#Pinoy: Filipinos on the NBA and basketball life in the UAE

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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.  Read the full Gulf News article: https://gulfnews.com/news/uae/pinoy/nba-and-being-a-filipino-basketball-fan-in-uae-1.2234638  See more at: http://gulfnews.com/videos

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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.

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