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FATIGUE may have already caught up with Creamline. With the PVL Invitational preliminary round coming down to its final day on Sunday, Jaja Santiago-Minowa believes the Cool Smashers will hardly be alone in fighting through exhaustion as all six teams enter a survival-of-the-fittest race for the two remaining finals berths.

THREE weeks after, a new reinforcement has come the way of NLEX in the PBA Governors’ Cup. Former NBA player Deonte Burton arrived in the country over the weekend and went straight to meet his new teammates and reunite with coach Jimmy Alapag after showing up at the practice of the Road Warriors at the Epsilon Chi Center inside the UP Diliman campus. Alapag, who worked with the 32-year-old Burton during their time together with the Stockton Kings in the G.

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GILAS Pilipinas Tim Cone has ruled out Kai Sotto coming in as a last-minute reinforcement for the Asian Games-bound team after his bid to play in the US NCAA encountered eligibility roadblocks. The 7-foot-3 Sotto, who stood out in Gilas' wins over Jordan and Iran in the fourth window of the FIBA World Cup qualifiers, suffered a setback when his bid to play for Texas A&M was sidetracked by new rules on players who have played professionally before seeking exemptions to play in the NCAA.

THE ghosts of Thursday's five-set collapse were back to haunt Nxled barely a day later. After blowing a 20-12 fourth-set lead and eventually losing to EST Cola, the Chameleons found themselves staring at a hauntingly familiar scene against Ho Chi Minh, their 19-10 cushion suddenly down to just 22-21. This time, the Chameleons held on.

TEAM Philippines battled hard on a very demanding final day of the 31st Nomura Cup, tallying a final round level-par 144 to wind up just two shots out of the podium as Hong Kong polished off a wire-to-wire triumph with a closing 136 for a four-shot win over Japan.

NXLED made sure Friday would not end with another fourth-set collapse. The Chameleons survived a late Ho Chi Minh charge to pull out a 25-20, 31-33, 25-17, 25-22 victory in the 2026 PVL Invitational at the Smart Araneta Coliseum, moving into joint second place with PLDT at 2-2 (win-loss).

THE NBA ground is probably still shaking as we speak, judging from how hard Adam Silver and the Commissioner's Office came down on the Los Angeles Clippers over salary cap violations in signing Kawhi Leonard to On Friday, the NBA announced it has found the Clippers organization guilty of circumventing the league's salary cap rule when Leonard was signed to endorsement deals by companies doing business with the team, purportedly to augment the star player's compensation beyond what the rules...

THE noise was already growing louder after PLDT’s shock sweep loss to Nxled. Then came another stunning defeat to an inexperienced Ho Chi Minh side. And all of a sudden, the defending champions found themselves having to answer for more than just their struggles in their 2026 PVL Invitational title defense.