29 April 2017                      
 
Attention:           BAP Regional Directors, Commissioners, League-Organizations and Clubs
Re:                         New set of officers for the term 2017- 2020
From:                    BAP National Secretariat
 
Dear Friends and Members:
 
Greetings from the Basketball Association of the Philippines (BAP)!
 
Please be informed that BAP will hold its National Congress on June 17, 2017 (Saturday) at 10:00 a.m. at the Auditorium of the Technological University of the Philippines (TUP) along Ayala Boulevard in Ermita, Manila.
 
All BAP Regional Directors, Commissioners, Head of different Commissions, and league-organizations and clubs members, are enjoined to attend the Congress, which has been long overdue. This correspondence serves as an invitation.
 
The Registration period will be from April 30, 2017 to June 10, 2017. Registration forms are now available at the BAP National Secretariat office (E-mail: info.baplink@gmail.com) or check BAP website at www.baplink.com for print of Registration Form and email to info.baplink@gmail.com.

Attendees are to pay a Registration Fee of FIVE HUNDRED PESO (₱500.00). The amount is being charged to defray expenses to be incurred during the National Congress.

Transportation and dormitory expenses are also to be shouldered by the participants.
Certificates of Attendance will be issued to the participants.
 
For more information and inquiries, please feel free to contact the BAP National Secretariat through the following:
MR. ROBERT MILTON CALO
Mr. Leonardo B. Andres Sr.
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Tel. # 0917 895 6612 c/o Mr. Leonardo B. Andres Sr.
Tel. # 0917 806 5554        PISCUAA c/o Robert Milton Calo
Tel. # 0915 334 5651           SCUAA c/o Allan Soria

Interested parties who wish to be considered as a candidate for membership to the BAP Board of Directors for the term 2017-2020 may e-mail their credentials to info.baplink@gmail.com.

The positions up for grabs are:  President, Executive Vice-President, Vice-Presidents (three members), Secretary General, Deputy Secretary General, Treasurer, Auditor and Directors (five members).

Your unwavering support and commitment to the BAP will be validated by your attendance in the BAP National Congress.

Thank you very much.

Sincerely yours,

 
GRAHAM C. LIM
Secretary General,
Basketball Association of the Philippines (BAP) Inc.
 
                                                                                                Cc:          Members of the BAP Board of Trustees
 

October 28, 2016 
Zheng Chenggong Cup: Mission accomplished.
 
The Philippine National Police basketball team recently took part in the 9th Zheng Chenggong Cup international men’s basketball competitions in the bustling and booming city of Nan’an, Fujian province in the People’s Republic of China.
 
More than the results on the floor, the PNP Defenders played the role of the ambassadors of goodwill to the hilt, earning raves from their co-players from seven other teams from Taiwan, Republic of Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and the host country.
 
“The players adhered to fair play and sportsmanship throughout the five-day tournament and this is a pleasant development in international basketball,” said Thailand’s Hi-Tech team manager Piyapong Piroon.  “Win or lose, they never resorted to foul play.
 
Along the way, the PNP squad also fostered friendship and camaraderie among its peers and even to the local police force.  Many more were awed by the popularity of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte, who had just come from a state visit to Beijing together with a business delegation.
 
The local organizers were much thankful of Basketball Association of the Philippines (BAP) Secretary General Graham C. Lim, who was instrumental in bringing in club teams from Korea (Enerskin), Malaysia (all-star selection), Thailand Basketball League (TBL) champs Hi-Tech and the PNP Defenders.
 
Lim was boosted by the presence of Federation of School Sports Association of the Philippines (FESSAP) president David Ong; Asia-Pacific University Sports Union (APUSU) president and FESSAP Board chair Alvin Tai Lian; businessman-sportsman Tai Xin Ming; Megaworld Corporation & FESSAP Honorary Vice Chair’s Danilo Madlansacay; and International Basketball Federation (FIBA –Asia) Secretary General Emeritus and Asian University Basketball Federation (AUBF) Honorary President Dato’ Yeoh Choo Hock of Malaysia.
 
