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One of the main reasons why some children stop playing Filipino games is because Western sports (e.g. basketball or volleyball) are featured in local barangays and in schools. With a lack of organized sports activities for Filipino street games, Filipino children may adapt to modernity by abandoning their childhood games.
The tradition of basketball in Filipinos help represent many regional, national and even religious affiliations. [6] Basketball has even been considered a "Filipino past-time", as that is the sport learned by most fathers in the Philippines and passed on the lifestyle to their Filipino American children.
Postcard of women playing basketball in Dagupan, 1910 The national team playing against China at the 1917 Far Eastern Games in Tokyo. Basketball was introduced in the Philippines during the American colonial period with the first American teachers teaching the sport along with baseball through the YMCA and the school system. [1]
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The country also has a women's basketball team which has competed at the FIBA Asia Women's Championship, as well as men youth team's and 3x3 national teams. The Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (Basketball Federation of the Philippines) is the national sport association of basketball in the Philippines.
Whether it's for their birthday, a game of Secret Santa or White Elephant at work, your anniversary (yeah, you married one), the holidays, or just because, the basketball lover is going to get gifted.
The Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas [1] (lit. ' Basketball Federation of the Philippines ') or the SBP is the national sport association for basketball in the Philippines, formed from the merging of the Basketball Association of the Philippines (BAP) and Pilipinas Basketball (PB).