Barangay Ginebra San Miguel

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Barangay Ginebra San Miguel is a professional basketball team in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). It is owned by Ginebra San Miguel, Inc. (formerly, La Tondeña Distillers, Inc.), a subsidiary of the San Miguel Corporation (SMC), and is one of three PBA teams owned by SMC, along with the Magnolia Chicken Timplados Hotshots and the San Miguel Beermen. Regarded as the most popular team in the PBA, they are best known for their resilience and large fan following, as well as for their "Never Say Die" spirit. Barangay Ginebra has won 16 PBA championships, the second most overall behind the San Miguel Beermen. La Tondeña, Inc. (renamed, La Tondeña Distillers, Inc., after SMC acquired majority control in 1987) joined the PBA in 1979 as an expansion team. After some rough times during their first few seasons, their fortunes changed when veterans Robert Jaworski and Francis Arnaiz arrived in 1984, following the disbandment of the famed Toyota Tamaraws. With new players like Jaworski being...

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