Rabu, 26 Mei 2010

NBA

Magic-Lakers unsullied


Magic-Lakers unsullied

The two teams last season's NBA finalists, the Orlando Magic and Los Angeles Lakers advanced to the regional finals. Both teams went smoothly after a 4-0 victory in the regional semifinals.

In the Eastern semifinals, the Magic managed to subvert the Atlanta Hawks, while the struggle was also not stained when the Lakers meet the Utah Jazz. Both teams won the game 4-0 in the format that best of seven series.

Although a visit to the headquarters of the Hawks, Philips Arena, Monday (10 / 5) night local time, the Magic show craze with a 98-84 victory.

The success of Magic is not free from Vince Carter's performances. 33-year-old forward scored 22 points and added 17 points from Rashard Lewis. While the Magic star, Dwight Howard contributed 13 points only.

In the Hawks camp, Jamal Crawford got off the bench to become the most fertile players with 18 points and followed by 16 points from Josh Smith.

This victory makes the Magic a chance to repeat the achievement of last season to play in the NBA finals. In the Eastern finals later, the Magic will challenge the winner between the Boston Celtics against the Cleveland Cavaliers. When this temporary position between the Celtics and Cavaliers as strong 2-2.



Challenge Lakers Suns


From the West wilkayah two finalist teams have been determined to be owned by the Los Angeles Lakers against the Phoenix Suns. Certainty is sharply Lakers obtained after removing the Utah Jazz with the score 4-0.

In four games at Energy Solutions Arena in Salt Lake City, Monday (10 / 5), the Lakers won 111-96. Center Pau Gasol contributed the highest figure for the Lakers with 33 points and Kobe Bryant scored 32 points. While Derron Williams and Paul Millsap each scored 21 points for the Jazz.

Furthermore, the struggle to defend the crown champion Lakers will be tested for the Suns in the final region. Successful Suns advanced to the Western region after the peak of the party overthrew the San Antonio Spurs with the score 4-0.

Belongs to the gym one Kobe and Lakers




Belongs to the gym one Kobe and Lakers

Kobe Bryant appeared exceptional in the West region first game NBA finals Monday (17 / 5) night local time.
Bryant was able to bring glory bow Phoneix Suns Lakers with a score of 128-107 landslide.

Staples Center has become a cage of death for every guest team. The Suns became the last team felt that the Lakers headquarters awesomeness.

Staples Center Tuah evidenced through the action of the capable Bryant scored 40 points. Lakers victory made them 1-0 ahead while the Suns.

'Kobe played very well when doing offense. I am not doubting his ability again, "said Phil Jackson, Lakers coach told the AP after the match.

Kobe is not only perform well, two other Lakers star, Pau Gasol and Lamar Odom is also capable of scoring double digits. Gasol contributed 21 points while Odom contributed 19 points and 19 rebounds.

While the printer's highest points from Amare Stoudemire Suns comes with 23 points and Jason Richardson with 15 points. Steve Nash had 13 points only pan.

Magic Steal Victory




Magic Steal Victory


Two pillars of the Orlando Magic, Jameer Nelson and Dwight Howard appear bright in the Eastern finals four games. While visiting the headquarters of Boston Cetics, TD Garden, on Monday (25 fifths) night local time. Magic 96-92 victory over the extension of time.

Sakitar witnessed 18 thousand viewers, Nelson can score the highest with 32 points followed Howard with 23 points. It was a frantic Celtics, Paul Pierce contributed the highest number with 32 points plus 22 points from Ray Aleen.

Pressure must indeed make direct Magic appeared to attack with 31 points so that wash over the Celtics winning the scoring just 26 points in the first quarter. In the second quarter, the Celtics scored 21 points while the Magic added 20 points.

Entering the second half, Boston scored 21 points and Magic wash only 16 points. Exclaimed the fight occurred in the last quarter. Both teams scored points in turn to each other. The results until the end of the fourth quarter, the game ended 86-86 draw and should be continued with over time.

During extra time, the Magic look good with the Celtics scored 10 points while adding only six points. Magic finally won the match with four points advantage over the host.

The success of stealing a victory at home to give depth to the Magic that the Celtics could prolong the breath to survive in the final region. Position while Boston was winning 2-1 over the Magic. Both teams will again compete in all five games to be held at Magic headquarters on Wednesday, May 26 next.

