The national basketball team of the Philippines is one of the best-performing Asian1954 FIBA World Championship for men and a fifth-place finish in the 1936 Summer Olympics, the two best finishes of any Asian team in the history of the top two international basketball tournaments. Its national basketball federation is the BAP-Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (SBP). teams in international tournaments, winning a bronze medal in the
The current national team, nicknamed "Team Pilipinas" (Team Philippines), is sponsored by the San Miguel Corporation, the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company, the Philippine Basketball Association, and the Philippine Basketball League. The coach of the team is Vincent "Chot" Reyes.
Aside from the bronze medal at the World Championships and the fifth-place Olympic finish, the Philippines has won five FIBA Asian Championships for Men, four Asian Games Men's BasketballSoutheast Asian Games and at the Southeast Asia Basketball Association. The country has also participated in four FIBA World Championships and seven Olympic Basketball Tournaments. gold medals and a consistent winner at the
HISTORY
The Philippine national team is one of the most dominant basketball teams in Asia since the 1920s. The Philippines dominated the Far Eastern Games and the Southeast Asian Games but only partially dominate the Asian Games and FIBA Asia Championship with rivals like Israel, South Korea, Lebanon, Japan and especially China. In the 1950s-1960s, the Philippines was among the best in the world, producing world-class players like Carlos Loyzaga, Lauro Mumar, Mariano Tolentino and Edgardo Ocampo. Loyzaga was even a part of the 1954 FIBA World Championship Mythical Team selection, where the Philippines won the Bronze medal.
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| Bronze | 1954 Rio de Janiero | Team competition |
| FIBA Asia Championship | ||
| Gold | 1960 Manila | Team competition |
| Gold | 1963 Taipei | Team competition |
| Gold | 1967 Seoul | Team competition |
| Gold | 1973 Manila | Team competition |
| Gold | 1986 Kuala Lumpur | Team competition |
| Silver | 1965 Kuala Lumpur | Team competition |
| Silver | 1971 Tokyo | Team competition |
| Bronze | 1969 Bangkok | Team competition |
After 1975, the Philippines only managed to win the 1986 Asian Basketball Confederation (the national team qualified to the 1986 FIBA World Championship in Spain but the team disbanded and failed to participate due to the political crisis in the Philippines) and a bronze medal in the 1986 Asian Games. Both teams were bannered by future PBA stars Allan Caidic, Samboy LimHector Calma. In 1990, the Philippines sent and all-pro national team, coached by Robert Jaworski, to regain the country's basketball supremacy in the Asian Games but the team lost in the final against China and settled for a silver medal. The team includes 1990 PBA Most Valuable Player Allan Caidic, Alvin Patrimonio and Samboy Lim (who was selected for the Asian Games Mythical Team selection). and
In 1998, the PBA formed the celebrated Philippine Centennial Team that captured the 21st William Jones Cup championship but finished with the bronze medal in the Asian Games. While in 1994 and 2002, the PBA-backed national team only managed fourth placed finishes.
FIBA suspensions
1963
In 1963, FIBA suspended the Philippines for its failure to stage the 1963 FIBA World Championship after President Diosdado Macapagal refused to allow players from Yugoslavia and other communist countries to enter the country. Later, the Philippines, despite being the Asian champion, was forced to play in a pre-Olympic tournament in order to qualify in the 1964 Summer Olympics.
2001
The Basketball Association of the Philippines leadership crisis worsened after a lengthy feud between the group of Graham Lim and Tiny Literal and the group of Freddie Jalasco and Lito Puyat which resulted in FIBA's suspension of the basketball NSA.
However, a few months after, FIBA stepped-in and ordered an election that resulted in Literal's victory as the President of the BAP. The suspension was quickly lifted and the Philippines was able to compete in the Southeast Asian Games in Malaysia.[1]
2005-2007
The Philippines was suspended by the International Basketball Federation on July 2005 after a long standing feud between the Philippine Olympic Committee and the BAP.
The story began on April 10, 2005, when the BAP-sponsored Cebuana-Lhuillier Philippine National team (composed of little-known amateur players) lost to a lowly Parañaque Jets team (made up of showbiz personalities) in an NBC Preseason tournament at the Rizal Memorial Coliseum. After hearing the news, POC President Jose "Peping" Cojuangco called for improvements on the national team, most notably, the sending of a new team made up of professionals from the Philippine Basketball Association.
