The Pasig City MPBL team is a Filipino professional

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team based in

Pasig Pasig, officially the City of Pasig (), is a highly-urbanized city in the National Capital Region of the Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 803,159 people. It is located along the eastern border of Metro Mani ...

. The team competes in the

Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League The Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL) is a men's regional professional basketball league in the Philippines composed of 30 teams. Founded in 2017 by eight-division boxing world champion and then-Senator Manny Pacquiao, the MPBL is ...

(MPBL) as a member of the league's

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. The team plays its home games at

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. The team's first incarnation was established in 1998 with the Pasig Blue Pirates of the

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(MBA), which ran until 2000. The Pirates would later be revived with an MPBL expansion team for the 2018–19 season. Pasig then took a leave of absence in 2024 before returning in 2025. The Pasig franchise is one of four teams based in the Eastern Manila District of

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. They also took part in

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and in the

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History

First incarnation (1998–2000)

Pasig's basketball franchise was established in 1998 with the Pasig Blue Pirates of the

. In 1999, the team was renamed as the Pasig-Rizal Pirates and would remain in the league until 2000.

Second incarnation (2018–present)

The Pasig Pirates were revived in 2018, when they became one of sixteen teams that were part of the

's national expansion for its 2018–19 season. The

Mark Andaya Mark Anthony Gozar Andaya (born March 22, 1981), also known as "Big Mac" or "Big Mak" is a Filipino professional basketball player and actor who last played for Pasig Pirates of the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL). He was drafted ei ...

-led Pirates finished with a league-worst 4–21 record. In the 2019–20 season, Sta. Lucia Land became the title sponsors of the Pasig franchise, becoming the Pasig Sta. Lucia Realtors, reviving the Realtors moniker used in the

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and

Pilipinas Commercial Basketball League Pilipinas Commercial Basketball League (also known as PCBL) was a commercial amateur basketball tournament based in the Philippines that catered to the development and grassroots program for future Filipino basketball players, inspired from the ...

. Ahead of the

2022 MPBL playoffs The 2022 MPBL playoffs was the postseason tournament of the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League's 2022 season, the league's fourth overall, and the third under the 16-team format. The postseason tournament began on October 15, 2022, two days ...

, the team gained the sponsorship of MCW Sports, an online sports news portal in the Philippines.

Personnel

Head coaches

Notable players

Metropolitan Basketball Association

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* Jonathan De Guzman * Jay Magat *

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* John Dumont

Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League

Season-by-season records

Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League

References

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