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[Title] => Reid grateful to Pumarens
[Summary] => Hong Kong’s 6-8 center Duncan Reid paid tribute to Filipino coaches Derick and Dindo Pumaren for their efforts in improving the national team’s level of play at the 27th FIBA-Asia Championships which ended here last Sunday.
[DatePublished] => 2013-08-15 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 135698
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[AuthorID] => 1804869
[AuthorName] => Joaquin M. Henson
[SectionName] => Sports
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[ArticleID] => 1077771
[Title] => How mighty China has fallen
[Summary] => The situation couldn’t be worse for once-mighty China in Asian basketball. Last Friday night, the Chinese weren’t only booted out of title contention at the 27th FIBA-Asia Championships but also suffered the humiliation of losing to archenemy Taiwan, 96-78, in the knockout quarterfinals at the Mall of Asia Arena.
[DatePublished] => 2013-08-11 00:00:00
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[AuthorID] => 1804869
[AuthorName] => Joaquin M. Henson
[SectionName] => Sports
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[ArticleID] => 1078301
[Title] => ‘Darkest day’ in China basketball; Greek coach on way out?
[Summary] => A Chinese newspaper said it’s “the worst” basketball team China has ever assembled.
[DatePublished] => 2013-08-11 00:00:00
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[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1804774
[AuthorName] => Abac Cordero
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[Title] => Loud but not intimidating
[Summary] => FIBA Director for TV/News Media Rights and English hoop legend Paul Stimpson is in town supervising the telecast of the 27th FIBA-Asia Championships for worldwide distribution and he’s amazed at the enthusiastic hometown support for the host Philippine national team.
[DatePublished] => 2013-08-08 00:00:00
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[AuthorID] => 1804869
[AuthorName] => Joaquin M. Henson
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[Title] => China plays Yi Jianlian in easy win ahead of KO games
[Summary] => China played star Yi Jianlian some minutes to get his rhythm back in an 88-66 rout of Bahrain at the close of the second round in the 2013 Manila FIBA Asia Men’s Basketball Championship at the Mall of Asia Arena.
[DatePublished] => 2013-08-07 20:00:00
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[AuthorID] => 1114268
[AuthorName] => Alder Almo
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[Title] => Fiba Asia elims: When Yi hurts, China hurts
[Summary] => Just how serious is the injury that’s been keeping Chinese superstar Yi Jianlian in the current FIBA-Asia elims in MOA?
[DatePublished] => 2013-08-07 00:00:00
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[AuthorID] => 1804774
[AuthorName] => Abac Cordero
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[Title] => Wang treated shabbily?
[Summary] => It’s no secret that China coach Panagiotis Giannakis didn’t want NBA veteran Wang Zhizhi in the national team lineup for the ongoing FIBA-Asia Championships here.
[DatePublished] => 2013-08-04 00:00:00
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[AuthorID] => 1804869
[AuthorName] => Joaquin M. Henson
[SectionName] => Sports
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[Title] => Chinese still adjusting with Greek coach
[Summary] => Rajko Toroman can easily spot the difference between the Chinese team that won the FIBA-Asia crown in 2011 and the one vying for this year’s title.
[DatePublished] => 2013-08-03 00:00:00
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[Title] => Korea ambushes China; Qatar turns back Japan
[Summary] => The road to the World Cup is not going to be as smooth as China would have imagined.
[DatePublished] => 2013-08-02 00:00:00
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[Title] => Six NBA vets suit up in FIBA-Asia qualifier
[Summary] => Six NBA veterans are playing in the 27th FIBA-Asia Championships here starting today with China topping the cast in enlisting Wang Zhizhi, Yi Jianlian and Sun Yue. The other ex-major leaguers are Iran’s Hamed Haddadi, Japan’s naturalized player J. R. Sakuragi (formerly Henderson) and Qatar’s Jarvis Hayes.
[DatePublished] => 2013-08-01 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 0
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1804869
[AuthorName] => Joaquin M. Henson
[SectionName] => Sports
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