Summary
Utah Jazz point guard Trey Burke went to the Philippines to touch lives. By the time he left, his own had been moved.
“The way that they love the game, the passion they have for it. It’s so easy to relate to a country like this.”
Trey Burke
In the Philippines, roundball is religion.
That’s true in the capital, where the second-oldest professional basketball league in the world, the Philippine Basketball Association, has thrived since 1975, and the provinces, where jeepneys cruise along rural rice-field-lined roads with NBA team decals fixed to their sides.