Basketball Report

Rey Nambatac is aiming for a bounce-back conference this season. 💪

“I’ve been playing in the PBA for eight years, and ‘yun ‘yung pinaka-worst performance in a conference ko, so far,”

Source: Tiebreakertimes

Jericho Cruz provided a huge spark in San Miguel’s win over Macau. 🚀💥

Stats: 20pts 3rebs 2asts 2stls in 20mins

Made the most of his minutes with an energetic performance.

John Amores saw limited action in the loss to NLEX. 💪

Stats: 2pts 1reb 1stl in 7mins

Tough night with limited minutes, but stayed active on defense.

George King put together a dominant all-around performance in the win over Macau. 👑🔥

Stats: 30pts 5rebs 7asts 1stl 1blk in 37mins

Dominated on both ends with an impressive all-around performance.

Khabib Nurmagomedov’s past comments about Conor McGregor have resurfaced following the latest setback in McGregor’s career. 😔🥊

🗣️“Okay, if we talk about Conor, last couple years he’s not hungry. And now what happened with his legs, like, never ever. Never people come back, and never gonna be people on the same prime twice. Prime come only one time. You gonna be on prime, after that you’re gonna go down”

Machine Gun Kelly took aim at Conor McGregor with a harsh verbal jab. 😬🎤

“You look like a drunk, ugly extra in a Sherlock Holmes movie. Fck this guy. What in the Fck Liddell happened to the landing strip on your head? Worst 10 seconds I’ve ever seen.”

A Korean basketball analyst believes Yuki Kawamura is currently the best pure East Asian basketball player. 🏀🌏

“South Korean basketball fans who are fiercely devoted to their country refuse to acknowledge that Yuki Kawamura is currently one of the best players in East Asia.

However, I hold a different view. As of July 2026, Yuki Kawamura is indeed the most outstanding East Asian basketball player of pure East Asian heritage.”

(C: Baekpd1983)

Jas Mathur shared the latest update on the planned Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather rematch. 🥊📅

“The Floyd fight that everybody wants to know about, that fight is being postponed,”

“Right now the new tentative date that we have is going to be at the end of January. But there’s still other technicalities that need to be addressed before and based on other contractual obligations that Floyd has. So those need to be met in order for this to happen,”

Alex Eala says she takes pride in representing the Philippines wherever she competes. 🇵🇭❤️

“I’m so, so proud to be Pinoy, and I think that’s one thing that I share with everybody — the love of being Pinoy and the pride of being Pinoy. So, I do my best to showcase that,”

“If I get to touch others’ lives in a positive way, no matter how big the impact is, then I’ll be very grateful,”

(C: ABS-CBN)

PBA Insider believes Mike Phillips’ move to Japan will benefit both his development and Gilas Pilipinas. 🇯🇵💪

“Phillips shunning the PBA draft for Japan sucks for farm team beneficiaries but it’d clearly be great for his development as a player so this benefits Gilas immensely - same with guys like Ramos, Kq, Tamayo, Edu, etc, none of which’d improve as they did if they played locally.”

(C: PBA Insider)