Renzo de Paz (R), 19, who has a tattoo of a basketball on his chest, plays at the community-built basketball court Baryo Aroma in Tondo, Manila, Philippines, August 4, 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