Iced Water Ballin

This first piece is something I've been planning to write about for years. This is part of a line of articles I will make, which are analysis' of leagues from around the world, excluding the NBA. I feel the world of basketball outside the NBA is extremely underappreciated. Yes, there is no doubt that the NBA is the best league in the world, but it is far from the only good league. Every respective league has its pros and cons, and that's what I want to share with the world. I am no expert on global leagues, and like most casual basketball fans, I only know my fair share of the NBA, and the national league local to you. Though I will dive into it with good old research.  What better league to analyze other than the NBA, than the PBA or Philippine Basketball Association, the main and most popular, but the not only league in the Philippines, my home country. Though to be honest, though I grew up here, I've always been watching the NBA growing up, which means I know very li...

Being in the Philippines, you know without a doubt that basketball is in our veins. From full-packed arenas to watch UAAP, NCAA or PBA games, to pick-up basketball on the side of the road, stopping the game every time a car has to pass. There is no doubt this is the number one sport in the Philippines. We are not the best nation in terms of basketball skill, although we are definitely one of the most passionate, which I believe with drive us to be one of the best in Asia. Growing up in a Spanish family in the Philippines, basketball was not my first sport. Actually, most of my life I was taught to play football, later on switching to baseball and then basketball. My family being huge in sports in general though, we would play all sorts of sports, so it was not as late as you might think. I did start taking basketball seriously in terms of playing pretty late, probably around third year high-school, largely because of my late but dramatic growth spert, from about 5'7 to 6'1 ...