For only the third time in the history of the PBA’s Philippines Cup, the playoff finals were totally dominated by one team.
(Discuss the PBA, Philippines Basketball)
The Purefoods Tender Juicy Giant, owned by the San Miguel-Purefoods Company, Inc., left Alaska Aces winless in the series and claimed the trophy in the fourth game played on Wednesday.
The successors [...]

Game four of the playoff semi-finals of PBA’s Philippine Cup (actually a championship with just Filipino players, part of a two-competition league) played yesterday lasted only less than a period.
(Discuss Talk N’ Text’s Playoff Walkout)
The reason was simple: one of the teams, Talk ‘N Text Tropang Texters, abandoned the game.
Everything started with a flagrant foul [...]

Two smaller professional basketball leagues in the Philippines, the PBL and Liga Philippines, are in talks to combine their leagues according to reports.
(Talk the league mergers and Philippines Basketball in our forum)
“We’re looking at the relevance of the merger in the Philippine basketball landscape,” said PBL commissioner Chino Trinidad. “If the two leagues become one, will [...]

At 5-6 and 135lbs, Manny Pacquiao isn’t an intimidating figure initially, but the diminuative Filipino may be, pound-for-pound, the toughest boxer on the face of the planet.
Slam Magazine recently interviewed the street-tough fighter about his other passion- basketball. Here’s an excerpt of the interview:
SLAM: Tell us how you got into basketball
Pacquaio: It’s a very popular [...]

In a game between Smart Gilas and Burger King of the Philippines Basketball Association, one of the Burger King players goes after a fan in the stands and begins to kick and punch the fan.
(Discuss Philippines Basketball in our forum)

Burger King player Wynne Arboleda was playing dirty all game long before attacking Gilas fan Alain [...]

It is now more than two days since massive flooding swept the Philippines.
Typhoon Ondoy hit Manila, the nation’s capital and neighboring provinces, leaving a total of 140 dead victims and displacing ~435 000 more.
Major networks reported that a month’s worth of rain fell in just six hours, flooding 80% of the capital Manila which is still [...]

If  basketball popularity coincided with the average height of the country’s population, then Scandinavia should have many more professional basketball players.
At least according to some data that was compiled by one of our forum members, tpraseri (see Average Height by Country thread).
Tpraseri compiled data from across the internet, listed out the average heights of 82 [...]