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My opinion as a Filipino: -parity and fairness -no corruption -open to improvement and modernization -more imports -higher salary -open to foreign coaches (Tim Cone and Norman who are basically Filipino) -supports national team

As a Filipino I’m glad B-League is getting the recognition it deserves. Unlike our local league here. Even Manny Pacquiao’s league is better nowadays

@newagain9964

Ай бұрын

Bruh. I just knew u had to drop manny’s name.

@dar6405

Ай бұрын

PBA 🤮🤮

@ianmarco1375

Ай бұрын

@@newagain9964 its worth mentioning and MPBL was Pacquiao's league before he left it.

@Cloud-wf2nt

28 күн бұрын

MPBL is the best league right now, it's actually a really good thing to invest there if you have money PBA is a dying business, I don't even see viewers in that league anymore, it's dying While MPBL always has full seats cause most of the team represents their province, it's a really good thought out league

@solar_warden81

27 күн бұрын

PBA is hot garbage 🗑️

some of the Philippines’ elite ballers now playing in Japan’s B. League 🏀 Not surprising, since the Philippines’ own PBA is down in the dumps

@Jose.AFT.Saddul

Ай бұрын

I heard Filipinos could develop much better playing abroad. Since they get to train with more international players. Unlike the PBA which limits teams to one foreigner or “import”.

@kawaiipotatoes7888

Ай бұрын

Top young filipino players plays in bleague. Heck if we put 5 best bleague filipino players vs 5 best pba players the bleague ones would win 7 out of 10.

@tnsle000

Ай бұрын

i would too. the style and structure of game are modern unlike the PBA/MPBL that is "inter barangay" style of play.

@marksines1246

Ай бұрын

philippine basketball is stuck in the 90’s play style most of the time

@jakeoruas8198

Ай бұрын

​@@Jose.AFT.SaddulNot to mention the height limit of the imports only in the Philippines

As an asian basketball enjoyer, i'd like to correct that Basketball rn comes in after Baseball, Football and Volleyball. The japanese really do love their volleyball and the leagues / competitions are established way before any basketball leagues set foot in the country Which is no hard knock on the sport, it's still the fastest growing sport in the country. Even surpasing rugby at some point

@WastedBananas

Ай бұрын

what about sumo?

@OperaVanDubels

Ай бұрын

​@@WastedBananas that's a national sport shouldn't compare it with entertainment sport

@kushalkarki7215

Ай бұрын

But in japan football is boom because their players are playing in top leagues like mitoma , tomiyasu so to beat football in Japan it's quite long journey

@khaiwee9024

Ай бұрын

@@kushalkarki7215 oh definetly but mitoma or tomiyasu is still far eclipsed by shohei ohtani as japan's most popular sports person rn i'd argue that the likes of yuki ishikawa, yuji nishida and ran takahashi are bigger names than watanabe or hachimura

@vassiliskyriakou

Ай бұрын

​@@khaiwee9024 I had no idea that Japanese people love baseball even before the ww2. And I only found out about this after I watched an Asadora series called "Yell". And serious after I watched many Asadora shows, I have a much bigger respect for Japanese people.

Japan also has the perfect time zone to watch NBA games.

J‐League football and Nippon Baseball League rule Japan. Basketball is just recently rising. They are even importing Filipinos to play for their teams. Whenever I think of Japanese basketball, I can't help but remember Slam Dunk and the anime with the generational players.

This video is really accurate! Basketball in Japan is really getting exciting lately

Japan also had 5 NCAA D1 players this past season.

@tnsle000

Ай бұрын

they are on their way to be the #1 team in Asia

@nagi6601

Ай бұрын

2023-24 ・Keisei Tominaga(Nebraska／senior) ・Yuto Yamanouchi-Williams(Portland／sophomore) ・Ibu Yamazaki(Radford／sophomore／injured) ・Bruce Kanno(Stetson／sophomore) ・Taku Youngblood(Gardner-Webb／sophomore) ・Akira Jacobs(Hawaii／freshman) ・Keshawn McNeill(St.Francis(PA)／freshman)

