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The Sta . Lucia Realtors was a professional basketball team in the Philippine Basketball Association ( PBA ) from 1993 to 2010 . Prior to joining the PBA , it played in the Philippine Basketball League ( PBL ) from 1987 to 1992 . Jercules `` Jojo '' Tangkay ( born November 26 , 1976 in Aloguinsan , Cebu ) is a professional basketball player who played for the Welcoat Dragons in the Philippine Basketball Association . He was drafted 16th overall by the Sta . Lucia Realtors in 2001 . The Philippine Basketball Association ( PBA ) is a men ' s professional basketball league in the ___MASK60___ composed of twelve company - branded franchised teams . It is the first professional basketball league in Asia and is the second oldest continuously existing in the world after the NBA . The league ' s regulations are a hybrid of rules from the NBA . The Philippine Basketball League ( PBL ) was a commercial semi - professional basketball league in the ___MASK60___ . The league is composed of several commercial teams with several collegiate and provincial stars . The ___MASK60___ , officially the Republic of the ___MASK60___ , is a sovereign island country in Southeast Asia situated in the western Pacific Ocean . It consists of about 7 , 641 islands that are categorized broadly under three main geographical divisions from north to south : Luzon , Visayas , and Mindanao . The capital city of the ___MASK60___ is Manila and the most populous city is Quezon City , both part of Metro Manila . Bounded by the South China Sea on the west , the Philippine Sea on the east and the Celebes Sea on the southwest , the ___MASK60___ shares maritime borders with Taiwan to the north , Vietnam to the west , Palau to the east and Malaysia and Indonesia to the south . Asia is ___MASK27___ ' s largest and most populous continent , located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres and sharing the continental landmass of Eurasia with the continent of Europe . Asia covers an area of , about 30 % of ___MASK27___ ' s total land area and 8 . 7 % of the ___MASK27___ ' s total surface area . The continent , which has long been home to the majority of the human population , was the site of many of the first civilizations . Asia is notable for not only its overall large size and population , but also dense and large settlements as well as vast barely populated regions within the continent of 4 . 4 billion people . James Naismith ( November 6 , 1861  November 28 , 1939 ) was a Canadian - ___MASK73___ physical educator , physician , chaplain , sports coach and innovator . He invented the game of basketball at age 30 in 1891 . He wrote the original basketball rule book and founded the University of Kansas basketball program . Naismith lived to see basketball adopted as an Olympic demonstration sport in 1904 and as an official event at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin , as well as the birth of the National Invitation Tournament ( 1938 ) and the NCAA Tournament ( 1939 ). Basketball is a sport that is played by two teams of five players on a rectangular court . The objective is to shoot a ball through a hoop in diameter and mounted at a height of to backboards at each end of the court . The game was invented in 1891 by Dr . James Naismith , who would be the first basketball coach of the Kansas Jayhawks , one of the most successful programs in the game ' s history . The world is the planet ___MASK27___ and all life upon it , including human civilization . In a philosophical context , the world is the whole of the physical Universe , or an ontological world . In a theological context , the " world " is the material or the profane sphere , as opposed to the celestial , spiritual , transcendent or sacred . The " end of the world " refers to scenarios of the final end of human history , often in religious contexts .