WHO won’t recognize Erik Spoelstra in this basketball-crazy country? Perhaps Chip Engelland hardly rings a bell anymore especially to current generation Filipinos, but he was in the 1980s. Spoelstra is the Miami Heat head coach, a two-time National Basketball Association (NBA) champion, who’s half Filipino—his mom the former Elisa Celino…
WHO won’t recognize Erik Spoelstra in this basketball-crazy country?
Engelland, the sharpshooter of the fabled Northern Consolidated team that was hailed back then as the future of Philippine international basketball. They’re all famous. More famous than the 12 players on their team vying in the FIBA World Cup that tips off Friday. Spoelstra said that the players—among them Minnesota Timberwolves scorer Anthony Edwards, New York Knicks’ Jalen Brunson and Memphis Grizzlies’ Jaren Jackson Jr.—will rise up to the occasion.
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