1990 Philippines Men's Asian Games Basketball Team

The 1990 Philippines men's Asian Games basketball team, nicknamed the "Philippines Dream Team", competed in the 1990 Asian Games, fully made up of professional players from the Philippine Basketball Association. This was the first time that the country ever sent a national team made up of professionals players. However, unlike the United States' Dream Team, this team was called such because its main goal was to wrest back Asian basketball supremacy from teams such as China. The nickname was given only recently, after the failures of the succeeding all-pro national teams in the FIBA-sanctioned tournaments, more than a decade after the team had finished competing in the said tournament.

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