Gilas Pilipinas gets a final chance to salvage its forgettable FIBA World Cup campaign as it looks to score a breakthrough win over China to close out the classification phase
A victory over Team Dragon will be the Filipinos’ first in the World Cup in nearly a decade, or since they beat Senegal in the 2014 edition.
Another loss will mark the first time a World Cup host went winless since Colombia lost all of its six games in its hosting of the 1982 edition.
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