The Wider Image: In FIBA World Cup host Philippines, basketball is life
Children play NBA 2K, a basketball video game, at an internet 'vending machine' known in the Philippines as a pisonet, in Tondo, Manila, Philippines, May 17, 2023. Basketball is played everywhere and by almost everyone in the Philippines, which counts the sport as a national obsession along with boxing and beauty pageants. Enthusiasm for the sport is only intensifying ahead of the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup, which opens in Manila on Friday. REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez SEARCH "LOPEZ BASKETBALL PHILIPPINES" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.