Quick,
name one Filipino adult who has never set foot on a basketball court in his
entire life. Impossible,
isn’t it?
For
a game that favors relatively tall people, it’s rather impressive how
basketball has permeated Filipino culture. To this day, it is the nation’s most
popular sport. Here, the passion is so great that you’d see people play it
while wearing slippers, sandals, or sometimes, even barefoot. But nothing
reinstates this fact better than the presence of basketball hoops everywhere—on
the sides of buildings, in front of sari-sari stores, even in the middle of the
street.