@nagi6601

Ай бұрын

2024-25 freshman ・Luka Toews(Boston College) ・Lawrence Yasuo Rudolph(CSU Fullerton) ・Jesse Yoshi Nimmo(Arkansas) ・Roy Igwe(Hawaii) ・Yuto Kawashima(NBA Global Acadamy(🇦🇺)→？？？)

It’s amazing how they grew in just a span of 5 years

As a Filipino, I initially thought that going to Japan was quite a downgrade for our top players since the top pleague few years ago was CBA, or in FIBA terms, NBL but I was wrong. In a span of few years JBL seem better than CBA and possibly getting better than NBL. I noticed that some top guys in NBL struggle in playing in JBL.

please as an italian you should cover our terrible situation with basketball in both LBA and Italbasket

@user-xl7hp8bi6x

Ай бұрын

Same with PBA Philippines, it's way terrible than u think.

@kostasoly9318

Ай бұрын

Why terrible?LBA was the best in Europe in 80s..but Siena,Roma,Fortitudo are missing...

@user-xl7hp8bi6x

Ай бұрын

@@kostasoly9318 yeah, it's even better than the local league here in the Philippines. Local professional league here is abysmal

50% female fans is important than people think. Sports are traditionally a male thing so to see basketball being loved by women as big time. Every basketball league in the world should strive for that split.

@8teenOfficial

Ай бұрын

You can also relate it to the good looking players in the league as well, asian or international, Dwight Ramos as an example.

@Yautah

Ай бұрын

women seem pretty involved in Japanese sports, there's a lot of women fans of football too(maybe because the women's team is usually very good).

@gambitacio

25 күн бұрын

Why? Why must you force a split on everything? If women are allowed their own entertainment places, then men should too. It’s also a men’s thing for a reason. Stop pushing all that diversity crap or should we force airplane crashes to be 50-50 too?

When I watched European basketball leagues, I thought there were more men. But Japanese B-League, there are more women than men. Therefore, there is an atmosphere where people who do not know much about basketball can easily come and watch the games.

Wasn't expecting B.League coverage, very nice!

I've been watching some games (they're streaming all b1 playoff games on youtube, btw), and it's really surprising how packed the arenas are. They're not huge arenas, mind you, but the atmosphere it brings makes every game feel huge.

Do one about BAL (basketball Africa league)

@ElDiabeto

Ай бұрын

That's truly something amazing they did with that, a lot of potential to be made

@DeeDeeCHAUNCEY

Ай бұрын

I want to see that vid

@joshuaericsantos3552

Ай бұрын

I believe you guys are the future of basketball.

@realtalk6195

20 күн бұрын

@@ElDiabeto BAL had good promotion it's first season. After that it's been abysmal. It's not even on the map anymore. Huge lost opportunity. BAL don't even have proper highlight videos anymore. They don't even want to add flag emojis to the YT video titles despite saying they would years ago.

Thank you for sharing

I live in Japan, haven't had the chance to see it live in person, but have seen several games on TV. But there seems to be an NCAA basketball type of atmosphere, while having the entertainment like the NBA. With the players also being fundamentally sound (to which maybe one of the reasons why Japan's women's and mens basketball teams had success in Olympics and in FIBA World Cup), it's definitely worthy to watch, TV or in person, as I would hope to get some tickets to see the games next season. And it also helps that Slam Dunk, the iconic sports manga/anime considered one of the best of all time, had the movie come out in December of 2022. It has a cult-like following in Asia, and a great storyline that can make you cry.

I love the B league. I’ve been following it for a couple years now.

"Get ready to learn japanese buddy" 😭

As a Filipino, this is a two edged sword. B league has been a great platform and probably the greatest thing that could happen for our local players.They play in a much better competition which they translate in the national team and at the same time getting paid really well. Second is that, this pains many Filipino fans that we could only wish we have the same leaderships and innovations as the Japanese have. The B league hasn't been existing for 10 years yet they already had a major breakthrough by qualifying for the Olympics. They might even produce Japanese players in the NBA way faster than the Philippines. Basketball leaders and the system here in the Philippines are so incompetent, corrupt and rotten a that it's laughable that how can a country who is sitting in a basketball gold mine yet they can't even put an organized and "moral" system for it. The professional league here will celebrate its 50th year yet nothing has changed ever since it was founded except for its obvious incompetency and decline. By the way, Indonesia has actually taken the Japan B league model. Watch out for that country because they'll be coming for that Philippine "dominance" in the region.

