Filipinos on the NBA and basketball life in the UAE. At the height of NBA fever, we talk to Pinoys about Lebron James, Stephen Curry and life as a basketball fan in the UAE.
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00:31Maggie.
00:35We usually compete at tournaments and competing with a different kind of category.
00:41There's a division of five-seven, five-nine.
00:44With this one it's like there's 10 teams competing to one another.
00:54I love basketball because as a Filipino, this is our main sports.
00:58With my uncle, with my parents, and with my neighbors, I've been always playing.
01:06So this is like our national sport and I love doing it.
01:11My father loved basketball, my grandfather loved basketball, so every corner in the streets
01:18in the Philippines, I love basketball.
01:21It helped me a lot because playing basketball helped me to quit smoking.
01:26So I was a smoker since I was 18 years old.
01:50I follow the finals because everyone is always talking anywhere.
01:54I wake up early because, number one, I have to wake up because of my kids, but when Golden
02:00State Warriors and Cavaliers are having a match, then I'm so excited to watch and see
02:06the live.
02:07I wake up early in the morning to watch the finals with family.
02:10Sometimes my wife, she's the first to wake up early, then she wakes me up.
02:14She said that the game started now.
02:17I just watch the replay, but if I have a chance, if we don't have work the next day, then I
02:23can wait for like 3 o'clock, 4 o'clock in the morning to watch for it.
02:27It's fun to watch together with teammates, cousins.
02:31There is cheering and then there is fun.
02:33I love watching with my friends because when you are watching alone, it's too hard.
02:39But when you are watching with these people, you have a lot of stories, you laugh too much.
02:44It's a crazy thing.
02:53Teamwork.
02:54The Warriors win for the 4-0, it's teamwork, and you can see the eye contact of each other.
03:00They are very helpful to each other.
03:03I would like to congratulate Warriors winning for this championship 2018.
03:06More power.
03:07The message that I would like to pass to Golden State Warriors, keep up and more, you know,
03:13keep up the good work.
03:15Keep up the good work.
03:17Keep up the good work.
03:19Keep up the good work.
03:21Keep up and more trophies to bring.
03:24Keep the good work and I hope they are still in top in the next season, more seasons, because
03:31they need to prepare the other team, because the other team will prepare for them to just
03:36make it, to compete the Golden State, to win the NBA Finals.
03:41I like Stephen Curry, but my husband is telling me that LeBron James is really a good player
03:47and someone that is really worthy of all the names that he's getting.
03:51So what I can say is, and being a fan of San Antonio Spurs in support of my husband, is
03:57hoping that he would move to San Antonio and I really think he would have a really good
04:03season with them and get the title that he would like to have, getting more championships
04:10with the team.