The Philippine Basketball Association is a commercial league (Teams are owned and branded by corporations). It is terribly rough and tumble, very low scoring as a result. Pretty boring.
I can say that more than the NBA, the PBA in its infancy thrilled me like no other sport. Mainly because it was shown on local TV so many times a week, while the NBA, being imported, was shown only weekly or even once every few weeks. I remember my mom hollering for dinner and I wouldn't budge from my seat and was willing to even skip dinner for the PBA games. There was this local rivalry between Toyota vs Crispa, much like the Celtics and the Lakers. That was the only time I ever bet money on a basketball game, and I was in high shool then. My lament on the present PBA is the same, boring, and the players do not show unique talents compared to the 70s and 80s players who thought not physically as honed as today's players, played their own styles which is pretty entertaining. Our local living legend Robert Jaworski is such a talent (he became a senator like Bill Bradley) and his patented 'barreling drive' always draws cheers from the crowd as his defenders dare not stay in front of him or 'flop' against him - they might end up in the hospital. LOL I have several basketball heroes in that era. And I stopped watching since Toyota disbanded.