The PHL Olympic hoops chase: History’s losing tag vs Japan reverses decades later

 

 

MANILA—Two must-win games remain. Two games. No matter the roadblocks along the way, even coming from some camps in the country’s professional league, a Philippine basketball team that mixes age and youth is keeping a nation’s hopes alive to erase nearly four decades of hoop mediocrity.

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Jaworski: The fighting Filipino hoopster

“Ja-wors-ki, three points!”
Do you remember those good ol’ days how barkers of games in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) would hollow the Araneta
Coliseum or the ULTRA with their monotonic voices? The only other time they’ll speak sounds like this: “Foul, Jaworski.” Oops, there’s one other time: “Jaworski, six fouls!” [Read more…]