{"id":226438,"date":"2019-08-11T03:23:12","date_gmt":"2019-08-11T07:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=226438"},"modified":"2019-08-11T03:23:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-11T07:23:12","slug":"balanga-chooks-taps-lamar-roberson-as-pasaol-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/08\/11\/balanga-chooks-taps-lamar-roberson-as-pasaol-replacement\/","title":{"rendered":"Balanga Chooks taps Lamar Roberson as Pasaol replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_226440\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-226440\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/0-02-08-e34ec5ddef92264241e44164f31f21476eea71d132d4a7196a9a9b2694a5388f5cd6998c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-226440\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/0-02-08-e34ec5ddef92264241e44164f31f21476eea71d132d4a7196a9a9b2694a5388f5cd6998c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/0-02-08-e34ec5ddef92264241e44164f31f21476eea71d132d4a7196a9a9b2694a5388f5cd6998c.jpg 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/0-02-08-e34ec5ddef92264241e44164f31f21476eea71d132d4a7196a9a9b2694a5388f5cd6998c-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-226440\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lamar Roberson (Photo courtesy of HaylettSports website via PNA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Balanga Chooks will parade a second American reinforcement for the FIBA 3&#215;3 Bucharest Challenger to fill in the void left by Alvin Pasaol.<\/p>\n<p>Balanga acquired the services of six-foot-eight forward Lamar Roberson to backstop fellow foreign player Travis Franklin and locals Karl Dehesa and Chris de Chavez for the qualifier to the FIBA 3&#215;3 World Tour Debrecen Masters.<\/p>\n<p>Roberson is not new to European basketball as he already had five-on-five basketball stints in Slovakia, Switzerland, Germany, and Luxembourg after going undrafted in the 2010 NBA Draft.<\/p>\n<p>The development assured that Balanga will be complete come the Bucharest Challenger.<\/p>\n<p>Roberson is actually Franklin\u2019s childhood friend, and they even played together in college at Louisiana-Lafayette.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He will be a great replacement. I&#8217;m excited to see what he can do. It will be fun. We&#8217;re ready to rock and roll,&#8221; said Franklin, who helped make the acquisition possible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Malaking bagay na<\/em>\u00a0Travis has played with Lamar.\u00a0<em>Yung<\/em>\u00a0skills\u00a0<em>ni<\/em>\u00a0Lamar is complementary\u00a0<em>sa mga<\/em>\u00a0players\u00a0<em>natin<\/em>\u00a0that will go to Romania (It\u2019s a huge thing that Travis has played with Lamar, whose skills complement those of our players who will go to Romania),&#8221; added Chooks-to-Go Pilipinas 3&#215;3 league commissioner Eric Altamirano.<\/p>\n<p>Balanga will go through a qualifying draw to get the right to enter the main tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Balanga will battle Colorado City at 3:20 p.m. Saturday before taking on Kochenevo at 4:40 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The top team in the draw will join the New York Harlem and Edmonton in Pool D.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 The Balanga Chooks will parade a second American reinforcement for the FIBA 3&#215;3 Bucharest Challenger to fill in the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":226440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","mauthors-ivan-stewart-saldajeno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226438","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226441,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226438\/revisions\/226441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}