Rising Suns, Lakers tumbles




Rising Suns, Lakers tumbles


After swallowing two defeats at home to the Los Angeles Lakers at the final West region. Phoenix Suns got up to win. In the three games at Airways Center, Sunday (23 / 5) night local time, the Suns won 118-109.

The first victory at home to reduce the lag that makes the Suns a 1-2. Utilize regional finals best of seven series format.

Amare Stoudemire, Robin Lopez and Jason Richardson won the shoulder to shoulder for the Suns. In the first quarter behind 29-32 before the Suns had turned winning 25-15 in the second quarter. Entering the third quarter, returning the host Lakers lost the gained points. The Suns scored only 32 points while the Lakers added 37 points.

Turning points for the Suns win the resurrection occurred in the last quarter. With the Suns scored 32 points to ensure victory over the Lakers are only added 25 points.

Stoudemire scored the highest for the Suns with 42 points, followed by Lopez with 20 points and added 19 points from Richardson. While the highest contributor for the Lakers still held Kobe Bryant with 36 points followed by 23 points from Pau Gasol and 18 points from Derek Fisher.

Suns still will be the host when the host Lakers in four games which will take place on Tuesday, May 25 next.

NBA Trophy Coming Back in Surabaya



NBA Trophy Coming Back in Surabaya


Additional special guests will be present again in the NBA Madness Presented by Java Post, which was held in Surabaya on June 10 to July 4 next. Besides players, mascots, dance teams and the NBA, will also present the trophy sacred most popular basketball league in the world is. Namely Larry O'Brien Trophy.
At last year's inaugural NBA Madness, gold-plated trophy is worth hundreds of millions of rupiah was also present. The trophy on display in the arena of the NBA Madness, can be viewed directly by the visitors.
"Anyone have a photo opportunity with the trophy which desperately contested by NBA teams this. Origin, not to touch the trophy, "said Azrul Ananda, deputy director of Java Pos.
Larry O'Brien Trophy is specifically designed by the famous design house jewelry, Tiffany & Co.. Got weighed about seven pounds, the trophy is made of brass and then coated with 24 carat gold. 62 cm bertinggi trophy would be sent specifically from the United States to Surabaya.
NBA Madness Presented by Java Post is a basketball lifestyle event interactive, free to fans from all circles and age. All can enjoy a variety of typical NBA exhibition, all can participate in various games without paying. Thousands of exciting gifts were prepared for each day of administration.
At 10 to 20 June, this event was held in the atrium Tunjungan 3 Surabaya Plaza. According to schedule, the NBA dance team will be present to open the entire series of events.
Then, on June 24 until July 4, this event moved to larger venue, the atrium Supermal Pakuwon Indah, in the area of West Surabaya. In the third week, the NBA mascots were scheduled to perform. While on the closing weekend, the NBA star player's turn to greet fans.
NBA players that will become the fourth player in attendance in Surabaya since 2008. Follow the steps Danny Granger (Indiana Pacers), David Lee (New York Knicks), and Kevin Martin (Sacramento Kings first, now the Houston Rockets).
"We will soon announce the names of guest stars who were present. We also can not wait to get organized this event, "said Audri Masany, general manager of DBL Indonesia, the company administering the NBA Madness Presented by Java Pos.

Former NBA Players Visit Jakarta




Former NBA Players Visit Jakarta


After several NBA players, like Danny Granger and David Lee, now turn to one of the NBA legend Sam Perkins, came to Jakarta, Monday (24 / 5). Perkins came along with former WNBA star Sue Wicks.

Perkins who has appeared twice in the NBA finals with the LA Lakers and Seattle SuperSonics with the Wicks gives a brief training basketball for 49 children's orphanage in the United States Embassy in Jakarta. Any instruction given by Perkins and Wicks who assisted Indonesian basketball stars, like Fictor Roring, Andi Batam, and Xavier Prawiro enthusiastically followed.

In addition to strengthening cooperation between Indonesia and the U.S., the arrival of Perkins and Wicks as an ambassador for the NBA and the WNBA is also intended to popularize the sport of basketball for the young generation in Indonesia. In addition to children's orphanages, Perkins and Wicks will also provide training basketball for a number of students in Jakarta. Both skills will also compete with a number of national basketball players before heading to Medan to meet his fans there.

