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BLM in the NBA - A List of NBA Players Who Have Joined Protests

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With little debate, the NBA, time and time again have been deemed as the most progressive sports league in the world. Not only now, in light of the George Floyd - Black Lives Matter movement in the past month, but this has been an occurring theme for most of the NBA's history. This is a topic that is easily bigger than basketball, now more than ever. Suddenly, the league going at a halt due to the Coronavirus matters less for everyone, for good reason. The NBA, having been established in 1946, drafted their first African-American player by the name of Chuck Cooper in the second round of the 1950 draft by the Boston Celtics, making it the third professional sports league on US soil to draft an African-American behind Kenny Washington of the NFL in 1940, and Jackie Robinson of the MLB in 1947, all legends in their respective sports. As of 2015, according to racial equality activist Richard Lapchick, the NBA composes of 74.4% of black players, making it a vast majority of the league. 
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The Philippine Basketball Association: An Analysis

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This first piece is something I've been planning to write about for years. This is part of a line of articles I will make, which are analysis' of leagues from around the world, excluding the NBA. I feel the world of basketball outside the NBA is extremely underappreciated. Yes, there is no doubt that the NBA is the best league in the world, but it is far from the only good league. Every respective league has its pros and cons, and that's what I want to share with the world. I am no expert on global leagues, and like most casual basketball fans, I only know my fair share of the NBA, and the national league local to you. Though I will dive into it with good old research.  What better league to analyze other than the NBA, than the PBA or Philippine Basketball Association, the main and most popular, but the not only league in the Philippines, my home country. Though to be honest, though I grew up here, I've always been watching the NBA growing up, which means I know very li
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Iced Water Ballin Revival - The Podcast

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Having made this blog in December 2018, virtually nothing has been done since except for a semi-pretentious introductory blog post. Turns out, setting myself up to write good sports content is not as easy as I thought it would be. I want to change the idea of how I wanted to do this blog, from now on, this blog will not be a traditional blog. It will be a dumping ground for the scripts I plan to make for a podcast. Yes, a podcast. But why? Since November last year, I have been working remotely as a Project Manager for a company called StartupBlink. It has been an extremely fulfilling ride since, and I wouldn't trade it for any job in the world at the moment. I feel like it was destined, I got the job in November, and 4 months later, the world transitioned into a work-from-home setup due to the Coronavirus. Thing is, due to the quarantine and not being able to see friends and my girlfriend, my life now consists, probably 80% of just working. Days go by just eating, working, and
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Behind the Baller

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Being in the Philippines, you know without a doubt that basketball is in our veins. From full-packed arenas to watch UAAP, NCAA or PBA games, to pick-up basketball on the side of the road, stopping the game every time a car has to pass. There is no doubt this is the number one sport in the Philippines. We are not the best nation in terms of basketball skill, although we are definitely one of the most passionate, which I believe with drive us to be one of the best in Asia. Growing up in a Spanish family in the Philippines, basketball was not my first sport. Actually, most of my life I was taught to play football, later on switching to baseball and then basketball. My family being huge in sports in general though, we would play all sorts of sports, so it was not as late as you might think. I did start taking basketball seriously in terms of playing pretty late, probably around third year high-school, largely because of my late but dramatic growth spert, from about 5'7 to 6'1
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