Category Archives: basketball

Wrote For Super

Wrote an article titled 'Assessing this year’s NBA' for Inquirer's Super. Inquirer was celebrating it's 25th anniversary and Pam texted me out of the blue to ask me to write any article as if it was still 1985. So I … Continue reading

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Cannot Sleep Post

I unfortunately cannot sleep. In lieu of ZZZs, I am thinking about the ff. (yes, let's bring on the famous bulletpoints). Start: 10:45PM. Foremost, is the incredible Facebook API, and it's recent decision to allow 3rd party developers to create … Continue reading

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A Review of ‘My Game’

This is a review of 'My Game', an hour long documentary by director-producer tandem Carlo Ledesma and Mel Lozano that aims to highlight the roots of some of our basketball heroes, namely Nike talents Ren-Ren Ritualo, Don-Don Hontiveros, Arwind Santos, … Continue reading

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I’m Going To Interview Kobe

Our good friends at Nike Phils. have for some odd reason found it fit for my lowly self to be in the presence of The Great One. I've waited for approx 2 weeks to finally make this announcement, preferring to … Continue reading

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Writing and Basketball and Art

I have told Art that I loved his narrative style on his blog a few days ago when we sat together at an event two weeks ago. For some reason I knew that he'd be a terrific read if he … Continue reading

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Legends Never Die.

I still cannot really come to believe that the great Dennis Johnson has passed away. Not that I've lost grip on reality, it's just that the Great DJ is such a larger than life character to me. He is my … Continue reading

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Basketball Exchange Calendar

baller freaks listen up. Repost from ballex. We've compiled every basketball related event calendar into one Super Calendar! This means you can get all UAAP, NCAA, PBA, NBA and World Championship schedules into one calendar, so you won't have to … Continue reading

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Letter from Botak re Basketball Exchange

I was ecstatic when I received this letter two days ago from QC based jersey manufacturer Botak, from time immemorial, the preferred jersey provider of the UAAP, NCAA, PBL, PBA, and just about any decent basketball league in the country … Continue reading

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Basketball Exchange’s Got Game! Gearing Up For UAAP.

Basketball Exchange.ph is almost three months old now, and goodness how time flies when you're having fun. And having fun we are! I've found two great writers Chip Lopez and Phillip Kimpo Jr., who by a stroke of sheer luck, … Continue reading

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Brothers of the Ball Unite! Write For BBall Exchange!

Brothers of the Ball UniteBasketball's all about love, and since I'm a world-class lover, I hasten onto this Earth once again The Basketball Exchange Philippines, to which all sorts of orange ball lovin' will reside.

Seriously, I've been dilatory in my duties as administrator and chief poster, so I'm making up for lost time, especially since the NBA Playoffs are way into the midst of their proceedings.

So First off, I'M LOOKING FOR MORE WRITERS. If you're like me, and you do imaginary lay-ups walking down the street, then you probably should seek professional help. However, if you can write about it as well, then GODDAMIT, VOLUNTEER NOW. Email at ghmercado at gmail dot com posthaste.

Secondly, I got myself a fancy new layout, settling on the 3 column Relaxation based Wordpress Theme after my initial 3 column preference called Tricolumn bombed. As it happens, 3 column Relaxation turned out to be Pinoytechblog's base as well. It's kinda ugly at the moment, and I hate the colors, but I'll get back to it soon enough.

Thirdly I got Feedburner to work and put two Google ads, one at the rightmost column and the other to show up during comments. Was working on a nice 468_15 text only setup for the header portion but it skewed things up so I'll leave it at that for the moment.

Finally, welcome Wilfred Gabriel of NBAaddict.blogspot.com as my first victim writer, and freshly grad Phillip Kimpo Jr. of Crimson Crux as my second. Well at least he's indicated he's interested, as he's yet to make a post yet.

So that's it. Get your game on, ball up, pass the rock, let's get the ball rollin' and all that crap.

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