Hero of the NBA finals to Indonesia



Hero of the NBA finals to Indonesia

Trevor Ariza, Denver Nuggets Dancers, and Hugo RI to familiarize the NBA Madness

SURABAYA - Another young NBA stars come to Indonesia. Trevor Ariza, the Houston Rockets forward, would be a major star NBA Madness Presented by Java Pos, world-class interactive basketball event, which was held in Surabaya on June 10 to July 4 next.

Ariza will be the fourth NBA star who set foot in City of Heroes in the last two years. Following the steps Danny Granger (Indiana Pacers), David Lee (New York Knicks), as well as in the Rockets' teammate, Kevin Martin.

However, Ariza is the first ever NBA champions enjoy so. In 2009 then, while still incorporated in the Los Angeles Lakers, he is the hero of the final. A number of shots three scores to help Kobe Bryant and other colleagues to defeat the Orlando Magic and was awarded a Champion.

When present in Surabaya on the cover of NBA Madness weekend Presented by Java Pos, July 1 to 4 later in Supermal Pakuwon Beautiful, Ariza will be able to answer the question of how good it has the league's most prestigious championship ring.

"I'm really happy to have the opportunity to come to Surabaya. Thanks to Java, the Post has invited me to be part of this exciting event, "said the player who just turned 24 that year. "I can not wait to meet soon with the fans in Indonesia, and have fun with them," she continued.

Shortly after helping the Lakers to be the champion, Ariza did move the team. He moved to the Rockets, after the team offered him a lucrative contract, worth EUR 33 million (about USD 300 billion) for five seasons.

On the Rockets, 203 cm player that can not only pay steady. He was also given the opportunity to develop themselves. In the 2009-2010 regular season ago, Ariza statistics recorded the highest average in his career, which is 14.9 points, 5.6 rebounds and 3.8 assists. He also became the major mainstay in steals (steal the ball), namely 1.8 steals per game.

Ariza would not be alone enliven NBA Madness Presented by Java Pos. Denver Nuggets Dancers the pretty ones will appear first on the opening weekend, June 10 to 13, in the atrium Tunjungan Plaza 3.

Later, the New Orleans Hornets mascot Hugo, will be horrendous Supermal Pakuwon Beautiful on the third weekend, 24 to 27 June. Hugo will feature various attractions hilarious, at once enthralled the audience with acts of acrobatic slam dunk.

"Rows of guest stars the NBA Madness Presented by Java Heading this year is to make us happy. If last year's NBA Madness in Surabaya is called as the best in Asia, this year we believe can maintain the standard. Moreover, people are more familiar, and fans from all over Indonesia will come to Singapore to enjoy this event, "said Azrul Ananda, director of Java and DBL Pos Indonesia, the organizer of the NBA Madness in Indonesia.

This world-class event year enjoyed up to 700 thousand visitors during the four weekends. Indeed, this event is open to fans from all walks and ages. All can come to the mall atrium, berpartisipasidalam various exciting competitions in the field portable or enjoy the authentic NBA exhibition exclaimed.

Games offered include Java Post Slam Dunk Contest, Flexi Dance Competition, Honda Matic Shooting Stars, and Platinum Speed Challenge. "Thousands of prizes will be available for visitors who participate, both in the field and in booth-booth of the partners," added Masany Audri, general manager of DBL Indonesia.

Strong Same Suns and Lakers 2-2



Strong Same Suns and Lakers 2-2


Phoenix Suns beat the Los Angeles Lakers back in the fourth game Western Conference finals the United States Basketball League that was held in Arizona on Wednesday (26 / 5). With this result, both teams now share the numbers 2-2. The fifth game will be held in cage Lakers.

Kobe Bryant barren who do not resemble the numbers in the first quarter made the Lakers missed. In the second quarter, Kobe began to wash points. Kobe donated as much as 15 digits in this quarter.

But Kobe can not match the greatness of the players Suns collectivity. Amare Stoudamire led the pack 21 points, the Suns finally win the match with a score of 115-106. Suns victory also inseparable from the contribution of 54 points from reserve players.

Sam Perkins Jagokan NBA Champion Boston




Sam Perkins Jagokan NBA Champion Boston


USA Basketball legends Sam Perkins, who sponsor the Boston Celtics will come out as champions this year. Although pro-LA Lakers, Perkins is confident with the material of Boston today. Sam Perkins thus disclosed during a visit to Indonesia, Wednesday (26 / 5).