The PNP team leader was led by Police Senior Superintendent Gilberto Cruz with Federico “Eric” Samson as PNP Head Coach and assisted by Juven Formacil. Edmundo Ang, Team Coordinator; Maria Cecilia Sarmiento, Secretary; and players are Harold Decena, Abul Khair Bayabao, Japheth Cabahug, Ronaldo Abaya, Crislyn Elopre, Ricardo Cabrera Jr., Harold Sta. Cruz, Rodel Ongutan, Alejandro Yanguiling Jr., Antonio Tolentino Jr., and Paul Ogayon. 
 
Other teams that saw action in the 9th edition of the Zheng Chenggong Cup were Taiwan’s Fubon Braves, which featured Brooklyn Nets playmaker Jeremy Lin’s younger brother Joseph Shu-Wei Lin and American import Liam Paul McMorrow, and Kin Men Kaoliang, which was bannered by former pro-import Eugene Phelps; Singapore’s Tong Whye Physical Association, which had four Filipinos on its roster led by the Philippines’ Development League veteran and University of the East product Paul Christian Zamar, John Michael Noble Dagatan, Michael Gierald Parala Gomez and Ramsie Cinco Da Elvir; and the host Nan’an selection.   
 
In the end, the one-game finals featured a pair of unbeaten teams from Taiwan.
 
The Fubon Braves broke away from a close game with a 14-0 blast bridging the third and fourth quarters to erase a 55-50 deficit and moved ahead for good, 64-55, early in the fourth frame.
 
The tree-like McMorrow paced the 5-0 Braves with 26 points.  He was backed up by Wen Cheng Tsai’s 19 markers.  Lin contributed eight points.
 
Phelps, who suited up for Phoenix Petroleum in the recently-concluded PBA Governors’ Cup, netted 30 points in a losing cause.
 
In the battle for third place, Nan’an, which topped the 8th Zheng Chenggong Cup, whipped Korea’s Enerskin, 107-81.
 
Zamar, a son of former national team coach Boysie Zamar who last played for Cafe France in the PBA D-League, produced the tournament’s single-game individual high with 40 points in seventh-place Singapore’s 93-91 double-overtime loss to Korea’s Enerskin.  

In its front-page newspaper masthead, The Philippine Star proudly proclaims the “Truth shall prevail” slogan.
By: Graham C. Lim

Consequently, Star is expected to adhere to fair reportage where news reports and opinions of columnists may be rebutted or denied in print in the name of fairness. While “free space” is upon the discretion of the editors, the right to reply to a false accusation or inaccuracy in a newspaper must also be allowed to find print.  
 
One-sided or bias reportage has no space in a legitimate newspaper unless freedom of information is restricted only to the influential or powers-that-be.
 
For the second time in the Philippines Star, the Honorable Jarius Bondoc came out to malign me in his column for May 25, 2016 based on his alleged conversations with the honorable Jose “Peping” Cojuangco Jr., the long-serving president of the Philippine Olympic Committee.
 
The first time Bondoc came out to attack me in his column, I sent a letter to the Philippine Star editors to answer the unfounded accusations of Cojuangco and Bondoc against my person.
 
Not surprisingly, my letter failed to find print when fairness dictates the Star should do so.
 
Now comes again the rehashed accusations and imaginary charges against me in the May 25, 2016 column of the Honorable Bondoc.
 
All of the accusations hurled against me are the figment of imagination of Cojuangco and shamelessly parroted by his spin doctor, Bondoc.
 
Descriptions of how some people allegedly were illegally sent out to different basketball tournaments – such as those supposedly happening way back before 2012 – when, in fact, the Basketball Association of the Philippines had been out of the national basketball leadership (and replaced by the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas since the time) had already been in control of the national basketball leadership as early as 2008, is purely the work of a fiction writer or somebody suffering from symptoms of senility.
 
And after concocting those so-called stories, I am being accused of being a human smuggler in order to justify the aforementioned tales, I, having been the BAP secretary general, and Senator Antonio Trillanes, concurrently the BAP president whom Cojuangco and Bondoc find unadulterated joy in attacking for a political matter not related to my case, have been maligned with impunity.
 
Worse, I am saddened when I can’t fight back on a leveled field and reply to the accusations in the same forum (newspaper) that published them.
 
“Truth shall prevail” is the Philippine Star’s proud slogan.  Soon, the world will also find out the truth and, as they say, “the truth shall set us free.”
 