@tnsle000

Ай бұрын

not to mention Philippine style of basketball is OUTDATED.

@theblock4945

Ай бұрын

Does PBA officials know how to use the INTERNET??!! like how can't they see other nations' growth and innovations such as these! are they blind or what?! or are just incompetent as they say. 🤷‍♀️ as a fan of the game, I'm truly jealous of other countries put an effort into their leagues. Taiwan, Indonesia Japan, etc...

@thomascamus3136

Ай бұрын

@@theblock4945 Wala lang talaga silang paki alam. As long kasi na may nanunood pa, ganyan at ganyan na lang yan. Kung i cacall out mo sila lalo na ung mga nasa circle ng PBA like Quinito Henson, i dedeny na pa yang kabalastugan sa liga to the extent na pag tatakwil ka nila nyan. "Edi wag kang manood. Dun ka sa MPBL o volleyball. Di ka kawalan." Mga ganyan ung mga linya nila.

@draspen

Ай бұрын

Why do Filipinos always have to introduce themselves first by saying "as a Filipino"? Pretty much everywhere I go on the internet.

@theblock4945

Ай бұрын

@draspen let's change it to "me, filipino," then..

Even though I've never played against a Japanese player, when I was younger we played against some Filipino missionaries that were visiting the US and man they COOKED us. We had no clue that basketball was huge in the Philippines and Asia in general. Glad to see the game is growing globally.

When I visit Japan I am watching a B.League game!

me watching kai sotto play: i need that, we need that -pep guardiola

Japan going up, 💯, rest of the Asian leagues are struggling…

3:06 D.J. Newbill is one of the best players in B.League in Japan!

japan sports events are booming, baseball, volleyball, rugby, football and now basketball. japan no. 1!

@DelapazTotong

29 күн бұрын

In football not really.Iran,Iraq and Jordan beats it

Japan basketball is really on the rise!

I love the Japanese B.League it's a different brand of basketball. It's like NBA is double-dutch ice cream, and it's wonderful and great and you love it but there's also mango ice cream which is also awesome.

On the other end, you need to make a video about the decline of Philippine Basketball Association (PBA), the oldest pro basketball league on Asia. That would be fun.

I hope that the MPBL could experience this level of growth soon😀

@tnsle000

Ай бұрын

doubt that

@kokoy0971

Ай бұрын

@@tnsle000 Yeah manny and the other stakeholders need to take their boomer hats off first

@jrmayun

Ай бұрын

Sa dami ng bentahan dyan, doubtful. Ang dami na ngang nahuli pero sige pa rin 😅.

For me the break up moment for Japanese basketball was the 3rd Window Qualifiers for the 2019 world cup, especially that game Against Australia when they had a record 0-4, with a young Hachimura and Watanabe, Wins o go home game. Giving to Australia their first L since they are on FIBA Asia and then winning their remaining 8 matches qualifying for the world cup. A movie narrative 🤣🤣

I knew about it. I live here since many years and saw several games live. I even know some bleague players in personal ( also Japanese national team players) cause many started playing at a big outdoor park in Tokyo. Atmosphere at the games are really nice, strange though that the majority of fans in the stands are children ( majority girls ) and woman . Still nice !

A very good product, with free games here in KZread for intenational audience

She said “he makes it in his eye”!!🤣😂😭😭 2:10

basket news, you should make a documentary about the PBA. the oldest league in Asia but its a trash league now since how its handled. one of it is having a height restriction for a playing import. one owner has 3 teams in which they can manipulate trades to power their number one team. etc

As a basketball fan and bartender, I often get off late from work and watch some Japanese games. Sometimes German games in the afternoon too. Growing leagues around the world. France wants it. Brazil wants it. Even teams in the Middle East. It's awesome.

the fact that these overseas leagues don't have to share their stadiums with hockey teams makes the viewing experience much better

please make a documentary about the strange rules and degrading situation PBA

I recently got into B League, it's pretty entertaining.

@johndavis6719

Ай бұрын

I need to watch some games sounds interesting.

B league is also the top destination of Filipino basketball.players as they can develop their skills better there.

