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                    [Title] => Are Warriors the greatest ever?
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Golden State has surged out of the starting gates with a jackrabbit 16-0 record, the longest win streak ever in NBA history to open a season.

[DatePublished] => 2015-11-28 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135698 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804869 [AuthorName] => Joaquin M. Henson [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1520785 [Title] => US colleges head to China to grow basketball fan base [Summary] =>

Forty years ago, former basketball star Bill Walton made a decision he still regrets today. His UCLA college team was invited to play an exhibition game in China in 1973, the year it won its second national title with Walton, and he decided not to go. The rest of the team then stayed home, too.

[DatePublished] => 2015-11-10 21:57:30 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1435342 [AuthorName] => Justin Bergman [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1406046 [Title] => History on Christmas Eve [Summary] =>

‘Tis the day before Christmas and the whole world is stirring in anticipation of celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ. In sports, Christmas Eve was when several historic events took place.

[DatePublished] => 2014-12-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135698 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804869 [AuthorName] => Joaquin M. Henson [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1399754 [Title] => PBA: A 40th anniversary controversy [Summary] =>

When a PBA official informed me before the kickoff of the new season that they were preparing to name an additional 15 players to its “greatest” roster, I first thought of 19th century French author, Jules Renard, who once wrote, “We don’t understand life any better at 40 than at 20; but we know it and admit it.”

[DatePublished] => 2014-12-06 15:02:30 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1691158 [AuthorName] => Rick Olivares [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1379414 [Title] => Benjie Paras to son Kobe: Be humble, continue to improve [Summary] =>

The former two-time PBA MVP Benjie Paras is excited but wants to keep his son Kobe's feet still on the ground after they accepted the offer to join the UCLA Bruins by 2016.

[DatePublished] => 2014-10-12 18:51:30 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1114268 [AuthorName] => Alder Almo [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/sports/20141010/benjie-kobe-paras.jpg ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1351990 [Title] => Broken water main floods UCLA; people rescued [Summary] =>

A broken water main near the UCLA campus Tuesday sent a geyser of water some 30 feet (nine meters) into the air, forcing the rescue of people trapped in underground parking garages and covering some of the best-known parts of campus in water, including the school's famed basketball arena.

[DatePublished] => 2014-07-30 10:47:23 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1509741 [AuthorName] => Matt Hamilton [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/world/20140730/UCLA%20flood.jpg ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1253138 [Title] => Estatwa ni Russell ipinakita na sa publiko [Summary] =>

May kinilala uli na isang greatest sports champions ang Boston.??

[DatePublished] => 2013-11-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => PM Sports [SectionUrl] => pm-sports [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1244803 [Title] => NBA, basketball’s leadership [Summary] =>

The NBA has landed in the Philippines! October 10, 2013 will go down in history as the day that NBA players played a real game (albeit pre-season) on our shores.

[DatePublished] => 2013-10-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133719 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1536632 [AuthorName] => Navarro [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Sports [SectionUrl] => cebu-sports [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 631240 [Title] => Some surprise: Oden out for season again [Summary] =>

Calling Greg Oden the unluckiest guy ever to pick up a basketball doesn't do him justice.

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Wes Matthews scored 16 of his 18 points in the first half to help the Portland Trail Blazers end their four-game road trip with a 90-76 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks on Tuesday night.

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