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JJ Falls Short In Chinese Basketball Finals

CHINA – Another season comes to an end with a tough loss in the championship series for Jonquel Jones.

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6 months ago

April 23, 2024

10th Year Seniors

CHINA – Another season comes to an end with a tough loss in the championship series for Jonquel Jones.

Jones and Inner Mongolia lost the fifth and deciding game of the Women’s Chinese Basketball Association final to Sichuan 83-78.

She finished with 23 points and 12 rebounds in the clinching game.

Throughout the series she averaged 30 points and 11 rebounds per game but Inner Mongolia blew a 2-1 series lead in the final two games.

Including the WCBA, the last three seasons for Jones have ended in losses in the championship final.

In the 2022 WNBA finals, jones and the Connecticut sun lost to the Las Vegas Aces, and she again lost to the Aces with her current team, the New York Liberty in 2023.

Attention now quickly shifts to the liberty and their hope to return to the WNBA finals.

New York opens their season May 14 on the road against the Washington Mystics in Washington, D.C.

NBA

The playoff woes continued on the road for Buddy Hield and the Philadelphia 76ers.

Hield played sparingly off the bench with just 2 points in 15 minutes of the 76ers 104-101 loss to the New York Knicks Monday night in Madison Square Garden in New York.

Philadelphia squandered a five-point lead with 30 seconds left in the fourth quarter after Jalen Brunson and Donte Divencenzio made a pair of threes.

The 8-0 run gave the Knicks a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven series.

Game three is Thursday in Philadelphia.

Minor League Baseball

Bj Murray and Chavez Young both went yard to highlight the last few games for Bahamians in AAA baseball.

Murray hit his second home run as a member of the Iowa Cubs on April 19 to highlight his six-game stretch in a productive series against the Louisville Bats.

Against the Bats, Murray hit 8-17, with six RBI and scored 5 runs. Three of those games were also multi-hit games.

After a slow start to the season, that streak brought his season average up to .246 with 13 RBI.

The Cubs currently lead the International League West at 13-8.

Young hit his first home run as a member of the Nashville Sounds in a 7-3 win over the Omaha Storm Chasers.

Young’s solo home run came in the bottom of the third inning and the sounds never trailed in the win.

The Milwaukee Brewers prospect is hitting .238 with six RBI and four stolen bases on the season.

Nashville is currently 11-10 tied for fourth in the International League West.

It is expected to be a busy summer ahead for the Bahamas Basketball Federation’s junior national girls program.

The search continues for the top players in the country.

Basketball

Junior Girls Head Coach Anton Francis hosted his first tryouts in Grand Bahama earlier this month and the venue shifted to New Providence over the weekend.

The team will compete in the 2024 Centrobasket under 15 women’s championship, July 24-28 in David, Panama.

The three best teams in the competition will qualify for the FIBA U16 Women’s Americup in 2025.