While both parties, with the involvement of the Philippine Basketball Association, the Philippine Basketball League, the UAAP and the NCAA, reportedly agreed on an agreement on the formation of a new national team, things soon returned to the usual verbal war. The POC, through a vote, first suspended, then in a later meeting, expelled the BAP as the official National Sports Association (NSA) member and installed a new member in the Philippine Basketball Federation. The BAP, under new President Joey Lina, said that the expulsion was unconstitutional in the by-laws of the POC.
The situation worsened when both parties still could not agree on who will banner the national team for the Southeast Asian Basketball Association tournament, a qualifier for the FIBA-Asia tournament in Doha, Qatar. FIBA Secretary-General Patrick Baumann, then handed the suspension of the RP team from any FIBA-sanctioned tournament.
In hopes of securing a long-term solution, FIBA, in a memorandum, ordered the PBA, PBL, UAAP, NCAA and Joey Lina (as a person or in Lina's claim, as a representative of the BAP) to form a new constitution or a formation of a new basketball body.
By March 2006, four stakeholders have signed into the propose new basketball body, which later named as Pilipinas Basketball. Lina, however, has refused to sign on the memorandum, citing unbalanced factors that was put in the draft for a new body. After the four stakeholders met with Baumann in South Korea, the suspension was not even lifted nor was the draft for a new body was even accepted since Lina has not signed it.
However, in a significant move by both Pilipinas Basketball and the BAP at the FIBA Congress in Japan, both parties signed an agreement that will pave the way for the formation of a new cage body on or before September 30. The deadline lapsed and no significant moves had been made until February 5, 2007.
After several meetings between FIBA Secretary-General Patrick Baumann, PB, and BAP officials in Geneva and Bangkok, a Unity Congress was held in which BAP, PB and Baumann attended. The BAP and PB agreed to merge to create the BAP-Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (SBP) as the new national federation. The Philippine Olympic Committee recognized the group as the new national governing body for basketball, after which the FIBA finally lifted the almost two-year-old suspension it imposed upon the country.
ROSTER
Philippines roster at the FIBA Asia Championship 2007:
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Philippines roster at the Southeast Asian Games 2007:
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COMPETITIONS
Performance at Asian Games
| Year | Position | Tournament | Host |
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| 1950 | 1  | 1951 Asian Games | India |
| 1954 | 1 | 1954 Asian Games | Philippines |
| 1958 | 1 | 1958 Asian Games | Japan |
| 1964 | 1 | 1962 Asian Games | Indonesia |
| 1966 | 6 | 1966 Asian Games | Thailand |
| 1970 | 5 | 1970 Asian Games | Thailand |
| 1974 | 4 | 1974 Asian Games | Iran |
| 1978 | 5 | 1978 Asian Games | Thailand |
| 1982 | 4 | 1982 Asian Games | India |
| 1986 | 3  | 1986 Asian Games | South Korea |
| 1990 | 2  | 1990 Asian Games | China |
| 1994 | 4 | 1994 Asian Games | Japan |
| 1998 | 3 | 1998 Asian Games | Thailand |
| 2002 | 4 | 2002 Asian Games | South Korea |
| 2006 | - | 2006 Asian Games | Qatar |
| 2010 | 2010 Asian Games | China |
Performence at Summer Olympics
| Year | Position | Tournament | Host |
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| 1936 | 5 | Basketball at the 1936 Summer Olympics | Germany |
| 1948 | 12 | Basketball at the 1948 Summer Olympics | Great Britain |
| 1952 | 9 | Basketball at the 1952 Summer Olympics | Finland |
| 1956 | 7 | Basketball at the 1956 Summer Olympics | Australia |
| 1960 | 11 | Basketball at the 1960 Summer Olympics | Italy |
| 1964 | - | Basketball at the 1964 Summer Olympics | Japan |
| 1968 | 13 | Basketball at the 1968 Summer Olympics | Mexico |
| 1972 | 13 | Basketball at the 1972 Summer Olympics | Germany |
| 1976 | - | Basketball at the 1976 Summer Olympics | Canada |
