Saturday, July 23, 2011

PBA vs NBA 2011 Exhibition Game Results: NBA wins over PBA, 131-105

The super exciting matchup of PBA superstars vs NBA superstars happened earlier tonight, July 23, 2011, in Araneta Coliseum and was aired live at AKTV on IBC13.

As part of the 2-game series dubbed as the Ultimate All-Star Weekend, the NBA team (as Smart All-Stars), composed of Kobe Bryant, Derrick Rose, Kevin Durant, Chris Paul, Derek Fisher, Tyreke Evans, James Harden and Derrick Williams, faced our very own PBA All-Stars in the hard court, with the NBA team winning bigtime over PBA, 131-105.

The PBA All-Stars was comprised of James Yap, Mark Caguioa, Jayson Castro, Sonny Thoss, LA Tenorio, Larry Fonacier, Solomon Mercado, Alex Cabagnot, Marc Pingris, Rabeh Al-Hussaini, Gary David, Gabe Norwood, Ryan Reyes, Danny Seigle, JC Intal and Arwind Santos, who even made it to Twitter's Top 10 Trending Topics worldwide.

Here's the scores after each quarter:

1st Quarter: NBA 30, PBA 26
2nd Quarter: NBA 66, PBA 50
3rd Quarter: NBA 107, PBA 78
4th Quarter: NBA 131, PBA 105

NBA's JaVale McGee was the Best Player of the game with a total of 25 points. Here's how the NBA players scored during the game:

JaVale McGee 25 points
Kevin Durant 22 pts
Derrick Williams 19 pts
Tyreke Evans 17 pts
James Harden 16 pts
Kobe Bryant 12 pts
Chris Paul 11 pts
Derrick Rose 9 pts
Derek Fisher 0 pt

The Filipino ballers did their best, but not enough to beat the NBA All-Stars. Arwind Santos also scored 25 big points, just like McGee, but no other PBA players scored as big as his.

Arwind Santos 25 points
Alex Cabagnot 9 pts
Marc Pingris 9 pts
Rabeh Al-Hussaini 8 pts
Solomon Mercado 8 pts
Gary David 8 pts
Gabe Norwood 7 pts
Ryan Reyes 6 pts
Sonny Thos 4 pts
Jason Castro 4 pts
Mark Caguioa 4 pts
Danny Seigle 4 pts
JC Intal 4 pts
Larry Fonacier 3 pts
LA Tenorio 2 pts
James Yap 0 pt

Watch a video of the NBA-PBA game (2nd half highlights, video courtesy of LakersPortal):


The NBA team will have one more game tomorrow, July 24, 1 PM, but this time they will be facing the Smart Gilas Pilipinas national team.


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