The Gold's Gym–Pasig Kings are a Philippine men's 3-on-3 basketball team that last played in the Chooks-to-Go Pilipinas 3x3 league. They were the champions of the first league conference, the 2019 President's Cup.
22-685: The Kings as the Pasig Grind house Kings was among the teams that participated in the inaugural season of the Chooks-to-Go Pilipinas 3x3 league. They won the overall title of the first conference of the league, the President's Cup and won a berth to become one of the Philippines' representative teams at the 2019 FIBA 3x3 World Tour Masters in Doha , Qatar . Pasig along the 1Bataan Risers also qualified for
44-471: A Philippine passport by age 16, an eligibility requirement for the full 5-a-side basketball. Teams can name up to six players per conference but can only field four players per leg or tournament in a conference. The players need not to be a native of the team's home locality. For the Patriot's Cup each team can field one foreign player. Matches of the league in the inaugural season were broadcast by ESPN5 . For
66-853: A blocktime deal which subsequently became AKTV . It was launched on May 5, 2011, through a marathon held at the Mall Of Asia Grounds in Pasay. From then on, Sports5 obtained rights to air major sporting leagues and events like the Philippine Basketball Association United Football League , the NCAA . Until its flagship primetime sports block's closure on May 31, 2013 due to high blocktime costs and poor ratings, most of its programs are aired on IBC through its programming block AKTV. From June 2013 onwards, most of its sports coverages are shown on TV5 , AksyonTV and Hyper . It
88-545: A localized version of ESPN.com and the streaming ESPN Player service on January 31, 2018. The partnership marked the return of the ESPN brand to the country since the replacement of ESPN Philippines with Fox Sports Asia. Meanwhile, the re-launch as ESPN5 also caused the delays of many of Viva Television 's planned productions for TV5 to late 2020 and early 2021 (especially Masked Singer Pilipinas and Kagat ng Dilim ). On March 8, 2020, ESPN5 ceased to exist on television and
110-665: A medal event in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo . The organization of a 3x3 league would enable the Philippines to participate in FIBA 3x3 World Tour to accumulate points to qualify for the 3x3 event in the Olympics. Eric Altamirano was named as the league's first commissioner. The pre-season game was set to commence on January 14, 2019, at the Ynares Sports Arena in Pasig , Metro Manila and
132-572: Is headquartered at TV5 Media Center , Reliance cor. Sheridan st., Mandaluyong . Sports5 is the official TV partner of the Olympic Games in the Philippines from 2014 to 2016. In 2016, Sports5 acquired the Philippine broadcast rights (from ABS-CBN Sports ) to air Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) on free TV and satellite. On October 12, 2017, TV5 announced that it had reached a partnership with ESPN International to re-brand Sports 5 as ESPN5 ;
154-408: The 2020–21 season , BEAM TV will broadcast the entirety of the upcoming Chooks-to-Go Pilipinas 3x3 President's Cup. ESPN5 One Sports (formerly ABC Sports from 2004 to 2008, Sports5 from 2011 to 2017 and ESPN5 from 2017 to 2020) is the sports division of TV5 Network, Inc. and jointly-operated with sister company Cignal TV . One Sports supplies and airs major sporting events in
176-637: The Philippines and the world for free-to-air TV channels TV5 , RPTV , One Sports channel , Cignal -exclusive channels One Sports+ , PBA Rush , NBA TV Philippines and UAAP Varsity Channel , and online esports streaming channel GG Network. Its flagship program is the Philippine Basketball Association , the world's second oldest professional basketball league, since it acquired the television rights from 2004 to 2008 and since 2011. The network's sports division, then known as ABC Sports,
198-575: The Cooks-To-Go 3x3 league, the team competed as the Gold's Gym–Pasig Kings. The following is Pasig's roster for the 2019 FIBA 3x3 Kunshan Challenger. N/A Chooks-to-Go Pilipinas 3x3 Chooks-to-Go Pilipinas 3x3 was a professional 3-on-3 basketball league in the Philippines and was organized by the country's national basketball federation, the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (SBP). It
220-549: The Horn , Pardon the Interruption , U.S. college sports, and the X Games . Although ESPN is a U.S. NBA broadcaster, the league has a separate rights deal with ABS-CBN (under partnership with Solar Sports ). The operation includes a local version of ESPN's flagship studio program SportsCenter , SportsCenter Philippines (which premiered on December 17, 2017), and collaboration between ESPN and TV5 on digital content—having launched
242-680: The Patriot's Cup and the Magiting Cup. The league attained professional status in July 2020, when it received approval from the Games and Amusement Board . The 2020 season was planned to have three competitions like the previous season but only the President's Cup was held due to the COVID-19 pandemic . The third season was held in October 2021 with a one-day invitational tournament featuring 12 teams. The tournament
