Small-town Locals to Build “Courts of Inspiration” around Visayas & Mindanao
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. More than Just a Sports Venue