"It's nice because there are great players who play there. There is Lebron James of Cleveland Cavaliers and Dwight Howard of the Orlando Magic or the Boston Celtics Rajon Rondo and also with the Los Angeles Lakers. I think Boston and LA will meet in the finals," Perkins said.

Meanwhile, regarding the impression to train Indonesian children play basketball, Perkins claimed happy. "Overall everything fun. I think the kids easily receive a lesson. And we liked their most obedient, listen carefully and follow the exercises well," he said.

President Obama Want to Back Champion Lakers



President Obama Want to Back Champion Lakers


President of the United States (U.S.), Barack Obama turned out to observers of the NBA basketball competition. Obama did not hesitate to give predictions about the NBA finals this season.

Already entered the territory NBA finals. In the East, while Boston Celtics 3-1 victory over the Orlando Magic. In the West, the Los Angeles Lakers to temporarily share the score 2-2 with the Phoenix Suns.

"I support the Lakers again. I think Gasol is currently the best player in the league giants. He differs with Dwight Howard but extraordinary footsteps, quick, smart, and he played incredible, "Obama said to TNT.

Obama also acknowledged the progress was very impressed with the Boston Celtics in the last few years, but the number one in the United States remains convinced that the Lakers are still the best.

Men who take up the name of Indonesia is currently assessing the Lakers the NBA's best players be strengthened types of Kobe Bryant, Pau Gasol. Also famous Lakers coach Phil Jackson had believed Obama would be hard to conquer the Celtics.

"Kobe is a fierce competitor in the league and they've got what I believe to be the best coach Phil Jackson, so they will become the greatest and I think the final will take place fierce. Boston a veteran club but the Lakers look better," concluded Obama.

Bravery of this Phoenix Sun is blinding on and off the court



Bravery of this Phoenix Sun is blinding on and off the court


AMERICA AT LARGE: THE MOST recent episode came in the waning seconds of Sunday’s NBA play-off game in Phoenix. The Lakers, about to be beaten for the first time in the year’s Western Conference championships, were pressing all over the floor, and when Steve Nash wriggled free to take an inbounds pass, Lakers forward Derek Fisher left his feet in a desperate lunge to intercept the ball.

Suffice it to say if this had been an NFL game, Fisher would have drawn an automatic fine for a helmet-to-helmet hit. But this was basketball, and nobody was wearing helmets. Although it was plainly the result of aggressive play on the part of both men, the collision precisely mirrored one I witnessed outside a Glasgow pub after closing time years ago. When Fisher drove his head into Nash’s nose, the splintering of bone and the grinding of cartilage was audible on television sets around the country.

But it wasn’t the inadvertent head-butt that defined this one as another Steve Nash moment, rather, the player’s reaction to it.

When he (painfully, no doubt) hauled himself to his feet, it became apparent Nash’s nose was pointed in the approximate direction of his right ear. Suns trainer Aaron Nelson raced onto the court to offer assistance, but before he could even get there Nash had reached up and, with a television camera right in his face, snapped his proboscis back into place. He shook his woozy head a couple of times and then, waving Nelson back to the bench, headed for the foul line.

In the ensuing head-on shot of Nash at the free-throw line, the nose resembled a blob of modelling clay. On the other hand, his right eye, which had been elbowed by San Antonio’s Tim Duncan a few weeks earlier, looked almost, though not quite, human. The once gruesome purple had given way to green.

That injury hadn’t driven Nash off the court, either, even though he played the entire second half of the play-off win over the Spurs with the eye swollen shut.

In that Sunday night game, by the way, the Phoenix players were sporting their sort-of-bilingual “Los Suns” jerseys, a move encouraged by Nash and his multicultural team-mates as a protest against Arizona’s new immigration law, which codified regulations pretty much mirroring those of South Africa during the apartheid era. (And, come to think of it, it was a response to apartheid that led Nash’s parents to move with their infant son from Johannesburg to Victoria, British Columbia, almost 35 years ago.)

The latest injury, “a minimally displaced nasal fracture with displaced cartilage”, was repaired via non-invasive surgery on Monday, and on Tuesday night Nash was back on the court as the Suns defeated the defending champions 115-106 to even the series at 2-2 going into tonight’s game in Phoenix. That he logged just 30 minutes in Game Four was more attributable to early foul trouble than to the nose.