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#1732902877639264-479: The President's Cup, the first conference of the inaugural season was held which consisted of six legs, including a grand final leg. In March 2019, it was reported that FIBA gave the Chooks-to-Go Pilipinas 3x3 recognition as a Quest level competition which meant that the winner of the President's Cup automatically qualifies for the FIBA 3x3 World Tour . Two more competitions were held for the 2019 season,
286-553: The inaugural 2019 FIBA Asia-Pacific Super Quest to be hosted in the Philippines on account of their overall performance in the conference. At the 2019 FIBA Asia-Pacific Super Quest, they finished third place, losing to eventual champions Tokyo Dime.exe in the semifinal. They also qualified to play in the Kunshan Challengers due to their finishing in the tournament. In the Doha Masters of the 2019 FIBA 3x3 World Tour, they reached
308-769: The knockout stage losing to Riga Ghetto in the quarterfinals. Fielding an all-Filipino lineup, the same lineup that won the Chooks-to-Go Pilipinas President's Cup title, failed to advance to the knockout stage in the Kunshan Challenger losing to Sosnovy BorCopRosatom and Liman. They are set to participate in the Tinkoff Moscow 2019 in Russia in a bid to qualify for the Prague Masters In the Patriot Cup of
330-512: The network acquired broadcasting rights to the ASEAN Basketball League (the Philippine team in the league, AirAsia Philippine Patriots , was by-then managed by ABC/TV5 owner Antonio "Tonyboy" Cojuangco, Jr.), U.S. boxing matches, and others. In 2010, ABL's broadcasting contract with TV5 expired, after TV5 was acquired by MediaQuest Holdings , and was moved to IBC-13 and later, ABS-CBN Sports and Action . In 2011, TV5 and IBC , inked
352-418: The network still managed to cover the 2008 PBA Fiesta Conference finals , though it is under the auspices of ABC's blocktimer MPB Primedia, Inc. After which, broadcast rights for PBA, NBA, and WWE were then moved to Solar Sports and RPN starting in the 2008–09 season. In 2009, ABC Sports, still under management of MPB Primedia, was renamed as TV5 Sports in the interim (does not identify as such), in which
374-576: The new TV5 Network management will no longer renew a contract with ESPN due to massive negative feedbacks by the fans of the network's entertainment programming against former TV5 Network President and CEO Chot Reyes as well as poor ratings of its sports programming on TV5 and loss of advertisers' support. At the same day, 5 Plus was relaunched as a dedicated channel of One Sports which was moved from being an exclusive-pay television channel to free-to-air and eventually taking over its channel space. Meanwhile, its original pay television counterpart on Cignal
396-555: The re-branding took effect the next day, coinciding with game 1 of the PBA Governors' Cup final. As part of the relationship, the channel acquired domestic rights to some of ESPN 's U.S. and international programming, including classic boxing matches aired on ESPN Classic (also includes some matches from ESPN2 's Friday Night Fights ), IndyCar Series , the NFL , ESPN Films ' documentary series 30 for 30 and Nine for IX , Around
418-578: Was established in 2004 as a result of ABC-5's acquisition of broadcast rights to the Philippine Basketball Association . The telecasts were known as the PBA on ABC , after the disbandment of the broadcasting consortium between NBN-4 and IBC-13 . Aside from PBA, ABC Sports also broadcast volleyball games and local boxing bouts, as well as NBA basketball and WWE wrestling matches (in partnership with Solar Entertainment ). But after ABC rebranded to TV5 in August 2008,
440-481: Was formed in 2018 as a bid to get the Philippines to qualify for the 3x3 basketball event in the Summer Olympics. In December 2018, Bounty Agro Ventures the company behind the roast chicken brand Chooks-to-Go, announced that it would be helping establish a 3-on-3 basketball league to be organized by the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas . This followed the inclusion of the 3x3 variant of basketball being included as
462-526: Was rebranded as One Sports (named after the then pay television channel of the same name), as both 5 and the new One Sports channel decided to not carry any ESPN5-branded programming on its schedule. The partnership continued however both on online as the ESPN5 webpage it was active and served as the de facto One Sports homepage in the Philippines and on-air as ESPN programs continue to broadcast on both 5 (later reverted to TV5) and One Sports until October 13, 2021, as
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#1732902877639484-452: Was won by Manila HeiHei. The league was effectively dissolved when Chooks-to-Go ended its 3x3 program in November 2023. For the President's Cup, only Filipino players are eligible to play but Filipinos with foreign heritage are also eligible provided they can prove their lineage. The league adopts the laxer FIBA 3x3 player eligibility meaning that heritage players don't need to have acquired
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