{"id":143258,"date":"2018-01-02T21:04:37","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T02:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=143258"},"modified":"2018-01-02T21:04:37","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T02:04:37","slug":"alab-hosts-malaysia-in-first-abl-game-for-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/02\/alab-hosts-malaysia-in-first-abl-game-for-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Alab hosts Malaysia in first ABL game for 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_143290\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-143290\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/22687521_1896081617386545_7873093311916884035_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-143290\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/22687521_1896081617386545_7873093311916884035_n.jpg\" alt=\"In the lone game scheduled on Wednesday night, Alab, entering the contest at 1-3 in the standings, will once again welcome the Dragons, this time at the FilOil Flying V Centre in San Juan City at 8 p.m. (Photo: Alab Pilipinas\/Facebook)\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/22687521_1896081617386545_7873093311916884035_n.jpg 700w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/22687521_1896081617386545_7873093311916884035_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/22687521_1896081617386545_7873093311916884035_n-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-143290\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the lone game scheduled on Wednesday night, Alab, entering the contest at 1-3 in the standings, will once again welcome the Dragons, this time at the FilOil Flying V Centre in San Juan City at 8 p.m. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AlabPilipinasOfficial\/photos\/a.1680892885572087.1073741825.1680871328907576\/1896081617386545\/?type=1&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\">Photo: Alab Pilipinas\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong> \u2014 Alab Pilipinas looks to turn the tides as a new year ushers in as it hosts Malaysia in the first ABL game for 2018.<\/p>\n<p>In the lone game scheduled on Wednesday night, Alab, entering the contest at 1-3 in the standings, will once again welcome the Dragons, this time at the FilOil Flying V Centre in San Juan City at 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>In their last meeting in Sta. Rosa City last year, Malaysia rode on Xavier Alexander&#8217;s triple-double to repulse Alab as world imports Reggie Okosa and Ivan Johnson had relatively slow starts for the home side.<\/p>\n<p>Things will become different this time as Alab brings in Renaldo Balkman and Justin Brownlee to replace Okosa and Johnson as its world imports.<\/p>\n<p>The Dragons, however, also made a tweak to their lineup, activating Fil-Am gunner Joshua Munzon as their ASEAN heritage import, replacing Reil Cervantes.\u00a0<strong><em>(PNA)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2014 Alab Pilipinas looks to turn the tides as a new year ushers in as it hosts Malaysia in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":143290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[41431,33986,851],"class_list":["post-143258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-abl-game","tag-alab-pilipinas","tag-malaysia","mauthors-ivan-stewart-saldajeno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}