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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 .
The tournament will be co-hosted by the Philippines, Japan, and Indonesia from August 25 to September 10, 2023. This is the Philippines third straight appearance in the FIBA Basketball World Cup since its participation in the 2014 edition hosted in Spain.
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.
After the Philippines became a republic in 1946, the national team was simply referred to by the press as the "RP 5" or "RP team" ("RP" standing for "Republic of the Philippines"). When the Northern Cement basketball team represented the Philippines from 1983 to 1985, the team was referred to as the "NCC" team.
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]
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.
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 ...
The 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup was the 19th tournament of the FIBA Basketball World Cup for men's national basketball teams, held from 25 August to 10 September 2023. The tournament was the second to feature 32 teams and was hosted by multiple nations for the first time in its history—the Philippines, Japan, and Indonesia.