Charlie Cuna is an avid sports fan who has been covering Philippine college basketball online, and commentating for the Philippine Basketball Association either on radio or television, since 2004. He also commentated for the 2005 Southeast Asian Games and the 2008 Olympics, and has been invited as a resource person on several shows on TV or radio to give analysis on local basketball, as well as the NBA. He is a lawyer by profession, but his passion for basketball and local and international sports competitions is what keeps him sane.
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Expansion teams KIA and Blackwater are growing up quickly
When PBA expansion teams Blackwater Elite and KIA Sorento joined the league to start its 40th season, pretty much everyone said that both teams would struggle to get wins, considering their shallow lineups and lack of experience.
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What's eating the Beermen?
Call it “championship hangover” or whatever other name you want, but four games into the PBA Commissioner’s Cup, the “less-than-a-month-ago-crowned Philippine Cup champion” San Miguel Beermen find themselves mired in a winless run of four games.
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Checking in with Fil-Am college baller Taylor Statham
Back in July 2014, we featured a Filipino-American playing Division II NCAA basketball in the US, Taylor Statham of the University of California at San Bernardino (CSUSB).
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The comeback kids strike again
No matter what happens in the current PBA Philippine Cup Finals, whether the Alaska Aces or San Miguel Beermen claim yet another championship in both their franchises’ storied history, fans will be talking about Game 3 of the best-of-seven series for some time.
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Memorable Sports Moments of 2014: The NBA Finals
Real basketball fans appreciate good basketball. It should not matter who is playing. If plays are ran to perfection, ball movement is crisp, a team functions as one unit, regardless of which players are on the court, then that team is worth watching, and learning from.
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Personal musings on Samboy Lim
No, the man they call “The Skywalker” has not yet left this earth.
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'Chocolate Thunder' Darryl Dawkins steals the show as NBA signs new Philippine TV deal
The National Basketball Association has announced its new deal with its Philippine partners, Solar Sports (BTV) and ABS-CBN, for the broadcast of NBA games in the Philippines for the upcoming NBA season.
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Pinoy fans welcome Gilas to Incheon
INCHEON, KOREA - Gilas Pilipinas is ready to go to battle at the Asian Games, and the fans here are all pumped up.
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It's on in Incheon!
I am privileged to be one of the members of the coverage team for the Sports 5 network that is now in Incheon, South Korea to report and cover the 17th Asian Games. I, together with my colleagues, Patricia Bermudez-Hizon, Dennis Principe, and Chiqui Roa-Puno, with a small team of directors, producers, writers, editors, and cameramen arrived in Korea in the evening of 17 September to familiarize ourselves for the Games, which run from 19 September to 04 October 2014.
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Holding court with Avery Johnson, Robin Lopez, and Wesley Matthews
In recent years, the NBA has sent representatives to the Philippines on a regular basis in line with its various activities primarily meant to promote the game of basketball (3X3, Junior NBA) and to help in its global social responsibility program, NBA Cares.
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Fil-Am prospect Jawhar Purdy hoping to strut his stuff in PBA D-League
Among those who were keenly observing the PBA Draft proceedings was Jawhar Purdy, a six-foot Filipino-American guard who has been in town for a couple of months, readying himself for the PBA D-League Draft, which will be held on 19 September 2014.
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Grading the teams: 2014 PBA Rookie Draft marks
Once again held at the Robinsons Place Manila, the 2014 version of the PBA Rookie Draft took place last Sunday. All in all, 41 names were called and, as we all know, of that number, only a few will make opening day rosters or even be tapped as practice or reserve players.
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Talented Fil-Am guard Sofia Roman visits PH, tries out for women's national team
n June 2014, Sofia Roman took time over the summer to come to the Philippines to visit relatives and, primarily, to meet the team officials, coaches and players of the Discovery Perlas Philippine Women’s Basketball Team and, perhaps, get in a workout or two with them, for them to decide if she could crack the lineup.
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Fil-Am guard to play at Marqus Blakely's alma mater
There is a Filipino-American who will be playing for Vermont in the upcoming US NCAA season, looking to make a contribution there. His name is Ernie Marcelino Duncan, and he aspires to one day make it to the NBA.
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The Philippines is now one of my homes - Stephon Marbury
NBA veteran Stephon Marbury has returned to Manila for the fourth time in the past couple of years to continue his support for children afflicted with the liver disease called biliary atresia.
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Should Paul Lee go to Spain?
Twelve players won our hearts competing at the FIBA Asia Championships that happened throughout eleven days in August of 2013 at the Mall of Asia Arena. They won the silver medal, not the gold, but in doing so, they clinched for the Philippines a slot in the FIBA World Cup that will be held in Spain in just a few weeks, something that had not been done in forty years.
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San Mig Super Coffee slams it forward
They did it. For the first time in eighteen years, a PBA team swept all three conferences in one season en route to a coveted Grand Slam, which has been accomplished only three times in thirty-nine years of league existence.
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Meet Taylor Statham, another Fil-Am basketball prospect
In the recently concluded NBA Rookie Draft 2014, Filipino hoops fans were abuzz after the Washington Wizards chose Filipino-American Jordan Clarkson of the University of Missouri in the Second Round with the forty-sixth pick.
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Asi Taulava's Jaworski moment
What Asi Taulava did in his team’s matchup against GlobalPort on the date aforementioned was, to me, extraordinary and heroic. It might have been risky, too, but nobody even thought of that after bearing witness.
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Happenings in the first two weeks of the PBA Governors' Cup
Less than two weeks into the ongoing PBA Governors’ Cup and all teams have already played three or four games, in a rapid-fire, fast-break-paced conference, where games are being held every day of the week, except on Thursdays. There have been sterling performances, major disappointments, comebacks, blowouts, and down-the-wire finishes. Below are some happenings beyond the playing court.