PAUL Lee was excited to learn about his trade from Rain or Shine to Star [now Magnolia], knowing the kind of starpower the PBA team possessed."Inisip ko kaagad Star Hotshots. Malakas pa 'yun. Nandoon pa si James Yap, nandoon pa ...
Aug 16, 2020
CHITO Narvasa admitted approving players' trades was the toughest decision that he had to make during his stint as PBA commissioner."When you make a trade, it's always very, very difficult," said Narvasa."Sometimes there are things that you cannot share ...
by Gerry Ramos
Aug 1, 2020
LIKE any father-son relationship, Johnny Abarrientos' ties with coach Tim Cone isn't perfect.In fact, the 'Flying A' recalled the relationship almost ended in 2001."Nagkaroon kami ng tampuhan when I got traded for some reason," Abarrientos disclosed in the ...
by Gerry Ramos
Jun 21, 2020
IT was an opportunity that was hard to pass up. Besides it also meant being reunited with a very dear friend.And so that was how Jerry Codinera's decade-long love affair with Purefoods ended 21 years ago.The great PBA ...
by Gerry Ramos
May 24, 2020
QUITE funny how the showing of 'The Last Dance' has left basketball fans very much interested and invested emotionally on Michael Jordan and the Bulls and events that happened to the team more than two decades ago.The first two ...
Apr 22, 2020
RABEH Al-Hussaini is now free as a bird.SPIN.ph learned NLEX is not keen on exercising its rights on the eccentric former UAAP MVP, making him an unrestricted free agent for the new PBA season.The 31-year-old Al- ...
by Gerry Ramos
Mar 6, 2020
RABEH Al-Hussaini's homecoming at NLEX for the PBA 45th season is unlikely to happen.The well-travelled big man was part of the package NLEX got when the ballclub, grudgingly we should say, parted with starting denter Poy Erram in ...
by Gerry Ramos
Mar 2, 2020
POY Erram was full of gratitude as he bid NLEX goodbye in a parting shot posted on his Instagram account on Sunday night.Now with TNT after a controversial three-team trade that also involved Blackwater, the 6-8 forward thanked every ...
Mar 1, 2020
IF Lady Luck smiles on them, Yeng Guiao and NLEX may end up getting someone like a Thirdy Ravena from the 2020 first-round draft pick which they got from Blackwater in the trade that sent Poy Erram to TnT KaTropa.That ...
Mar 1, 2020
FINALLY it's done.After more than a week and several revisions, the three-team trade that will have big man Poy Erram landing at TnT Katropa finally gained approval from the PBA almost a week before the start of the ...
by Gerry Ramos
Feb 28, 2020
BARANGAY Ginebra coach Tim Cone believes Greg Slaughter will not be retiring from basketball for good following his decision to take a sabbatical.Cone said he expects the Gin Kings' former No. 1 draft pick to return to the PBA eventually ...
Feb 27, 2020
TNT Katropa is willing to take the long route just to acquire a big man of Poy Erram's caliber.Even though it has already been a week and several revisions have been made on the three-team trade, the deal involving ...
by Gerry Ramos
Feb 25, 2020
SAN Miguel Corp. sports director Alfrancis Chua on Tuesday denied that Greg Slaughter wasn't offered a contract extension by Barangay Ginebra, or that there were plans to trade the big man before the latter decided to take a break from the ...
Feb 25, 2020
IT seems luring Poy Erram out of NLEX's lair is not as easy as TnT Katropa expected.The trade involving the Gilas Pilipinas stalwart remains hanging as a PBA committee has yet to give the green light to the three-team ...
by Gerry Ramos
Feb 20, 2020
WITH no resolution to Greg Slaughter's situation in sight, Barangay Ginebra didn't lose time signing up Prince Caperal to a new deal.The 6-foot-7 back-up big man and team management agreed on a new one- ...
by Gerry Ramos
Feb 20, 2020
UNLESS something strange happens, expect John Paul 'Poy' Erram to be moving from NLEX to TNT KaTropa in a three-team trade also involving Blackwater.The complicated trade, first reported by SPIN.ph's Gerry Ramos on Monday, will ...
Feb 19, 2020
THE committee that reviews players' trades in the PBA has asked the parties involved in the Poy Erram deal to make certain revisions for the transaction to be approved.The parties involved, namely, TnT Katropa, Blackwater, and NLEX were told about the ...
by Gerry Ramos
Feb 18, 2020
JOHN Paul ' Poy' Erram is returning to his roots.The vastly-improved big man is headed to the TnT Katropa prior to the PBA 's 45th season at the center of a three-team trade also involving his former ...
by Gerry Ramos
Feb 17, 2020
IF NLEX coach Yeng Guiao is to be asked, he would prefer that the Road Warriors not trade Poy Erram.The usually straight-shooting Guiao was ambiguous when asked about rumors that the NLEX big man is headed to sister team TNT ...
Feb 17, 2020
CJ PEREZ doesn't believe rumors about him being traded. But the pro that he is, he's prepared for any eventuality.The high-flying Perez has been at the center of trade rumors after a sensational rookie season in the ...
Feb 15, 2020
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