| 1980 | - | Basketball at the 1980 Summer Olympics | Soviet Union |
| 1984 | - | Basketball at the 1984 Summer Olympics | USA |
| 1988 | - | Basketball at the 1988 Summer Olympics | Korea |
| 1992 | - | Basketball at the 1992 Summer Olympics | Spain |
| 1996 | - | Basketball at the 1996 Summer Olympics | USA |
| 2000 | - | Basketball at the 2000 Summer Olympics | Australia |
| 2004 | - | Basketball at the 2004 Summer Olympics | Greece |
| 2008 | - | Basketball at the 2008 Summer Olympics | China |
Performence at Southeast Asian tournaments
| Year | Position | Tournament | Host |
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| 1998 | 1 | Southeast Asian tournaments 1998 | Philippines |
| 1999 | 1 | Southeast Asian tournaments 1999 | Philippines |
| 2001 | 1 | Southeast Asian tournaments 2001 | Philippines |
| 2003 | 1 | Southeast Asian tournaments 2003 | Malaysia |
| 2005 | * | Southeast Asian tournaments 2005 | Malaysia |
| 2007 | 1 | Southeast Asian tournaments 2007 | Thailand |
2005: Philippine Team did not participate due to susupension by the FIBA
Performance at World Championship
| Year | Position | Tournament | Host |
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| 1950 | - | 1950 FIBA World Championship | Argentina |
| 1954 | 3 | 1954 FIBA World Championship | Brazil |
| 1959 | 8 | 1959 FIBA World Championship | Chile |
| 1963 | - | 1963 FIBA World Championship | Brazil |
| 1967 | - | 1967 FIBA World Championship | Uruguay |
| 1970 | - | 1970 FIBA World Championship | Yugoslavia |
| 1974 | 13 | 1974 FIBA World Championship | Puerto Rico |
| 1978 | 8 | 1978 FIBA World Championship | Philippines |
| 1982 | - | 1982 FIBA World Championship | Colombia |
| 1986 | - | 1986 FIBA World Championship | Spain |
| 1990 | - | 1990 FIBA World Championship | Argentina |
| 1994 | - | 1994 FIBA World Championship | Canada |
| 1998 | - | 1998 FIBA World Championship | Greece |
| 2002 | - | 2002 FIBA World Championship | USA |
| 2006 | - | 2006 FIBA World Championship | Japan |
World tournaments
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Asian tournaments
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Southeast Asian tournaments
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- Pedro Villanueva (1930)
- Alfredo del Rosario (1934)
- Dionisio Calvo (1936, 1948, 1952)
- Felicisimo Fajardo (1952-1966)
- Herminio Silva (1954)
- Leo Prieto (1956)
- Valentin "Tito" Eduque (1958, 1973-1974)
- Virgilio "Baby" Dalupan (1959, 1970)
- Arturo Rius (1960)
- Enrique Crame (1962)
- Carlos Loyzaga (1967-1968)
- Lauro Mumar (1969)
- Ignacio Ramos (1971-1972)
- Nicanor Jorge (1978)
- Ron Jacobs (1981-1986)
- Joe Lipa (1986-2000)
- Robert Jaworski (1990)
- Norman Black (1994, 2006)
- Tim Cone (1998)
- Jong Uichico (2002)
- Vincent "Chot" Reyes (2005-present)
(Past and Present)
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Johnny Abarrientos: Philippine basketball's and Asia's best point guard of the 1990s. Abarrientos played for the Philippines in the 1991 Southeast Asian Games and the 1994 Asian Games. He was later selected to play for the Philippine Centennial Team to represent the country in the 1998 Asian Games and the 21st William Jones Cup. Abarrientos was named Most Valuable Player in an exhibition game against the FIBA Asia All-Stars team led by compatriot Romel Adducul.
Allan Caidic: Asia's most feared three-point shooter and arguably one of the greatest players ever to play for the Philippines internationally. He is a four-time veteran of the Asian Games (1986, 1990, 1994, 1998) and a two-time William Jones Cup champion (1985, 1998). Early in his career, Caidic played a major role for the Philippines in capturing the 1985 Southeast Asian Games and the 1985-1986 FIBA Asia Championship. In 1990, he and Samboy Lim were named at the Asian Games Mythical Five Selection after leading the Philippines to a silver medal finished. In 1994, he was the Asian Games basketball tournament's leading scorer and was named, for the second time, to the all-tournament Mythical Five selection. In 1998, he represented the country for the final time with the celebrated Philippine Centennial Team.
