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                    [Title] => Korte mipabor kang Villafuerte
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CEBU – Ang huwes sa Manila regional trial court mideklarar nga ang gihimong National Congress sa Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (SBP) ubos ni business tycoon Manuel V. Pangilinan kaniadtong Hunyo 12, null and void ug sa samang paagi, ang mga opisyales nga napili niadtong ilang tigum, dili tinuoray ug wala’y ngipon nga angay mopatuman og balaud.
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                    [Title] => RP basketball balik eksena na
                    [Summary] => Puwede na ngayong magsimula ng seryosong trabaho ang BAP-Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (BAP-SBP) lalo na si coach Chot Reyes, ang inatasang bumuo ng Pambansang koponan.
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                    [Title] => Unity at Last
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Is it Unity at last! or Unity at Last? 


This is a tough question to answer as both statements with an exclamation and question mark were my first reactions at the Unity Congress held at the Dusit Hotel last Monday. While everything from an observer's view looked good and politically correct, the skeptic in me couldn't help but ask if all this was for real. 


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                    [Title] => Basketball unity forged as BAP-SBP unveiled
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Finally, a united front in Philippine basketball.


In a rare show of unity, the biggest basketball figures in the country packed the Dusit Hotel grand ballroom yesterday and witnessed the birth of a new basketball association that is, hopefully, meant to last.


And after a three-hour Unity Congress attended by more than 300, the Basketball Association of the Philippines-Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (BAP-SBP) was finally announced along with its fresh set of officers.


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                    [Title] => Crisis over; feuding officials come to terms
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Now that its feuding basketball leaders have come face to face, in front of officials of the International Basketball Federation, the Philippines can look forward to the lifting of the FIBA suspension.


In a chance meeting in Bangkok over the weekend, officials of the warring Basketball Association of the Philippines and Pilipinas Basketball have finally agreed to put their act together.


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                    [Title] => Baumann magbabantay sa Basketball Unity Congress
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Mismong si FIBA-World secretary-general Patrick Baumann ang sasaksi sa magiging takbo ng itinakdang Unity Congress ng Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (SBP) ngayong araw sa Dusit Hotel sa Makati City.


Inaasahan ng SBP na magiging maayos ang gagawing pulong sa hanay ng mga basketball stakeholders, kinabibilangan ng PBA, PBL, UAAP at NCAA, na siyang pagkukunan ng 25 miyembro ng Board of Trustees na pagmumulan ng mga ibobotong opisyales.


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                    [Title] => BAP filing TRO vs Unity Congress?
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PBA board chairman Ricky Vargas said he received information from a reliable source that the BAP would seek a temporary restraining order to stop the holding of the Unity Congress Monday at Dusit Hotel.


"That is legal but if true, that move will only tear us further apart. It’s not gonna unite us because that’s very divisive," said Vargas.


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                    [Title] => BAP to boycott Unity Congress
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The Basketball Association of the Philippines, now under the leadership of  athletics president Go Teng Kok, has decided to boycott the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas Unity Congress on Feb. 5.


Go, who worked so hard for the BAP’s expulsion from the Philippine Olympic Committee two years ago, was  elected   president of the same association last Saturday.


Go  said all he wanted was to promote unity in the troubled basketball community, and have the FIBA suspension on the Philippines lifted.


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                    [Title] => Posibleng dili ma-'unity congress'
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Usa sa mahinungdanong yawi aron masulbad na ang kagubot sa basketbol dinhi sa Pilipinas mao ang "Unity Congress" nga gikatakda karong Pebrero 5 didto sa Dusit Hotel sa kaulohan. Gipasiugdahan kini sa Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (SBP) ubos sa inisyatiba nilang Manny V. Pangilinan ug Sen. Jinggoy Estrada.


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                    [Title] => Unity Congress to go on with elections sans BAP
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Pressed for time, the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (SBP) is holding the "Unity Congress" without delay on Feb. 5 and would reconstitute the 25-man interim board in the absence of nominees from the Basketball Association of the Philippines.


Thus said PBA commissioner Noli Eala, the SBP spokesman, amid reports that the BAP, now under Go Teng Kok, might not attend the congress, which is the culmination of efforts to unify Philippine basketball.


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UNITY CONGRESS

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In a chance meeting in Bangkok over the weekend, officials of the warring Basketball Association of the Philippines and Pilipinas Basketball have finally agreed to put their act together.


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The Basketball Association of the Philippines, now under the leadership of  athletics president Go Teng Kok, has decided to boycott the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas Unity Congress on Feb. 5.


Go, who worked so hard for the BAP’s expulsion from the Philippine Olympic Committee two years ago, was  elected   president of the same association last Saturday.


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Pressed for time, the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (SBP) is holding the "Unity Congress" without delay on Feb. 5 and would reconstitute the 25-man interim board in the absence of nominees from the Basketball Association of the Philippines.


Thus said PBA commissioner Noli Eala, the SBP spokesman, amid reports that the BAP, now under Go Teng Kok, might not attend the congress, which is the culmination of efforts to unify Philippine basketball.


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