Ronwaldo Marasigan, 13, puts on his shoes before playing a community league basketball game at a makeshift court in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines, May 23, 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