FIBA: SBP ready to get to work for World Cup hosting

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MANILA, Philippines -- Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas will hit the ground running as it prepares for the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup, which the Philippines will co-host with Indonesia and Japan.

SBP chairman emeritus Manny V. Pangilinan and president Al Panlilio arrived in Manila on Tuesday morning with the FIBA flag, which was handed over to them by Yao Ming of the Chinese Basketball Association in Beijing last Sunday evening."The hard work start that Sunday night, when China's hosting rights, their hosting of the event finished. Therefore, the work starts," Pangilinan said in a brief press conference at the Manila Life Cafe in NAIA Terminal 3.

According to Panlilio, they will hold an alignment meeting with FIBA, Japan and Indonesia in November, to get the ball rolling. SBP sent a team to China to observe its hosting of the World Cup, and they learned plenty of lessons from the event -- particularly from a logistics standpoint. There were eight host cities in China, and travel became an issue when teams had to move from one city to the next.

 

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