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TODAY: Basketball Smart-Gilas faces elite squads in Amsterdam
MANILA, Philippines - If the PBA is rough sailing for Smart-Gilas, then coach Rajko Toroman’s national team is in for even stormier weather when it plays in the top-level Haarlem basketball tournament in Amsterdam Dec. 26-30. SBP executive director Noli Eala said yesterday the Haarlem organizers are inviting Gilas to play against the Dutch national team, the Russian national developmental squad, the Brazilian national quintet, the Brazilian club champion and a team from the Americas. Gilas will represent Asia in the annual competition. read more...
Smart's Giles on home leave, returns Sunday
MANILA, Philippines - Smart-Gilas naturalization candidate C. J. Giles will be on home leave in the US until Sunday to attend to his ailing four-year-old son Jaden who is scheduled for surgery with a blood clot in his arteries and only a five percent chance of survival. read more...Giles grapples with son’s health issuesBy WAYLON GALVEZ October 23, 2009, 6:06pm
Game on Saturday Games on Sunday (Araneta Coliseum) Smart-Gilas’ American import CJ Giles, a candidate for naturalization, was allowed on Friday by the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (SBP) to assess his situation after his three-year-old son, Jaden, was diagnosed with a heart ailment. This was disclosed by SBP executive director Noli Eala, who together with Gilas’ Serbian head coach Rajko Toroman, have decided to give the 6-foot-10 Giles a break until he figures out his future plans. “Coach Rajko and I have spoken to CJ to really assess his situation and find out if the SBP can be of help,” Eala said in a text message. “He is going through a difficult moment as his son’s condition is uncertain at this time.” Toroman says Gilas still has lot to learn
Smart-Gilas coach Rajko Toroman said yesterday the national team will learn to play physical from the experience of competing in the PBA Philippine Cup but qualified it won’t mean roughhousing or banging bodies with the intent to hurt. “In the Euroleague, the game is very physical but not dirty,” said Toroman. “Players use their bodies and legs but not their elbows or hands to hit others. There’s a big difference between playing physical and playing dirty.” Toroman said he was taken aback by Burger King’s extremely physical play in the first half of the Whoppers’ 115-105 win over Gilas at the Araneta Coliseum last Friday. “In my 46 years of watching basketball, I’ve never seen anything like it,” said the Serbian, noting he began to follow the sport when he was in fifth grade. “There were four flagrant fouls called against Burger King in the first half and I think two more should’ve been called because of the kind of contact that was made on our players. I couldn’t believe how our players were getting undercut and hit on the face with elbows.” read moreSlingers down Patriots, 74-69October 19, 2009, 4:42pm
SINGAPORE — The Singapore Slingers foiled the Philippine Patriots’ late surge and rolled to their second straight win while Indonesia’s Sutria Muda Britama and Kuala Lumpur Dragons also won in the ASEAN Basketball League (ABL) Invitational Championship. American imports Kyle Jeffers and Mike LeBlanc and Marcus Ng delivered the telling blows as the Slingers outlasted the Patriots, 74-69, to take the early lead in the 6-nation tournament. Over at Nimibutr National Stadium in Thailand, Sutria Muda Britama bounced back from a 67-75 loss to the RP Patriots last Saturday by eking out a 78-75 win over the Thailand Tigers while the Kuala Lumpur Dragons got back at the Brunei Barracudas, 76-73, in Brunei. read moreArboleda banned for rest of the seasonBy WAYLON GALVEZ October 19, 2009, 7:56pm
 Burger King guard Wynne Arboleda has been suspended without pay for the rest of the 2009-10 season for attacking a fan during their won game against Smart-Gilas last Friday at the Araneta Coliseum. The penalty, the severest handed by the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) against a player, serves as a strong warning that the league does not tolerate actions that harm the fans. “As we pointed out to you, even granting that said fan was foul-mouthed and verbally abusive as confirmed by reports to us, there is a ‘line’ that a PBA player cannot and should not cross: To physically harm a fan,” PBA Commissioner Sonny Barrios told Arboleda. BK thumps Smart Gilas; Arboleda mauls fan
MANILA, Philippines - Smart Gilas had its first taste of the pro play’s physical game yesterday, unable to sustain a steady stand and absorbing a 105-115 defeat at the hands of Burger King in a fight-marred tiff in the KFC PBA Philippine Cup at the Araneta Coliseum yesterday. “I think they will get better as they get tougher. The PBA brand of game is less physical than those played in Fiba Asia,” said Burger King coach Yeng Guiao. “As they gain experience and make the adjustment to the physical game, they’ll get their wins,” Guiao added. But not for now. read more
Rabeh adds heft, ceiling to Gilas five
MANILA, Philippines - Two-time UAAP MVP awardee Rabeh Al-Hussaini of the Ateneo Blue Eagles, has come to terms with Smart Gilas, agreeing to be part of the RP team competing in the 2011 Fiba Asia Championship before pursuing his dream to play in the pros. Minus the formal contract-signing, the 6-foot-7 Al-Hussaini joins Smart Gilas as it starts its guest stint in the KFC PBA Philippine Cup against Burger King at 2:30 p.m. at the Araneta Coliseum today. The durable Al-Hussaini will beef up the Smart-Gilas frontline together with 6-foot-9 Japeth Aguilar and 6-10 CJ Giles, who is being eyed by the team for naturalization. SBP executive director Noli Eala said they are waiting for the return of SBP president Manny V. Pangilinan from a trip abroad for the formal signing of Al-Hussaini’s pact. read more
Al-Hussaini signs up with Olympics-seeking RP Smart GilasThe RP-Smart Gilas team hooked up another rising amateur player in Ateneo ace Rabeh Al-Hussaini, who agreed to sign up with the squad being geared for a shot at the 2012 London Olympics.
Ateneo's Rabeh Al-Hussaini, right, soars for a basket during his stint
with the back-to-back champion Blue Eagles in the recent UAAP Season 72
wars. Jeff Venancio Terms of the deal were not immediately divulged, but SBP executive director Noli Eala said the Ateneo star center had agreed to a two-year deal lasting up to 2011.read more
SBP bids to host 2010 FIBA Asia Champions CupThe Philippines will be bidding to host the 2010 FIBA Asia Champions Cup, which might serve as a springboard to the country’s planned staging of the FIBA Asia Men’s Championship in 2011.According to Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (SBP) executive director Noli Eala, the SBP board decided to submit a bid for the Champions Cup to show the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) that the Philippines is ready to host major cage events.read
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Other Sports News: PSC boosts SEAG gold incentive to P.2 million
MANILA, Philippines - Philippine Sports Commission chairman Harry Angping yesterday sweetened the pot for Filipino athletes who will win the gold in the 25th Southeast Asian Games in Laos in December. Angping has dangled another P100,000 for every gold. This will be on top of the P100,000 gold medalists will get from the government under Republic Act 9064, also known as the incentives act. Under the law, a silver medal is worth P50,000 and bronze P10,000. But Angping’s offer will only cover the gold medal winners, adding that the money will come directly from the PSC coffers. “Granting that we win 50 gold medals in Laos, that will be a total of P5 million. I’m ready with the budget. This is the first time the PSC is giving out this kind of an incentive,” said the PSC chief.
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