Jimmy Butler's journey to the NBA Finals began when he was thrown out of home by his mother as a teenager.

LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers begin the final challenge in their bid to return to the summit of basketball on Wednesday (Thursday, Manila time) when they take on the Miami Heat team in game one of the NBA Finals.

Was President Duterte informing the United Nations merely for the record, or to lay the basis for an action plan, on the 2016 arbitral award in favor of the Philippines vs China affirming his country’s sovereign rights in its maritime areas under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea?

"We thank her for the praise, but we leave it to the president on how to proceed, henceforth, because the president is the chief architect of foreign policy," presidential spokesman Harry Roque said.

The NBA is ending its season soon with the Finals between the LA Lakers and Miami starting Thursday morning (Manila time) while the PBA is reopening its 45th campaign in Clark on Oct. 11.