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GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS HEADED TO NBA FINALS; MANNY PACQUIAO HEADED TO THE WARRIORS

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Manny Pacquiao in practice session with the Golden State Warrior in San Francisco last year
Manny Pacquiao in practice session with the Golden State Warriors in San Francisco last year

SAN FRANCISCO, California (The Adobo Chronicles) – For the first time in 40 years, the Golden State Warriors are headed to the NBA finals, after defeating the Houston Rockets, 104-90, at last night’s Western Conference Championship series.

The California team faces the Cleveland Cavaliers in a best-of-7 series finals starting June 4 at Golden State’s Oracle Arena.

The Warriors took the occasion of their victory to announce that Manny Pacquiao will be drafted in the fall, ending months of speculation about the champion Filipino boxer joining the California NBA team.

Pacquiao was seen in practice sessions with the Warriors late last year in San Francisco.

Pacquiao, aside from being a boxer and elected congressman in the Philippines, is a playing coach of the Kia Carnival, a professional team in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).

Sources close to Pacquiao said that the Filipino boxer has done a lot of soul searching after his welterweight loss to Floyd Mayweather, and is now open to retiring from boxing.  Pacquiao is also eyeing the presidency of the Philippines, but at age 36, is disqualified from running as a candidate in 2016.

The Warriors said that they could have drafted Pacquiao earlier but his recent surgery due to a shoulder injury  has prevented the boxer from the team’s training sessions.

Pacquiao is turning out to be a man for all seasons and all major sports.

 

Entertainment, Government, International

HUGE WELCOME, TICKER TAPE PARADE AND TAX RECEIPT AWAIT “ASIA’S GOT TALENT” GRAND WINNERS

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imageMANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles) – El Gamma Penumbra, the Filipino shadow performing group that was the grand winner in the first season of “Asia’s Got Talent” will be treated to a huge welcome by their fans and supporters when they return to Manila from Singapore.

A motorcade will take them from the Ninoy Aquino International Airport to Malacañang Palace where they will be personally greeted by President NoyNoy Aquino. The motorcade will pass through main thoroughfares in Makati where ticker tapes  and confetti will be showered from the city’s tall buiildings.

The group will also be personally met at the airport’s VIP lounge by Bureau of Internal Revenue Commissioner Kim Henares who will have a tax receipt booklet in hand as she collects up to 30% of the group’s  $100,000 (4.4 Million pesos) prize money.

Henares
Henares

Henares is known to be a tough tax woman, always ready to collect the government’s share of international prize winnings by Filipino celebrities, not the least of whom is Manny Pacquiao.

Pacquiao’s prize money from his May 2nd fight with Floyd Mayweather is estimated at $150 Million.  That’s a whopping 6.6 BILLION pesos.

It is therefore not suprising that President Aquino is claiming that the Philippines is no longer the “sick man” of Asia, thanks to all that tax revenue.

Health & Medicine, International, Law Enforcement, Technology

NEW ALLEGATION: DID MAYWEATHER TAKE BANNED SUBSTANCE IN HIS LOCKER ROOM BEFORE FIGHT WITH PACQUIAO?

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Mayweather, left, with Bieber
Mayweather, left, with Bieber

LAS VEGAS, Nevada (The Adobo Chronicles) – There is no stopping the controversies following the May 2 ‘Fight of the Century’ between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather.

A new, serious allegation has just surfaced: that Mayweather took prohibited drugs in his locker room at MGM Grand just before he entered the ring to face the Filipino boxer.

According to a news report, multiple bottles of the pill Muscle Rev were found in Mayweather’s locker room.

While the steroid-like pill is legal, many sports federations, including the World Boxing Association, have banned its use by their athletes.

If proven, the allegation could overturn the judges’ unanimous decision declaring Mayweather the winner of the controversial fight.

But Mayweather fans can breathe a huge sigh of relief.

Singer Justin Bieber has come forward to announce that those pill bottles were his, not Mayweather’s.

Bieber is a known fanatic of Mayweather, always standing beside the boxer  at ringside and in the locker room.