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and was tasked to compte in the 2018 The Terrific 12 tournament of the Asia League. They are also an applicant team seeking to play in the

ASEAN Basketball League The ASEAN Basketball League (ABL) is a professional men's basketball league in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong/Macau, which includes six teams from Southeast Asian nations (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam), one tea ...

. The team's namesake is its sponsor, iECO, an incinerator-waste management firm.

History

Two teams from the

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(PBA) were invited to compete in The Terrific 12 tournament of the

Asia Basketball League The East Asia Super League (Simplified Chinese:东亚超级联赛; Traditional Chinese: 東亞超級聯賽; Korean: 동아시아 슈퍼리그; Japanese: 東アジアスーパーリーグ), abbreviated as EASL, is a basketball league featuring cl ...

to take place from September 18 to 23, 2018 in

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but the PBA was unable to accept the invitation due to the tournament having scheduling conflict with the 2018 PBA Governors' Cup. Only one Philippine team was sent to the tournament; a selection team from the

. The Asia League decided to invite another team from the Chinese Basketball Association to fill in a berth initially intended for a second Philippine team.

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was tasked to coach the PBA D-League All Stars in The Terrific 12. The selection team competed as the "PBA D-League All Stars iECO Green Warriors". The team's roster was formed primarily of players from the finalists of the 2018 PBA D-League Foundation Cup, namely Che'Lu Bar and Grill Revellers and the Go for Gold Scratchers with

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and Sam Logwood as imports. The team had a tune-up match against the Philippine national team on September 9 at the Meralco Gym in

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which it lost 82-99. The iECO Green Warriors management has considered entering the 2018–19 ASEAN Basketball League season with the team's All-Stars participation in The Terrific 12 considered as a "try-out" for players of the team. By September 11, 2018, the management already applied for a franchise at the ABL. The franchise would have been owned by

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and

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should the application have gotten approved. Instead

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were the representatives for that season.

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