I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for athletes in any sport who are the guys with the dirtiest uniforms and the floor-burns from diving after loose balls. Usually the fellows who exhibit these traits are those with less natural talent than their colleagues, who have managed to reach the uppermost levels of their given sport by going the extra mile in sheer hustle. The bona fide superstar who exhibits these characteristics is a rarer animal still, but Nash fits into this latter category.

It would be inaccurate to describe him as underappreciated, either in the US (he’s a seven-time All-Star and a two-time NBA MVP) or in his adoptive homeland. He was one of four Canadians chosen to light the Olympic Torch in Vancouver this winter, and has to be the leader in the clubhouse for Canada’s Sportsman of the Year.

That said, Nash would be worthy of our admiration if he never dribbled another ball or threw another no-look pass. Ours is an age in which matters of conscience are easily subsumed by marketing considerations, and political stances, when they exist at all, are coloured by contractual status.

From the outset Nash put himself on the line, criticising Canada’s participation in the ill-fated adventure in Afghanistan long before it became fashionable to do so. He became a lightning rod for criticism with his stance on the war in Iraq as early as 2003, when he wore a T-shirt reading “No War. Shoot for Peace” to the All-Star game in Atlanta.

It was a particularly courageous stance, since Nash at the time played for the Dallas Mavericks in George W Bush’s home state. Nash reported the response was, all in all, positive, although he encountered taunts ranging from “Why don’t you just shut your mouth and stick to basketball?” to “Go back to Canada!”

The latter came mostly from the same people who have been known to taunt African American athletes by waving bananas while telling them to “Go back to Africa”.

There is some delicious irony at play here, in that while 79 per cent of NBA players are men of colour, primarily African Americans, Nash is one of a handful who was born in Africa.

You’d have to say that when it comes to Iraq, history has made Nash, at least among basketball players, a prophet.

As for the Arizona immigration bill, it has been so widely criticised by everyone from President Obama on down I’ve often found myself wondering who could be for it?

But then yesterday, while I was still mulling over my reaction to watching Nash rearrange his schnozz, I chanced upon a dissenting opinion from the neo-con examiner.com columnist DK Jamaal, himself an Afro-American, which demonstrates, if nothing else, that xenophobia, stupidity and intolerance are not the exclusive province of the American Redneck: describing the Phoenix players who made their statement with the jerseys they wore in Game Three as the “Lost Suns”, Jamaal reserved particular venom for Nash, whom he described as “an overrated Canadian point guard”.

The stop-and-frisk-for citizenship papers policy mandated by the Arizona law is a national embarrassment almost certain to be struck down on Constitutional grounds at the first serious court challenge, but, wrote Jamaal in its defence, “70 per cent of Arizonans support the law. 60 per cent of Americans support the law. I don’t know how the law has been greeted internationally, nor do I care”.

That Steve Nash does care is even more admirable than the broken nose.

Jordan smashes Indonesia for 2-0 in Tianjin

Jordan smashes Indonesia for 2-0 in Tianjin - Aug 7, 2009

JORDAN - INDONESIA 105-47
As it was expected, Jordan was way better than Indonesia securing a place for the next stage even one day before the end of Preliminary Round. Jordan now has 2-0 in Group D, while Indonesia fell to 0-2. Islam Abbaas (201-C-80) was totally the best player in victory. He spent 23 minutes on the floor registering monster double-double, 23 points and 11 rebounds. Mohammad Hadrab (201-F-84) had 16 pts and 10 rebounds, while Jamal Almaaytah (213-C-81, agency: Passing Lane, college: Greensboro) also had double-double, 12 pts and 11 boards. Indonesia did not have any player with double-digits in scoring. Their best one was Kelly Purwanto (-G-83) with 8 pts.
Jordan was slightly better team in the first quarter ending it with 4-point lead, 21-17. After that moment Kelly Purwanto and his teammates somehow stopped. They faced with big problems at the offensive end, especially with running the plays and turnovers. On the other side, Jordan had couple of players in a game mood which Indonesians were not able to guard. Everything resulted with 26-5 for Jordan in the first half (plus 25). Nothing has changed after the breather. Islam Abbaas had no mercy for Indonesia helping his team to make 26-12 in third and 32-13 in the last quarter.
Tomorrow in Tianjin, Jordan will meet UAE. Indonesia will take on Lebanon.

