Air 21 Express Blog Posts

The 2013 PBA Commish Cup Semifinals cast is nearly complete with three teams already advancing after the first whirlwind weekend of the Playoffs went underway. Alaska wasted no time in disposing of Air21 to be the first team to advance, the Texters s...

Quarterfinal positioning is getting nasty as the Elims wind up in the 2013 PBA Commish Cup. Allein Maliksi stepped up as the Energy Colasupended the Batang Pier. In Saturday’s curtain-raiser, Air21 beat Petron, 95-91, in overtime. In this...

Alaska remained supreme at the summit of the 2013 Commish Cup standings, while Rain or Shine distanced itself from the middle of the pack. San Mig Coffee also had a big win that enabled it to catch up with Ginebra at fourth spot. The last few elims p...

The Aces and Mixers made roaring comebacks, the Gin Kings won their fifth straight, and Eric Dawson dumped 57 big ones this past week in the 2013 PBA Commish Cup. Wednesday saw Meralco beat Petron, 102-92. As a team, the Bolts shot better than 50%...

Alaska and Rain or Shine remained firmly entrenched on top of the heap with wins this past Holy Week. Meanwhile, Meralco remained in the middle of the pack even as Barako Bull put themselves in a prime spot to contend for one of the bottom Playoff sp...

Armed with resounding wins, Air21, San Mig Coffee, and Ginebra all rose in the standings even as Rain or Shine tied Alaska at first place. In the meantime, the weekend also saw cellar-dwellers GlobalPort and Barako Bull remain in the quagmire, while...

Armed with resounding wins, Air21, San Mig Coffee, and Ginebra all rose in the standings even as Rain or Shine tied Alaska at first place. In the meantime, the weekend also saw cellar-dwellers GlobalPort and Barako Bull remain in the quagmire, while...

The race for the six Commish Cup Playoff spots heated up this past week with big wins from middling teams. An ROS win and a Petron loss put both teams right behind league-leading Alaska, while Ws by TNT, Air21, and Ginebra put them in prime spots to...

We are pretty much at the midpoint of the 2012-2013 PBA season, and  I thought it would be interesting to look at which players have been doing really well – well enough to be in the running for the conference and end-of-season awards as well as s...

Air21 continued to roll while Talk N Text and San Mig Coffee both got back on the winning track in the past two playdates of the 2013 PBA Commish Cup. All three teams, together with the Meralco Bolts, are locked right in the middle of the standings a...

The TNT Tropang Texters, Bgy. Ginebra Gin Kings, and Air21 Express all gained some ground in the race for the 2013 PBA Commish Cup Playoff berths by winning in contrasting styles this past weekend. In Legazpi City, Albay, Talk N Text handed Barako...

The SMC Mixers, Meralco Bolts, ROS Elasto-Painters, and Alaska Aces were the big winners of this week, while the Petron Blaze Boosters and the GlobalPort Batang Pier hit different snags in the battle for playoff position in the current PBA Commish Cu...

Alaska continued to dominate even against, arguably, the most talented team in the PBA, while the Air21 Express remain mired at the bottom of the standings. The Gin Kings also had a breakthrough performance this past Wednesday, finally nailing win #1...

All the four winning teams this past week got closer to undefeated league leader Alaska. Barako Bull and Petron both climbed just half a game behind the Aces, while ROS and TNT are both tied at fourth place with 2-1 slates. Keith Benson continued...

If one looks at the current PBA Commish’s Cup standings, he/she will be forgiven for feeling a little surprised. The Alaska Aces and the Barako Bull Energy Cola are the only unbeaten teams so far, with Global Port at solo third place. A bunch of te...

The 2013 PBA Commissioner’s Cup opening weekend was quite eventful, to say the least. All the favored teams were beaten by lower-seeded squads, former San Miguel Corp players reminded their former teams what made them so valuable in the past, an im...

A pair of surprising things happened this past Wednesday – Rain or Shine had an all too easy time disposing of the Gin Kings, while two highly-touted rookies seemed to sputter in their first taste of the PBA Playoffs. I picked the Gin Kings to t...

Niño Cañaleta has all the tools to dominate in the PBA. At 6’6”, he has the size to be the perfect “stretch forward” (i.e. a combo forward) in the PBA. With his handles, shooting, and leaping ability, Cañaleta is a more versatile scorer th...

Here’s some unsolicited advice for former (and probably soon-to-return) PBA player Japeth Aguilar – don’t come back. Or, at least, not to the PBA, where you’ll probably languish on the bench (any bench) again. Here’s my call – play...

As Ginebra rookie Chris Ellis flew in the air and slammed home a reverse jam to end the Gin Kings’ comeback win over the Rain or Shine Elasto-Painters, I thought, “Man, this kid is going to be awesome one day.” One day. Right now, Ellis i...