Basketball

DESPITE winning the pivotal Game 3 over Magnolia Pambansang Manok by a mile last Sunday, Alaska Milk prefers to treat Wednesday’s all-important Game 4 of the PBA Governors’ Cup at the Smart-Araneta Coliseum like “another elimination game.”

DILIMAN College is this year’s Universities and Colleges Basketball League (UCBL) champion.

M7-Coffee Mix pulled back-to-back victories over Madam Tess, 107-102, last Dec. 4 and Pioneers, 111-86, last Dec. 2 in the Seniors A action in the 2018 MariQuina Basketball League-Q Cup tournament at the Parang Playground Court in Marikina.

THE cast has been set as a total of 48 hopefuls made themselves available for the 2018 PBA Rookie Draft.

LOS ANGELES --The Milwaukee Bucks bounced back from a disappointing defeat with a big win in Toronto on Sunday, edging the Raptors 104-99 in a battle of the NBA's top Eastern Conference teams.

Benin’s Kevine Gandjeto imposed his will inside in the payoff period as Diliman College outlasted Olivarez College, 63-57, and annexed its first championship in the Universities and Colleges Basketball League (UCBL) Season 3 yesterday.

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Jaylen Brown came off the bench to score 23 points as the Boston Celtics recorded the biggest margin of victory in franchise history with a 133-77 demolition of the Chicago Bulls on Saturday.

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson combined for 40 points as the Golden State Warriors avenged a November loss to the Milwaukee Bucks with a 105-95 victory on Friday.

POSTING a 2-0 lead in a long series could mean a lot, but it could also make one team to be too overconfident.

SAN Pedro College of Business Administration crushed University of the Philippines-Los Baños, 83-61, to extend its winning streak to three games in the 6th Laguna Colleges Universities Athletic Association (LACUAA) men’s basketball tournament at Trace College gym in Los Baños, Laguna.

XAVIER School routed Philippine Cultural College, 111-79, even as Jubilee Christian Academy toppled erstwhile unbeaten Grace Christian College, 69-62, in the Tanduay Athletics-Metro Manila Tiong Lian (MMTL) Alumni 40 years old and above basketball championship at the Tanduay gym last Dec. 7.

PHILIPPINE Cultural College subdued Uno High School, 88-74, and Chiang Kai Shek College outplayed Grace Christian College, 68-62, in the 2018 Tanduay Athletics-Metro Manila Tiong Lian Alumni 50 years old and above basketball championship at the Tanduay gym last Dec. 5.

Christian Standhardinger, Paul Lee, Chris Banchero, Stanley Pringle and Japeth Aguilar are the top contenders for the coveted plum which will be awarded before Game 4 of the best-of-7 finals showdown for PBA Governors’ Cup between Magnolia and Alaska.

Curry drained nine three-pointers and Kevin Durant added 25 points on nine of 16 shooting as the Warriors pulled away in the second half against a Cleveland team that bears little resemblance to the LeBron James-led Cavs that battled the Warriors in the last four championship series.