Filipino are my favourite ppl to play basketball w Auckland nz is starting to get a huge population of Filipinos and they are fkn awesome to play ball w

Back then,every Filipino kid's dream was to play in PBA now its BLeague 😂

Next thing. The dying philippine basketball association or mainly the different domestic leagues in the philippines. I wanna know if it will affect the philippines status in fiba.

@kennethyu6041

Ай бұрын

i hope FIBA intervenes here in the Philippines like how they intervened in japan. Like when they gave them an ultimatum if they wont fix their league they will be terminated, I hope the same thing happens here in the PH so if PBA doesn't comply there is now a valid termination notice.

Japan really serious to grow their Basketball League to produce a Talent that can compete in World Cup!

Dayum Japan already had better arenas than France 😢 fuck it we suck...

@alfa9102

Ай бұрын

Yeah agreed but are thé better than us? 🤔

@ninogagliardini5674

Ай бұрын

@@alfa9102 nah obviously not

im glad Japan had enough sense to ditch the BJ League name.

I thought this dude was going to talk about the T-1 league. The B League has caught my interest though!

They're very organized and there is always a hierachy involved.

Japan Basketball League is growing faster and much bigger market across ASIAN Basketball League opposite to Philippine Basketball Association its sucks and awful

Cingular wireless basketball logo? 😂

Bro its from slam dunk series lol

Aside from baseball and football.. i'll add volleyball before basketball.

What. Out for japan... once they put an eye into one sport they dominate after some years ( look at the little leagues , or how they won germany at the world cup, etc) so, basically in some years either the league will start pulling very competitive players

most Filipino imports benefited in playing in b.league... though there are some notable ones that did not succeed.

I wonder why Watanabe doesn't play in Euroleague.

@baskingbal1

Ай бұрын

He had an interview where he talked about the extreme homesickness he felt living internationally. The NBA had been his dream his whole life, so he made a promise to himself to stick it out until he turned 30. Next season he'll be 30, so he just wants to go back home. I honestly feel like he'd get paid more in the B League too.

@ctsa028

Ай бұрын

​@@baskingbal1TLDR he wants to go home

@bnb6868

Ай бұрын

He can make way more money in the b league as a native star as well as living in his home country not needing to learn a new language and customs.

@jamavra

28 күн бұрын

Not only that he will for sure receive a lot of other marketing and endorsements. He is a NBA player. He's gonna be the highest profile local player in the league. Perhaps one day he'll even be president of the league

11th place?! If they were 11th place they would have advanced to the 2nd round. Try 19th place

Look at Japanese basketball, slowly on the rise, while Philippine basketball, is slowly falling down due to awful management

The basketball is growing incredible fast on many countries East-ASIA in the last 8 years!. The b-league, Taiwanese League, Indonesia leagues, and many others... It wouldn't be a surprise if in 20 years that region becomes the epicenter of the World Basketball.

tell the b league put me in the game

San En NeoPhoenix all the wayy!!

Japan has grown tremendously in rugby union as well. That makes two sports that Japan is doing much better than South Korea. In fact, Taiwan will become much better than South Korean in basketball too. The sport is huge there.

Women's Volleyball is more popular than basketball in the Philippines right now.

@jamavra

28 күн бұрын

No. Basketball is default sport for many. The terrible league doesn't wipe away basketball being #1.

Can someone explain why FIBA has a say on how JBA should run their organization?

@HUNKmelon

27 күн бұрын

There were two leagues in the country. FIBA wanted to have only one league per country. Incidentally, the same person founded both the J-League, Japan's soccer leagues, and the B.League. He integrated the leagues in 8 months, which the JBA could not do for years. He asked Japan's then second richest man to invest in the League.

Japan always plays tacticaly advanced i every sport. maybe they do not have the athleticism that much but they always play very advanced schemes.

I wonder if a relegation system would boost competitiveness in the nba

@thomascamus3136

Ай бұрын

Nah. Make their player contracts non-guaranteed like the NFL. I bet you Ben Simmons and 50% of the NBA would play 82 games even with a broken back.

Relegation should be adopted by the NBA. NBA and the euro league should merge and create a real “global” league.

A lot safer than playing in China, I see why international players would choose it over others if the pay was similar

PBA could never

Why is Bobby Lee in the thumbnail?

