Reyes says hosting World Cup is `like the Pope coming to Manila`
(WorldNews Asia)

MANILA (FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023) - There was not a happier man in Switzerland on Saturday than Philippines coach Chot Reyes following the announcement that the joint bid of his country, along with Japan and Indonesia, to host the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023 had been successful. Reyes, who led Gilas to a runners-up finish at the FIBA Asia Cup 2013 and then to an impressive appearance at the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2014 in Seville, Spain, experienced another high of being at a ceremony where the Philippines learned it would be a host nation of the sport`s biggest competition for the first time since 1978. `We`re very, very happy,` Reyes said. `We will have the world`s best...