Filipino hospitality: Pacquiao shows how it's done

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Over the course of the FIBA World Cup, Filipino boxing legend Emmanuel 'Manny' Pacquiao has met several international delegations to his home.

Several players and a coach have visited the boxing icon at his posh house at Forbes Park, Makati City, starting with the Dominican Republic's Karl-Anthony Towns.Towns met Pacquiao on Saturday. Their meeting was shown in a reel by Filipino-American social media influencer Chucky Anthony on Sunday.Pacquiao and Towns exchanged autographs and pictures of each other. He would also get to meet his son, Michael, in a separate Instagram story on Friday.

Looney and Thompson are in the country not to participate under their head coach Steve Kerr and team USA, but to take part in Anta Philippines' Shock the Game 4-on-4 basketball finals.Thompson would also launch his KT9 shoe and even dressed in a Barong Tagalog.That same evening, he would later meet the head coach of the Italian national basketball team, Gianmarco Pozzecco, who even gave the former politician a jersey of the team.

 

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