What was billed as an exhibition series between the Gilas Pilipinas national basketball team and a group of National Basketball Association (NBA) stars has turned into a fiasco that enraged fans, triggered a call for a congressional inquiry and embarrassed one of the country’s telecommunications giants.

“The Last Home Stand,” a two-day event at the Smart Araneta Coliseum sponsored by the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT), was widely promoted as tune-up games for Gilas, which is preparing for the FIBA World Cup in Spain this August.

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