{"id":2284,"date":"2012-12-04T19:47:44","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T19:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=2284"},"modified":"2012-12-04T19:47:44","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T19:47:44","slug":"full-strength-and-legit-rp-hoop-teams-coming-by-jaime-kelly-pimentel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=2284","title":{"rendered":"Full-strength and legit RP hoop teams coming by Jaime Kelly Pimentel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A TRULY representative Philippine national basketball team is coming to Sydney for game series early next year, possibly in the first quarter of 2013. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8221;It will be the first time that a legit Philippine national team will play a series of games in Australia against local sides,&#8221; said Basketball NSW chief executive Daniel Martinez in a press conference last month at Dooleys Club in Lidcombe NSW.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;No more makeshift teams representing themselves as Philippine national or full-strength professional basketball sides. We are arranging for full-strength Philippine teams to come.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Martinez returned recently from a business trip to Manila to meet with officials of the Philippine Sports Commission, the Philippine Basketball Association, and the Philippine Basketball League.<\/p>\n<p>Talks between Mr. Martinez and Philippine sports officials were comprehensive and included an exchange program in which Philippine basketball players will be individually assessed technically by advanced new Australian methods.<\/p>\n<p>A firm tour schedule of the first Philippine basketball team tour of Australia will be announced by Mr Martinez late December of early January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A TRULY representative Philippine national basketball team is coming to Sydney for game series early next year, possibly in the first quarter of 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}