Gilas Pilipinas needs one more win to qualify for the 2021 Fiba Asia Cup.
The team will shoot for that win without a reinforcement as the naturalization process of Angelo Kouame isn’t expected to be completed by February, the schedule of the third window of qualifiers for the Asian basketball centerpiece.
“That wasn’t a likely possibility in the first place,” Rep. Roberto Puno, the principal sponsor of House Bill No. 5951, the law that makes the 6-foot-10 Ateneo center a Filipino, told the Inquirer on Tuesday. “Those who had earlier said that he could be available for the February window were merely expressing a hope that the process would be done by then.”
A source had earl…
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