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The Philippines national basketball team is led by head coach Tim Cone. Cone has been coach since September 2024. [1] The national team will finish their last two remaining games in the qualifiers of the 2025 FIBA Asia Cup which they already qualified for. [2] They will take part at the Doha International Cup in February 2025 in Doha, Qatar. [2]
Mall of Asia Arena, Pasay, Philippines: FIBA Asia Championship R2: August 7 Hong Kong: W 67–55 Mall of Asia Arena, Pasay, Philippines: FIBA Asia Championship R2: August 9 Kazakhstan: W 88–58 Mall of Asia Arena, Pasay, Philippines: FIBA Asia Championship QF: August 10 South Korea: W 86–79 Mall of Asia Arena, Pasay, Philippines: FIBA Asia ...
After World War II, its basketball tournament became the country's premier basketball league until 1975, when nine of its members broke away to form the very first professional basketball league in Asia, the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). Afterwards, it would continue as a farm league of sorts for the PBA until the league closed down ...
A 1936 founding member of FIBA Asia, Philippines is one of the oldest teams and has one of Asia's longest basketball traditions. The team won a bronze medal in the 1954 FIBA World Championship for men, the best finish by any team outside the Americas and Europe.
The team also participated at the 2021 King Abdullah Cup in Jordan as part of their preparations for the FIBA Asia Cup. [6] [7] However the FIBA Asia Cup was postponed by a year. Similarly the Philippines plans to field a basketball team at the 2021 Southeast Asian Games in Vietnam, but the multi-sporting event was likewise postponed to 2022. [8]
The PLDT HOME: The Last Home Stand was a charity basketball event in the Philippines, primarily sponsored by the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) and organized by East-West Private LLC, a US-based events organizing company, that featured the Philippine men's national basketball team (Gilas Pilipinas) together with the players from the National Basketball Association.
The Philippines national basketball team was led by head coach Chot Reyes in the early part of 2022 until the appointment of Nenad Vucinic in June.. The Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas announced Reyes' appointment as head coach of the team on January 31 following Tab Baldwin's departure shortly prior to the February 2022 window of the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualifiers.
The league held its opening ceremonies at the Philippine Arena and set an all-time Philippine basketball attendance record of 52,612. [11] This record was eventually broken during the Game 7 of the 2022–23 Commissioner's Cup Finals , contested between the Barangay Ginebra San Miguel and guest team Bay Area Dragons , which was also held in the ...