Change is coming.  And the truth shall be its biggest victor.

Date: Thu, May 26, 2016 at 4:40 PM
Subject: "Truth shall prevail" slogan!
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CEBU TO HOST ASIAN UNIVERSITY CAGEFEST
By: Graham C. Lim, September 4, 2014

For the second time in six years, Cebu city will host the 10th Asian University Basketball Championship (AUBC) from October 22 to 26. 

Six collegiate teams, including a pair of foreign entries from the People’s Republic of China and South Korea, are taking part in the prestigious regional competitions to be held at the tradition-steeped Cebu Coliseum.

The local participants will be spearheaded by the top schools from the Cebu Schools Athletic Foundation, Inc. (CESAFI) – the University of the Visayas (UV) Green Lancers, Southwestern University (SWU) Cobras, University of San Jose-Recoletos Jaguars and San Carlos University. UV, bannered by veterans John Michael Abad, Chris Perolino and Alfred Codilla, is the reigning CESAFI titlist, having beaten SWU, 3-2, in the 2013 finals to become the first team in league history to capture the crown after dropping the first two games of the best-of-five championship series.

Huaqiao University of the People’s Republic of China and Muongji University of South Korea, both of which are former AUBC champions, will be around to test the mettle of the best collegiate squads from Sugbu, the Queen City of the South.

Muongji University of Korea topped the 4th AUBC tournament hosted by Dumaguete City in 2005.  

Huaqiao University, on the other hand, whipped local bet University of the Visayas (powered by a young Greg Slaughter) during the 6th AUBC finals held in Cebu City in 2008. An international school, Huaqiao is located in Xiamen, China and has been supportive of AUBF activities since 2005.

In 2011, Guangdong University of PROC bested a Taiwanese squad to annex the crown at the Bintulu Stadium in Sarawak, Malaysia.  The following year, the University of the East Red Warriors, led by Roi Sumang, Chris Javier and Cameroonian import Charles Mammie, ascended to the AUBC throne in hostilities held at the Trinity University of Asia in Quezon City and participated in by foreign schools Hangtuah University of Indonesia and Universiti Technologi MARI of Malaysia.

The opening ceremony of the 2014 AUBC showcase is set for October 22 at the Cebu Coliseum owned by Attorney Go of the University of Cebu. 

The five-day international tourney is being organized by Lorenzo (Chao) Sy, the Basketball Association of the Philippines (BAP) Regional Director, in coordination with the Asian University Basketball Federation (AUBF) and the Cebu City Sports Commission under the City Government of Mayor Michael Rama.

Honorable Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama will be the guest speaker during the AUBC opening ceremony.                  

Prominent sports personalities invited to grace the opening are Federation of School Sports Association of the Philippines (FESSAP) president David Ong, BAP president Senator Antonio Trillanes, AUBF President Shin Dong Pa, AUBF deputy secretary general Park Hyun Mo, and CESAFI Commissioner Felix Tiukinhoy.

All-time Korean cage great Shin Dong Pa and Park Hyun Mo will accompany the Muongji University team to Cebu City. Muongji, whose head coach is Kim Nam Ki, seeks to duplicate its championship finish nine years ago. 

Lorenzo “Chao” Sy is the chairman of the AUBC Organizing Committee in coordination with the Asian University Basketball Federation (AUBF) and the BAP, which is recognized by the Federation of School Sports Association of the Philippines (FESSAP). (gcl)

June 07, 2014 Saturday, Wan Chai, Hong Kong

Congratulations to the New Set of Officers:

BAP Hong Kong, New South Chapter 




        BAP- Hong Kong New South Chapter Officers:
1.     Ruben A. Biascan           Chapter Commissioner

2.     Jover M. Lopez               Chapter Deputy Commissioner

3.     Santos G. Sanguir          Business Manager, Referee Affairs

4.     Jerry T. Brillantes           Assignment, Referee Affairs

5.     Romeo F. Casife             Treasurer

6.     Joe Langwas                   Adviser

7.     Michelle L. Regalado     Media/Table Official

8.     Edgar Batayola              League Commissioner

9.     Jessie C. Quevedo         Assistant Treasurer