{"id":79139,"date":"2026-09-25T04:56:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T09:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/25\/55000-fans-and-nowhere-to-hide-what-its-like-to-play-in-basketballs-biggest-arena\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T04:56:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T09:56:31","slug":"55000-fans-and-nowhere-to-hide-what-its-like-to-play-in-basketballs-biggest-arena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/25\/55000-fans-and-nowhere-to-hide-what-its-like-to-play-in-basketballs-biggest-arena\/","title":{"rendered":"55,000 fans and nowhere to hide: what it\u2019s like to play in basketball\u2019s biggest arena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sprawling Philippine Arena hosts games in a country of fanatical basketball fans. Jamie Malonzo was lucky enough to play there in a Game 7<\/p>\n<p>Jamie Malonzo got there early, one of the first players to arrive. He knew this was a different thing altogether. He knew the 55,000-capacity Philippine Arena was something else.<\/p>\n<p>As Malonzo warmed up, the crowd began to file into the stands for Game 7 of the PBA Commissioner\u2019s Cup. Fans tried to get his attention, yelling and waving their arms madly. This game, Malonzo knew, would be unlike any other he had ever played in.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/sep\/25\/philippine-arena-basketball-arena-capacity\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sprawling Philippine Arena hosts games in a country of fanatical basketball fans. Jamie Malonzo was lucky enough to play there in a Game 7 Jamie Malonzo got there early, one of the first players to arrive. He knew this was a different thing altogether. He knew the 55,000-capacity Philippine Arena was something else. As &#8230; <a title=\"55,000 fans and nowhere to hide: what it\u2019s like to play in basketball\u2019s biggest arena\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/25\/55000-fans-and-nowhere-to-hide-what-its-like-to-play-in-basketballs-biggest-arena\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 55,000 fans and nowhere to hide: what it\u2019s like to play in basketball\u2019s biggest arena\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}