Category Archives: Players

Watch: Dwight Ramos Gilas Pilipinas Highlights

Dwight Ramos averaged 12.4 points, 6 rebounds, 2.6 assists and 2.1 steals in 10 games for Gilas Pilipinas in the FIBA World Cup Asian Qualifiers. His best game was against India scoring 21 points along with 5 rebounds, 2 assists and 4 steals.

Watch: Dwight Ramos Gilas Pilipinas Highlights Video

Watch: Jamie Malonzo Gilas Pilipinas Highlights

Jamie Malonzo averaged 5.8 points, 2.5 rebounds, 0.8 steals and 0.7 blocks in 6 games for Gilas Pilipinas in the FIBA World Cup Asian Qualifiers. His best game was against Lebanon scoring 15 points along with 5 rebounds, 3 assists, 1 steal and 2 blocked shots.

Watch: Jamie Malonzo Gilas Pilipinas Highlights Video

Get well LA Tenorio!

Former Gilas Pilipinas player LA Tenorio announced today, March 21 that he was diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer.

Give Gabe His Due

When coach Chot Reyes reassumed coaching duties for Gilas, he bared his plan to tap into Philippine basketball’s young talent, with an eye on the 2019 World Cup and beyond. This meant that one Gabriel Daniel V. Norwood would likely be out of the national team pool.

‘Happy and excited’ Almazan treasuring Gilas experience

Raymond Almazan SEABA 2017

Raymond Almazan is treasuring the experiencing of playing for Gilas Pilipinas.

The Rain or Shine forward will be making his maiden stint for the national basketball team when the Philippines takes on Myanmar in the opener of the 2017 SEABA Championships here in Manila, and Almazan said he is “happy and excited” to be part of the roster.

“One of my dreams makapaglaro sa bayan natin, i-represent yung country natin. Ang mahalaga dito yung nasa harap ng jersey mo eh,” Almazan said.

Matthew Wright Profile and Videos

One of the new players we believe that would make a big impact in the upcoming PBA season and also in future Gilas Pilipinas teams is Matthew Wright. Matthew Andrew Christopher Wright was drafted by Phoenix Fuel Masters in the recent PBA Rookie Draft where he will be reunited with his Malaysia Dragons coach Ariel Vanguardia.

Watch: Matthew Wright Interview

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Matthew Wright Profile
Birth Date: February 7, 1991
Birth Place: Canada

The Passion of Pingris

Marc Pingris

The backlash was immediate and predictably unpleasant, vile even.

The hero had turned heel; the patriot, now a traitor.

The criticisms were harsh, and largely uncalled for, really. Yet Marc Pingris took them all in—the spiteful comments that he had sold his basketball soul for money, the unflattering insinuations that he now loves the hand that feeds him more than his country, and the foul accusations that he has turned his back on flag and country—like the upstanding man he has become.

Through all the bashing, Marc Pingris stayed silent.

Hontiveros is back into action for Gilas

Dondon Hontiveros vs New Zealand

A pained look crossed the face of Kevin Braswell, the playing coach of the New Zealand team when Dondon Hontiveros, hot as fire swished in three triples in an overtime game in the 37th William Jones Cup held in Taipei a few weeks ago.

Hontiveros is now a four-time National team member as he makes it into the the 12-man Gilas line-up of coach Tab Baldwin, who’ll represent the country in the upcoming 2015 FIBA Asia Championship.