Robert Jaworski: The world's oldest professional basketball player and arguably the Philippines' most popular basketball player of all time. He represented the country in numerous international tournaments and is one of the last surviving Filipino basketball players to play in the FIBA World Championship and the Summer Olympics.
Samboy Lim: One of the best players ever to play for the Philippine national team. A prolific scorer, he represented the Philippines in the 1982 Asian Youth Championship and in the 1985-1986 FIBA Asia Championship. He was later named alongside Allan Caidic into the 1990 Asian Games Mythical Five selection after leading the national team to the finals.
Carlos Loyzaga: Probably the greatest Filipino international basketball player of all time. He led the Philippines to four consecutive Asian Games gold medals and three Asian championship titles. His biggest achievement was leading the country to a third place finish and the bronze medal in the 1954 FIBA World Championship, the best finish by an Asian country in the history of the quadrennial tournament. He was later named into the all-tournament Mythical Five selection after finishing third leading scorer of that year's tournament. In 1960, he and Carlos Badion were named at the Asian Basketball Confederation Mythical Five Selection after leading the Philippines to the first ever Asian championship crown.
Ambrosio Padilla: One of the greatest Filipino basketball players of the pre-World War II era. He played for the Philippines in the Far Eastern Games before leading the country to a fifth place finish in the 1936 Summer Olympics, the best finish by an Asian country in the history of the Summer Olympics men's basketball tournament.
Luis "Lou" Salvador: One of the most prolific offensive players in Philippine basketball history. Salvador played for the Philippines in several Far Eastern Games tournaments where, in 1923, he set an all-time record for the most points scored by a Filipino in a single international game with 116 points against China to lead the Philippines to the gold medal. That record remains unbroken to this day.
LATEST SCORES
Basketball at the 2007 Southeast Asian Games| December 13 3:00 p.m. THA | Philippines  | 94–53 |  Thailand | Keelapirom Stadium, Nakhon Ratchasima | NBN |
| December 12 5:00 p.m. THA | Philippines | 108–60 |  Malaysia | Keelapirom Stadium, Nakhon Ratchasima | NBN |
| December 9 3:00 p.m. THA | Philippines | 75–49 |  Indonesia | Keelapirom Stadium, Nakhon Ratchasima | NBN |
| December 7 3:00 p.m. THA | Philippines | 136–82 |  Cambodia | Keelapirom Stadium, Nakhon Ratchasima | NBN |
FIBA Asia Championship 2007
| August 4 11:15 AM JST | 9th place | Philippines | 78–76 |  China | Asty Tokushima, Tokushima | |
| Scoring by quarter: 19-22, 17-16, 23-23, 19-15 | ||||||
| August 2 9:00 AM JST | Consol. | Philippines | 89–58 |  Kuwait | Asty Tokushima, Tokushima | |
| Scoring by quarter: 23-10, 23-10, 27-27, 16-11 | ||||||
| August 1 9:00 AM JST | Consol. | Philippines | 104–69 |  India | Tokushima Municipal Gymnasium, Tokushima | |
| Scoring by quarter: 25-18, 22-23, 35-14, 22-14 | ||||||
| July 31 9:00 AM JST | Consol. | Philippines | 107–100 (OT) |  Syria | Asty Tokushima, Tokushima | |
| Scoring by quarter: 18-24, 17-14, 30-27, 24-24 OT: 18-11 | ||||||
| July 30 6:00 PM JST | Prelims. | Philippines | 76–84 |  Jordan | Asty Tokushima, Tokushima | RPN, BTV |
| Scoring by quarter: 18-13, 17-20, 16-21, 25-30 | ||||||
| July 29 6:00 PM JST | Prelims. | Philippines | 79–74 | China | Asty Tokushima, Tokushima | RPN, BTV |
| Scoring by quarter: 19-25, 19-24, 18-8, 23-17 | ||||||
| July 28 6:00 PM JST | Prelims. | Philippines | 69–75 |  Iran | Asty Tokushima, Tokushima | RPN, BTV |
| Scoring by quarter: 14-19, 11-11, 11-21, 33-24 | ||||||
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