THE Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) celebrates its 50th year anniversary on April 9 next year—a date so appropriate for Asia’s first professional basketball league to have been born on an important day in the country’s history, Araw ng Kagitingan.
THE Philippine Basketball Association celebrates its 50th year anniversary on April 9 next year—a date so appropriate for Asia’s first professional basketball league to have been born on an important day in the country’s history, Araw ng Kagitingan.
And that includes Gregorio “Joy” Dionisio, the first player to shoot a basket in the PBA on April 9, 1975, for Concepcion Carrier which lost the inaugural game to Mariwasa-Noritake, 101-98, before 18,000 fans at the Araneta Coliseum. Ramon Fernandez, a four-time PBA MVP called the “El Presidente” and he with his trademark “Elegant Shot,” agreed with Co.
“Yes, of course Dionisio,” he said. “Not only Dionisio, but also those who made the first free throws and then, the three-point shot.”
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