The Wider Image: In FIBA World Cup host Philippines, basketball

Girls practice dribbling basketballs at Manila South Cemetery in Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines, May 30, 2023. Basketball is played everywhere and by almost everyone in the Philippines, which counts the sport as a national obsession along with boxing and beauty pageants. Enthusiasm for the sport is only intensifying ahead of the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup, which opens in Manila on Friday. REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez