Basketball never stops and with the Filipinos arguably the best basketball fans in the world, love of the game is experienced like never before when the Philippines plays host to international basketball tournaments. When Smart Gilas players suit up with the familiar jerseys this week, fans drop everything watch every play unfold while praying fervently that when the final buzzer is heard, the final score favors our national team.
For one whole week, Filipinos will be glued to every game played by the Smart Gilas selection tasked to rule the 12th Southeast Asian Basketball Championship (SEABA) on May 12-18 at the Smart Araneta Coliseum in order to qualify for the 2017 FIBA Asia Cup, which to us can only mean one thing: A clear shot at basketball glory. SEABA is our only return ticket to FIBA Asia, which will lead the Philippines back on the Olympic basketball map.
“We are hopeful that we will be better and should be better to win the SEABA tournament to enter the 2017 FIBA Asia Championship,” said Manny V. Pangilinan, Chairman of PLDT and Smart and former Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (SBP) President. “We will make sure that our subscribers will have access to the game wherever they may be so there’s no reason to miss out on any of the games and the action that comes with each game.”
Immersive 360-degree viewing experience
Filipinos all over the Philippines can support our Smart Gilas heroes like never before when they watch the non-stop action with Smart360 via heroes like never before when they watch the non-stop action with Smart360 via http://360.smart.com.ph/, which will live stream all of Gilas Pilipinas’ six games beginning on May 12. The nationals will continue to battle it out against SEABA’s on May 13 and 14 before having a one-daybreak on May 15 only to play again from May 16 to 18. To maximize your viewing through Smart360, load up with Gigasurf 50 by keying in GIGA50 and sending it to 9999. Gigasurf 50 comes with 1GB of data plus 300MB for iflix, YouTube, Spinnr, Vimeo, Dailymotion and Dubsmash. It also comes with unlimited texts to all networks, valid for three (3) days.
By logging into Smart360, Smart subscribers will be right in the middle of the basketball action and they will never miss any crossover move by Terrence Romeo or an eye-in-the-sky connection from Jayson Castro to Japeth Aguilar because watching the game via Smart360 provides immersive 360-degree viewing access for a richer experience even when watching the games on-the-go.
Also playing for the Philippine flag are June Mar Fajardo, Calvin Abueva, Raymond Almazan, Jio Jalalon, Allein Maliksi, Roger Pogoy, Troy Rosario, Matthew Wright and naturalized reinforcement Andray Blatche.
The Philippine National team will open its SEABA campaign on May 12, Friday, against Myanmar. The Gilas team will play for six days of the seven-day SEABA duration against other Southeast Asian countries. There will be no semis or finals because the team with the most wins by the end of the tournament on May 18 wins the championship and will move on to the FIBA Asia qualifiers.
Recently named fastest LTE network by UK-based internet mapping company OpenSignal, Smart has been improving internet service so subscribers and basketball fans can enjoy the action in real time via Smart360 which also airs key PBA games, streams movies, concerts, music videos, and online contents from D5 Studio, Fox Sports, and GG Network among others. Links to mobile games and subscriptions are also featured when you visit Smart360.
Our Gilas men are doing well in this year's SEABA, a usual. Overkill.
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