Philippine Basketball Association

The Philippine Basketball Association is a professional basketball league in the Philippines. It was founded in 1975, and as of 2003, the league had the following teams:

• Alaska Aces
• Coca-Cola Tigers
• FedEx Tigers
• Barangay Ginebra Kings
• Purefoods Tender Juicy Hotdogs
• Red Bull Barako
• San Miguel Beermen
• Santa Lucia Realtors
• Shell Turbo Chargers
• Talk N Text Phonepals

The league's rules are a hybrid of those established by FIBA and the U.S. National Basketball Association.