PBA Video

It occurred to me that several readers of this blog have never seen a moment of PBA basketball, and it's time for me to change that. Unfortunately, I had my Eureka moment while watching a game between the Purefoods Tender Juicy Giants and the Welcoat Dragons -- a half-decent team and an awful one, respectively. In the NBA, this match-up would be equivalent to something along the lines of the Seattle Supersonics versus the Memphis Grizzlies, with a little more star power. That power comes from Purefoods guard James Yap, the PBA's reigning MVP, who is also the reigning husband of Kris Aquino (former President Corazon Aquino's daughter, actress, television host and product endorser extraordinaire), the country's most famous personality along with Manny Pacquiao. James and Kris had a well-publicized spat earlier this year, when a receptionist at a skin clinic revealed that when James went to the salon for his facials, it may have had a double-meaning. But Kris and James settled it in the best possible way -- on a nationally televised interview -- and are now happily raising their absurdly named newborn son, Baby James Yap. Yap scores a couple buckets during this sequence. Welcoat has Alex Compton, an American-born, honorary Filipino who I wrote about for the Madison, Wisc., Isthmus. The PBA playoffs are about to begin, so I'll do my best to film some more interesting action, but for now, this is all you get.