With an eye at breaking the FIBA all-time attendance record, all roads will lead to the massive Philippine Arena in Bocaue, Bulacan on August 25 when Gilas Pilipinas makes its first appearance in the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup against Dominican Republic.
While a huge hometown crowd is a sure bet, the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas, led by its president Al Panlilio, is nonetheless calling on all basketball-loving Filipinos to arrive in droves and try and fill up the mammoth 55,000-capacity venue with the goal of setting a new FIBA gate record, a historic milestone the Philippines, as lead co-host of FIBA's pinnacle event, has only one shot at achieving.Gametime is set at 8 p.m.
, the only games scheduled at the Philippine Arena for the duration of the FIBAWC.The magic number to pass is 32,616, majority of which the United States Dream Team II, made up of NBA stars Shaquille O'Neal, Reggie Miller, Dominique Wilkins, Shawn Kemp and Alonzo Mourning, among others, drew in the Final of the 1994 FIBA World Championship in Toronto, Canada where the Americans routed Russia 137-91 in the most lopsided championship in World Cup history.
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