House Bill 3783 and 3784 was filed by Antipolo City Congressman Robbie Puno that will help give citizenship to Andray Blatche of the Brooklyn Nets and JaVale McGee of the Denver Nuggets, the same resolution was filed to make Marcus Douthit a Filipino citizen.
After the approval of their citizenship, McGee and Blatche may join the Gilas Pilipinas pool but per FIBA rules, only 1 naturalized player may play per FIBA tournament.
Manny V Pangilinan (@iammvp) also made a tweet regarding this:
News: two NBA players may join Gilas Team. Javale Mcgee, Denver Nuggets. Andray Blatche, Brooklyn Nets. Go Gilas!
— Manny V. Pangilinan (@iamMVP) January 30, 2014
Great news for Philippine Basketball! This makes a statement that we are serious in continuing our quest to be competitive in International Basketball in the next few years.
hurray!!!!
Great news indeed!Puso!
javale mcgee, super athletic! andray blatche, so versatile! unfortunately javale mcgee is always a number 1 feature in Shaqtin a Fool! 😉
it’s better kung mag develop pa tayo ng SF(3) maliliit ang SF natin dito sa pinas. kung big men lng walng problema marami na tayung malalaki ngayun mas maganda kung mag hanap tayo ng malalaking SF 🙂
They Should pick McGee and Drop Kuya Marcus. Coz 1 naturalize player only will play for FIBA tourney.
These two fellows, 7’1 Javale Mcgee(with an unbelievable wingspan) and Andray Blatche first played with the Washington Wizards. They were drafted by the Washington wizards to complement their big three NBA all stars, Gilbert Arenas (PG),Antawn Jamison(PF) and Caron Butler(SF). The idea was to get the NBA championship for the capital City. The plan fizzled out and aborted with the ankle injury of Gilbert and the gun incident in the Wizard locker room which led to the suspension of their star, Gilbert.
Javale is now starting center of the Denver Nuggets while Andray plays forward and Center position for the Brooklyn Nets. They will certainly add height and firepower to the Gilas team.
sana mkapsok sa fiba world ang pilipinas khit pang apat lng…
pasok yan
dapat pure pinoy lang ! don’t like the idea
masarap manalo kapag lahat ay pure pinoy !
tama ka jan pero unfair kasi. masarap manalo tayu if sila din di gumagamit ng naturalized player.
Good news!!pero kailangan matrain ng husto sina japeth aguilar ,greg slaughter,at jun mar fajardo..go gilas..puso!!
go for blatche!!! great player for gilas system.
I prefer to naturalize the lopez twins, Brook and Robin. Both are seven footers and good carrer in NBA. Walang magawa si Haddadi sa kanila dalawa.
kung makakapsok ang isa sa dalawang iyan.. pano na si marcus??
:he will play professional in PBA and that is a dream of basketball player in philuppnes because of higher payment
Assuming both are naturalized, we will have 3 big NBA caliber players in the pool. Marcus can still play for us in the Asian level and in the process train our young centers.