By ASSOCIATED PRESS   CLEVELAND (AP) — Cavaliers forward Evan Mobley has agreed to a five-year, $224 million contract extension with Cleveland, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press on Saturday night, July 20. Mobley ha...

Quezon Province extended its perfect run with a 90-85 wire-to-wire victory over Abra on Saturday, July 13, in the MPBL (Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League) Sixth Season at the Filoil Ecooil Centre in San Juan. The Quezon Huskers pulled away by 28 po...

By REYNALD MAGALLON   To no one’s surprise, Converge selected Justine Baltazar as the top overall pick while former NBA G-League player Sedrick Barefield was tapped second by Blackwater during the PBA Season 49 Rookie Draft at Glorietta Maka...

By REYNALD MAGALLON     The Gilas Pilipinas Boys found Lithuania simply too big and too strong, absorbing a 107-48 beating to open their FIBA U17 World Cup campaign on the wrong foot at the Sinan Erdem Dome in Istanbul, Turkey on Saturday, Ju...

By REYNALD MAGALLON     Gilas Pilipinas is not one to be content with moral victories. While the Nationals earned praise for putting up a fight in their 83-74 loss to a higher ranked Turkey in their tuneup game in Istanbul, the outcome still ...

By ASSOCIATED PRESS   The Dallas Mavericks are trading Tim Hardaway Jr. and three second-round draft picks to the Detroit Pistons for Quentin Grimes, a person familiar with the deal told The Associated Press. The person spoke to the AP on conditio...

By NIKOLE JAVIER     From brewing strong coffee, rookie Brandon Bates went up against even stronger big guys to help Meralco accomplish its maiden PBA title in the Philippine Cup against heavily favored San Miguel. The 27-year-old big man fro...

The next generation of PBA stars takes the spotlight on Wednesday as the Batang PBA 11-Under tournament gets going at the Ynares Sports Arena in Pasig. Players selected from a series of Batang PBA clinics in different areas around the country last summ...

By REYNALD MAGALLON       Even after three games into 2024 PBA Philippine Cup San Miguel head coach Jorge Gallent proved to have plenty of aces up his sleeve and he unveiled two of those cards in Game 4 to prevent the Beermen from fallin...

By REYNALD MAGALLON       June Mar Fajardo has won a record-extending 10th Best Player of the Conference award but nothing has changed for the 6-foot-10 gentle giant since the first time he claimed the coveted award. In the first nine BP...

By ASSOCIATED PRESS     Jerry West, who was selected to the Basketball Hall of Fame three times in a storied career as a player and executive and whose silhouette is considered to be the basis of the NBA logo, died Wednesday morning, the Los ...

By TIM REYNOLDS   DALLAS (AP) — The last 12 games where Kyrie Irving has played against the Boston Celtics have all ended with the same outcome. His team lost. It’s a streak that Irving and the Dallas Mavericks would desperately like to see ...

By REYNALD MAGALLON   Rebounding has been key so far in the 2024 PBA Philippine Cup Finals. The Meralco bigs came out to do the dirty work particularly in cleaning up the glass as the Bolts outrebounded San Miguel Beer in three games so far in the...

By ASSOCIATED PRESS     NEW YORK (AP) — When the Indiana Pacers compiled one of the best offensive seasons in NBA history, they were just getting warmed up. For Game 7 of the Eastern Conference semifinals, they delivered something really spec...