An American import that holds a near-sacred place in Filipino culture, basketball has grown into a national obsession in the Philippines – reflecting its complex past and the waves of foreign influence embedded in its identity. On the streets of Manila, makeshift basketball hoops stand at every street corner, while NBA iconography competes for wall space with images of Catholic saints, a hangover of centuries of Spanish colonialism and the religious society that remains in its place.…read more at nowness.com

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