Asean Basketball League updates



Indonesian - Men Basketball

Asean Basketball League updates - Sep 1, 2009
Basketball luminaries of six ASEAN nations to gather at the Renaissance Makati City Hotel in Metro Manila today as they look to officially signal the beginning of a new era in Southeast Asian basketball.

In addition to the their own local hoop leagues in their respective countries, the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei and Singapore have all contributed in setting up a regional league that will, in no doubt, pour into a simmering cauldron diverse basketball styles, as well as the passion of country-to-country rivalries.

So the newly named Patriots, Tigers, Satria Muda, Barracudas and former NBL team the Slingers are set to do battle in the inaugural professional b-ball league of the region.

Mirroring the Euroleague in the West, the ABL has its own set of rules in terms of its roster makeup and salary caps.

As for playing personnel, teams are permitted two imports of non-ASEAN citizenship, two ASEAN imports, one player with one Southeast Asian parent, and seven local players.

Teams are however, allowed to field a team of all local players if they so wish.

Salary cap issues were not available to the media at press time and may be revealed during the launch on Tuesday, September 2.
The tournament is to be played according to FIBA rules.


Indonesian - Men Basketball



Indonesian - Men Basketball

2009 IBL cup tournament - Nov 20, 2009

Two IBL clubs, Pelita Jaya Esia (Jakarta) and Garuda Flexi (Bandung) will hold IBL cup tournament at this month. Both clubs will be a promoter after previous official promoter TV One wasn't held this event. The event will take place in Jakarta and Bandung at 24-28 November. Ten IBL clubs will be divided into 2 groups. Group A will compete in Jakarta and group B in Bandung.



Group A
Pelita Jaya Esia (Jakarta)
Satria Muda Britama (Jakarta)
Nuvo CLS Knights (Surabaya)
Muba Hangtuah Indonesia Muda (Muba)
Angsapura Evalube (Medan)




Group B
Garuda Flexi (Bandung)
Aspac (Jakarta)
Stadium Bhinneka (Jakarta)
Citra Satria (Jakarta)
Bima Sakti Nikko Steel (Malang)

This tournament will use IBL regulation except for some points. One of them is the number of players for each club. If in IBL regular season every club is using 17 players, so in this event they can use 20 players. It's good for all young players each club. This event also will be an excellent warming up clubs before follow new IBL regular season next year in March. So, welcome back all IBL clubs!




Better Must IBL 2010


JAKARTA - The prestigious event IBL basketball competition in 2009 has entered the final phase.
However, the Chairman of the Board of Commissioners IBL Ade Bella Harahap did not deny the many deficiencies of this year the implementation of IBL. He also hoped, the quality of performances in 2010 IBL season will be enhanced in order to guarantee the future of basketball in this country.

Laga IBL finals or championship games in 2009 will bring together two teams of capital, Satria Muda (SM) Britama as the defending champion, and XL Aspac Jakarta. Both are going to the title after the final match melakoni best of five format.

In a press conference in Beyond Cafe & Resto, Kebayoran Baru, Friday (24/07/2009), Ade took dividing IBL season expectations related to the implementation depan.Sedikitnya number of participants (10 teams) that follow the IBL this time making the tournament lasted less exciting. However, Ade also understand the difficulties the teams to find sponsorship so they can follow the tournament.

"This year is a challenge for the IBL to continue to consolidate to improve the implementation of the 2010 season later," he said.

"Everyone knows how the IBL in 2009 this condition. Not only promoter who had difficulty obtaining a sponsor, but also clubs," added Ade.

"Therefore, along PERBASI, we'll clean up in order to improve the quality of IBL team (next season). Summer 2010 there will be the main sponsor of the warranty. Because the problem is actually sponsoring the promoter affairs, not our business," she added.

"The situation is getting better country, as well as economic conditions. I hope to soon be back IBL official recognition by the sponsor."

Furthermore, Ade was revealed, if the sponsorship problem solved, then the IBL can deliver more intense competition where every club has the same chance of becoming champions.

"May the IBL will be showing a tight match. Do not just some teams that stand out. For example, to determine who entered the new playoff series could be determined during the regular six," concluded Ade.

