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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]
The Philippines national basketball team is led by head coach Tim Cone. Cone was made permanent head coach in January 2024, after being named interim coach for the 2022 Asian Games in September 2024 following the resignation of Chot Reyes after the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup .
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.
Philippine Arena, Bocaue, Philippines: FIBA World Cup: August 27 Angola: L 70–80 Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City, Philippines: FIBA World Cup: August 29 Italy: L 83–90 Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City, Philippines: FIBA World Cup: August 31 South Sudan: L 68–87 Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City, Philippines: FIBA World Cup: September 2 China: W 96 ...
In February 2023, the Philippines took part in the final window of the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup Asian qualifiers. [3] The national team ended their participation in the qualifiers with a lost to Jordan. [4] As one of the hosts of the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup, the Philippines were already qualified regardless of their performance.
The first training camp of the Philippine national team commenced at the Meralco Gym in Pasig on June 7, 2023. [1] They would hold a training camp in Estonia, playing games against the junior Estonia team [10] [11] as well as against Finland. [12] In Lithuania, Philippines won two matches against the under-20 Ukrainian team. [13]
The win sent the team to the finals and guaranteed qualification to the FIBA Basketball World Cup (new name of the FIBA World Championship) for the first time since 1978. The Philippines, appearing in the first FIBA Asia Championship final since the introduction of a championship game in 1987, lost by 14 points against undefeated Iran in the ...
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]