103-92 victory before a delirious crowd of over 20,000 at the MOA Arena in Pasay City Friday night.
SCOTTIE Thompson capped a remarkable PBA Governors' Cup campaign by winning his first ever Best Player of the Conference award in runaway fashion on Wednesday.
The Barangay Ginebra guard won the highest individual honor of the conference hands down, amassing a total of 1,128 points from the combined statistical points and votes from the media, players, and the PBA office.
JUSTIN Brownlee just keeps altering records as far as PBA imports are concerned.
Following his 40-point explosion in Barangay Ginebra's 115-110 win over Meralco in Game 5 of the Governors' Cup finals, Brownlee again put himself in the league's record book by becoming the first import to register 400 three pointers in PBA history.
FOR Justin Brownlee, fourth time's a charm.
The resident Barangay Ginebra reinforcement finally won his very first Best Import Award in the PBA Governors Cup Wednesday night, emerging as the unanimous choice for the honor against Magnolia's Mike Harris and Meralco's Tony Bishop.
