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Barangay Ginebra fans have spoken. They want no less than Eat Bulaga’s emerging star Yaya Dub (Maine Mendoza in real life) to be the team’s muse for the opening of the PBA’s 41st season this October.

Social media accounts of Ginebra fans have been flooded by requests to make Yaya Dub the Kings’ muse ever since her onscreen love team with Alden Richards in the ‘Kalyeserye’ of the country’s longest-running noontime show rose to phenomenal heights.

After his performance at the 2015 Adidas Global Nations camp (WATCH KOBE PARAS HIGHLIGHT VIDEOS HERE), Kobe Paras captured the eye of a NBA scouting website as one of the top wing prospects for high school classes 2016 and 2017.

Mike Schmitz, a video scout for Draft Express, included the 17-year-old Filipino cager as one of the standouts during the training camp.

Marcus Douthit will no longer be part of the Philippine national men’s basketball program.

Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas executive director Sonny Barrios confirmed to InterAksyon in a text message that the 6-foot-10 naturalized player, who had represented the Philippines several times over the past four years, will not have his contract renewed once it expires in September.

Gilas Pilipinas open its campaign in the 2015 FIBA Asia Championship in taking on Palestine at 11:45 a.m. on September 23 at the Changsha Social World College Gymnasium in Changsha, China.

The Nationals, in a light preliminary-round bracket, next play Hong Kong at 9:30 a.m. the following day, then Kuwait at 4:45 p.m. on Sept. 25.

MUST WATCH VIDEOS: Kobe Paras at adidas Global Nations 2015 Camp. Watch as Kobe Paras dunks over Edrice Abenayo and Billy Preston at adidas Global Nations 2015 camp.

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Moala Tautuaa, expected to be the No. 1 overall pick in the 2015 PBA Rookie Draft, may not be eligible to play for the Philippine national men’s basketball team in the upcoming FIBA Asia Championship next month but there are plans in the works for the Fil-Tongan to participate with the national team in the future.

Tab Baldwin disclosed the news to sportswriters on Tuesday right after the Gilas Pilipinas training pool’s practice at the Meralco gym.