Kelly Purwanto and Pelita Jaya Jakarta Esia Aim IBL champions 2010


Who does not know Kelly Purwanto? Players are well known through the skin kepiawainanya play a round with a variety of tricks and style. Eccentric player who has almost 25 tattoos that adorn his body. Yup, Kelly is now a hot topic IBL [Indonesian Basketball League]. Former Point Guard Flexi Club Garuda Bandung [which is now merged with Pelita Jaya Esia since September 2009] was two days ago [Monday, September 14, 2009] officially became a "Property of Pelita Jaya Jakarta Esia".

Event press conference held by the management deliberately Pelita Jaya Esia lasted very fun and full of warmth. The event which took place at Planet Hollywood Cafe was deliberately set coincided with the opening hours of fasting. Food buffet for print and electronic journalists who come into the show when it was closing press conference that was deliberately prepared by the management board [which at the time were seen almost all present]. "This event was deliberately us [the management] to get closer and make silahturahmi to media friends, as well kemabalinya Kelly told the child was missing and some changes that we made in the ESIA Team Pelita Jaya itself," explained Andiko Punomo Ardi , as General Chairman of PB Pelita Jaya Esia.

At the same time also, Pelita Jaya Esia also explained about Ali Budimansyah who has taken his retirement as a professional basketball player and joined the Coaching Staff Team Pelita Jaya Esia. This is all done to sharpen the strategy game in the stronghold of Pelita Jaya Esia. "With Kelly Purwanto expected to play at this club has become more solid and ready to achieve a predetermined target Champion for 2010," adds Rastafari Horongbala, Pelita Jaya Esia coach.

Target, IBL champions 2010! Looks difficult? Why not. With the squad, coaches and management as it is now, not a 'dream in broad daylight' if Pelita Jaya Esia make such targets. Look at the various changes that have occurred and the real things that have been disclosed in terms of building management Pelita Jaya Esia dynasties such as the 1990 & 1991 [when the team managed to become champions Pelita Jaya Kobatama]. "Ranking 5 [five] what we accomplished in the IBL in 2009 is the target we've set for this year, but we will not be complacent in these positions so that we do various improvements to achieve a better target for the upcoming 2010 competition," says Ronald Simanjuntak as Club Manager Esia Pelita Jaya.

Hmmm, sure with all that? Must! There is a saying that "The journey that started miles away from the step" And Pelita Jaya Esia has started the move ..

rules of baskletball



PR N°25 - The FIBA Central Board approves historic rule changes

GENEVA (FIBA) – The FIBA Central Board, the highest executive body of the International Basketball Federation, met yesterday, Friday 25th April, and has continued its session today, Saturday 26th April, in Beijing, China. The meeting has been organized in cooperation with the Chinese Basketball Association.

An additional press release containing several important decisions of the FIBA Central Board will be issued in the next hours. However, this morning the Central Board has taken some major and historic decisions as with regards to the game rules.

Indeed, upon recommendation of the FIBA Technical Commission (a group of experts that deal with the game rules), the FIBA Central Board has approved today several amendments to the Official Basketball Rules.

The recommendations by the FIBA Technical Commission and the decisions taken by the Central Board were strived by the attempt to further unify all existing game rules and to have, in the future, only one set of rules for the game of basketball worldwide.

Please find below a summary of all approved rule changes, which include historic amendments like the extension of the 3-point line (in place since 1984) and the change of the trapezoid restricted area (in place since the 1950s) to a rectangular one:

OFFICIAL BASKETBALL RULES 2008:

All below-mentioned rules will come into effect as of 1st October 2008, i.e. after the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.

Art. 4.3 Uniforms

The provision that T-shirts may be worn by players under their game uniforms is not valid anymore.

Art. 25.2.3 Player falling on the floor

It is legal when a player falls and slides on the floor while holding the ball.

Art. 28.1.3 Ball goes into team’s frontcourt

The ball goes to the teams’ frontcourt when, during the dribble from backcourt to frontcourt, both feet of the dribbler and the ball are in contact with the frontcourt.

Art. 30.1.2 Ball returned to the backcourt

It will not be a violation anymore if a player, who jumps from his frontcourt, establishes a new team control while still airborne and then lands in his team’s backcourt.

Art. 31 Goaltending and interference

If a player reaches through the basket from below and touches the ball, it is an interference (and not a simple violation) with all the relevant rule consequences.

Art. 36.1.4 Unsportsmanlike foul

If a defensive player causes contact with an opponent from behind or laterally in an attempt to stop a fast break and there is no opponent between the offensive player and the opponents’ basket, then the contact shall be judged to be unsportsmanlike.

