The Batangas Blades (or the LBC-Batangas Blades) is a former professional basketball team of the now-defunct Metropolitan Basketball Association from 1998-2002.
It's moniker was taken from the province's popularity in making Balisong (a Filipino-made knife). It also played for a short time in the Philippine Basketball League after the MBA folded in 2002.
The team played its home games at the De La Salle Lipa SENTRUM from 1998-2001 and at the Lipa City Convention Center in 2002. The PBL version of the Blades also played a number of games at both venues. To compensate the loss of the Manila Metrostars after both clubs' merger, the Blades played a few home games in Manila's Mail and More Sports Complex (now San Andres Gym).
Famous quotes containing the word blades:
“The virtue of making two blades of grass grow where only one grew before does not begin to be superhuman.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)