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TNT Tropang Giga is now one win away from the PBA Commissioner’s Cup Finals after a 93-85 victory over Rain or Shine in Game 4. Calvin Oftana and RR Pogoy led the charge, securing a bounce-back win after their Game 3 loss.
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Rain or Shine avoided another late-game collapse, holding off TNT 103-98 in Game 3 of the PBA Season 49 Commissioner’s Cup semifinals to narrow the series deficit to 1-2.
![Justin Brownlee and Jamie Malonzo led Ginebra’s offensive charge, combining for 47 points in Game 3. [PBA Images]](https://sportsbytes.com.ph/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/PBA-Images1315-400x200.jpg)
Barangay Ginebra dominated NorthPort once again, securing a commanding 127-100 victory in Game 3 of the PBA Season 49 Commissioner’s Cup semifinals, taking a 3-0 series lead and moving within one win of the finals.
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THE news of Yuka Saso winning the US Open for the second time was heard round the sporting world.
Toyota and Crispa played a pair of exhibition games dubbed the “Last Hurrah in Guam” in March 1984.
It was on February 1, 1984, when the basketball world was rocked following word that the fabled Crispa Redmanizers were disbanding after 10 seasons in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).
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Veteran coach Norman Black revealed that Samboy Lim played a big part in his basketball career here in the Philippines.
For hoop fans, this is best known as the celebrated comeback win of the Wranglers who were trailing by four, 94-90, with 16 seconds left in regulation.
Toyota import, Andrew Fields, delivered the winning points that night, scoring the last three that shoved the Tamaraws to a 102-100 lead coming from a 99-100 deficit with about seven seconds to go.
On July 19, 1975, U-Tex and Crispa-Floro played in a semifinal match at the Araneta Coliseum with the former winning, 111-102.