Art. 38.3.1 Technical foul

A technical foul can be called on a player for excessive swinging of elbows (without contact).


OFFICIAL BASKETBALL RULES 2010:

The below mentioned rule amendments will come into effect as follows:

• For high level competitions/Level 1 (main FIBA official competitions: i.e. Olympic Tournaments, World Championships for Men and Women, U19 and U17 World Championships for Men and Women and Zone/Continental Championships for Men and Women): as of 1st October 2010, i.e. after the 2010 FIBA World Championship.

• For medium level competitions/Level 2 (i.e. all other FIBA official competitions and the high level competitions of the national federations): as of 1st October 2012, i.e. after the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Art. 2.2.3 Free-throw lines and restricted areas

The restricted areas shall be the floor rectangle areas marked on the playing court.

The restricted (three-second) area shall be a rectangle (not anymore a trapezoid) as per Diagram 1 below.

Art. 2.2.4 Three-point field goal area

The distance of the three-point line shall be 6,75 m (and not 6,25 m as present).

Art. 2.2.6 Throw-in side lines

The two (2) small lines shall be marked outside the court, on the opposite side of the scorer’s table and the team bench areas, with the outer edge at the distance of 8,325 m from the inside edge of the end lines; in other words, level to the top of the three-point line.

During the last two (2) minutes of the game and of the extra period, following the time-out granted to the team that has been entitled to the possession of the ball from its backcourt, the subsequent throw-in will be taken on the opposite side of the scorer’s table from the “throw-in side line” and not as presently from the centre line extended.

Art. 2.2.7 No-charge semicircles

The no-charge semicircles shall be marked on the playing court, under the baskets. The distance of the inner edge of the semicircles shall be 1,25 m from the centre of the basket (on the floor).

A charging (offensive) foul should never be called if the contact by the offensive player is with the defensive player standing within the no-charge semicircle.

Art. 29 Twenty-four seconds

If the throw-in is to be administered in the backcourt, if required by the respective rules, the 24 second device shall be reset to 24 seconds.

If the throw-in is to be administered in the frontcourt, if required by the respective rules, the 24-second device shall be reset as follows:

- If 14 seconds or more are displayed on the 24-second device at the time the game was stopped, the 24-second device shall not be reset and shall remain the same.

- If 13 seconds or less are displayed on the 24-second device at the time the game was stopped, the 24-second device shall be reset to 14 seconds.

For a clearer visualization of the first four changes above, please refer to the Diagram 1.

Phoenix Zoom Features


Phoenix: Arizona home team, the Phoenix Suns, increasing his lead over the San Antonio Spurs to 2-0 in the Western Conference semi-finals of the American Basketball League (NBA).
Playing with orange costume that read "Los Suns" as a protest against the new law an anti-immigration in the state of Arizona, Phoenix sink Spurs struggle with numbers 110-102. Figures printed in Phoenix in this victory was not much different to what they achieve in the first game while winning 111-102.

In the second game which took place Thursday (6 / 5) pm or Wednesday local time, the player forward, Amare Stoudemire who fell off the bench, became a star with the donated 23 points and 11 rebounds for Phoenix victory. Two guard, Steve Nash and Jason Richardson scored 19 points. Medium forward Grant Hill contributed 15 points and six rebond.

In the stronghold Spurs forward Tim Duncan became the player printer figures with 29 points ever. He also contributed 10 rebounds and three assists for the Spurs. Point guard, Tony Parker, who plays off the bench contributed 20 points, three rebounds, and 3 assists. Medium forward Richard Jefferson scored 18 points. This player also scored rebounds and assists in the amount equal to that achieved by Duncan, 10 rebounds and three assists.

Kdua teams playing tight since the beginning of the game. Up to two first quarter, as strong positions 51-51. In the fourth quarter of the new Pheonix could show signs will win the match when leading 78-76. When the time 3 minutes 34 seconds left, Stoudemire scored six points and Hill made two free throws to bring Phoenix led 103-92. Parker's three-point throw and a dunk Duncan Spurs a 103-97 ketertingalan minimize the time when leaves 2 minutes 0.5 seconds. But in the remaining time that the Phoenix back through the throw away Nash and Richardson.

With the victory, the Phoenix had a great chance to escape to the West Regional final. But they have scored two more in a semi-final victory which uses a system of this best of seven series.