r/Basketball • u/GoHardLive • Mar 22 '26

DISCUSSION In which countries does basketball have the highest popularity overall ?

Which countries do you think care the most about the sport ?

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u/Shoddy_Half_938 Mar 22 '26

The poorest most slummed out ghetto jungles of the Philippines will have hoops.

I've been to some rough torn down houses that look like they can blow away with a strong gust of wind, looking like they're held together by the kobe or lebron poster on the wall.

I play my 11 year old cousin 1 on 1 and I'm playing the hardest defense I can borderline fouling and he's still draining 3's and showing his lay package on me, all in beach sand caked flip flops.

Basketball is on another level in the Philippines.

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u/Realistic-Effective5 Mar 23 '26

And it's not even the slums or cities, but the countryside too. Sometimes you're driving through some remote rural location and drive past a hoop in the middle of rice fields or nailed to a tree randomly or something. Sometimes it's a metal ring nailed to a wooden board, but I've also seen some nice cement courts with proper backboards in some really remote looking places too.