@ola4339

Ай бұрын

They are all Bobby Lees 😅

@AMACHiiBiong

Ай бұрын

💀 that’s Yuta Tabuse

Lol. LeFlop’s handshake with Rui uses a Thai gesture

Cricket is fastest growing sport in Japan

while the league in the philippines (pba) stick to their old ways and refuse to embrace change. Only focusing on the business side which hurts the development of our players.

Can you guys do an analysis on the decline and downfall of Asia's oldest league? Its so laughable that every Filipino except Ginebra fans really will celebrate its downfall. It's just a great topic on how a basketball driven country badly wants to abolish its main basketball league.

Meanwhile there is PBA an archaic league 😒

Oh no... If Japanese kids start pursuing basketball, you know insane coaches & basketball drill sergeants won't be far behind 😅

Cool

They are still not beating Eur teams in the Olympics though😅😅

@j.r.h.9265

Ай бұрын

Japan beat Markkanen-led Finland team.

@Chavanun555

Ай бұрын

@@j.r.h.9265 lol sure Finland. I was talking about stuff Like France, Spain, Germany, Latvia, the actual cream of the crop teams that actually have good basketball league and went deep in the Olympics and Fiba but yeah beating Lauri lead team is also good

@HUNKmelon

27 күн бұрын

@@Chavanun555まだ設立してから8年なんだから長い目で見てくれ😂

@Chavanun555

27 күн бұрын

@@HUNKmelon nihonjin is here lol. Koroko no basket. Slam Dunk Lets gooo

@HUNKmelon

27 күн бұрын

@@Chavanun555 何言ってるの？ママの元に帰った方がいい

Also kuroko no basket is a really good anime so I’m sure the kids also want imitate what they see in the show

@hyjinks1

Ай бұрын

Slam Dunk is the more iconic basketball anime in Japan for sure

@hanli5416

Ай бұрын

Lol if they tried that, japan would sink basketball skill wise as the anime skills are kinda like inazuma eleven skills. Personally i would not expect too much change or movement based of anime or manga really for basketball anymore. They allready had best basketball manga anime ever a couple of decades ago with slam dunk. For many still best sports manga anime ever that showed you realistic basketball and skills.

@hanli5416

Ай бұрын

@@hyjinks1 this is most definitely true for real basketball fans, i admit young kids (especially younger than six) however might look slightly differently at it

@kawaiipotatoes7888

Ай бұрын

Kuroko is unrealistic af it is slam dunk who introduce basic basketball concepts to the Japanese. The mangaka even put a scholarship for the best Japanese highschool player to study and play in american colleges. Without him watanabe is hachimura would be baseball players.

Is the league in the Philippines terrible lol ?

@kennethyu6041

Ай бұрын

Terrible is an understatement just so you know. ITs beyond awful

@HUNKmelon

27 күн бұрын

@@kennethyu6041 Wouldn't your country also need to develop your economy as a country just to have investment come to pba in the first place? In the case of Japan, the first priority was to generate revenue as a league rather than to increase competitiveness. As a result, the money earned can be used to pay players' salaries, personnel costs, or arena construction costs, and generate even greater profits.

CALLING PBA!

Jnba average high is 4"9.

It would be to easy for nba players and not everyone gonna go and so i dont really care but also they kinda just copied the nba

Pls.make Philippine basketball association. Hahah it's the opposite of b league most disappointing league

THE PBA Philippines basketball association succc awful, empty arena,no excitement, the weakest competition in asia no fans engagement whatsoever.indonesia basketball league (ibl) is 10 times better than pba from the competition and fans engagement and plus they have home and away format

just relying on Filipinos hahahhahahahhahahaa

high energy league, but very awful play. out of the 49k people who watched this video, maybe 5 have watched a full game of the japanese league, myself included. the league is awful. BAD, BAD.

The NBA players are still better at playing victim. Watch a game.

and what's even crazier is football, volleyball, rugby and basketball, which incidentally are not Japanese people's favorite sports but all of them have qualified for the Olympics and their popularity is increasing as the population decreases

0:27 🤦 Baseball is way, WAAAAAAAAAAAY more popular than football in Japan! Like they're not even close!

PBA could never