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 [...]

From the crew @ Interbasket (and Pau Gasol), we wish you a very Merry Christmas, a super Hannukkah; a happy holidays.  Whatever you you do, however you are celebrating, whoever you are with, wherever you are in the world – we sincerely hope you have a safe and happy holiday season.
Pau Gasol walks up the court [...]

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 [...]

Iran successfully defended their Asia Champions crown last night, dropping favored-China in a laughable 70-52 win.
Led by Memphis Grizzly center Hamed Haddadi’s 19 points and 17 rebounds, Iran dominated the Chinese in the first two quarters; outscoring their opponents by 11 in the first quarter and by six in the second.
The Iranians took a 17-point [...]

Even with the likelihood that they’ll head home without a win, the Sri Lankan Natonal Basketball Team is just happy to be in Tianjin, China for the Asia Basketball Championships.
A day before the tournament began on August 6th, Sri Lanka almost had to pull out because they needed financial assistance for the team’s airfare.
According to the [...]