Forty-five years ago, the Philippine Basketball Association, the country’s and Asia’s first professional basketball league, was born with mild turbulence.

As designed by its founders, action grew more exciting than when the nine teams that bolted from the amateur ranks. The games took a vast improvement, attendance picked up and competition became stiffer.

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