Before the first-ever collection of professional players from the NBA, known as the Dream Team, represented the United States in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, the Philippines, bannered by PBA stars and coached by Robert "Sonny" Jaworski, became the first country in world basketball history to send an all-professional team to an international competition.
The historic basketball moment happened 30 years ago during the 11th edition of the Asian Games in Beijing, China. The open basketball era was in its infancy stage back then. Yet, the Philippine national team already carried the hopes of over 61 million Filipinos.
With just two weeks of training and preparation, the national side that had four-time Most Valuable Player Ramon Fernandez taking the lead as the senior citizen of the team finished second behind host China.
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List of Wansapanataym episodes
| Season (s) | Episodes | Originally aired |
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| Season premiere | Season finale |
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| 1 | 28 | September 11, 2010 (2010-09-11) | March 26, 2011 (2011-03-26) |
| 2 | 38 | April 2, 2011 (2011-04-02) | December 31, 2011 (2011-12-31) |
| 3 | 41 | January 7, 2012 (2012-01-07) | November 3, 2012 (2012-11-03) |
| 4 | 31 | November 10, 2012 (2012-11-10) | June 22, 2013 (2013-06-22) |
| 5 | 48 | June 29, 2013 (2013-06-29) | June 8, 2014 (2014-06-08) |
| 6 | 83 | June 15, 2014 (2014-06-15) | November 1, 2015 (2015-11-01) |
| 7 | 172 | November 8, 2015 (2015-11-08) | April 7, 2019 (2019-04-07) |
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