Manila Clasico
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Barangay Ginebra San Miguel Star Hotshots |
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| First meeting | April 5, 1988, ULTRA | ||||||||||||
| Latest meeting | April 9, 2017, Mall of Asia Arena | ||||||||||||
| Next meeting | TBA | ||||||||||||
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| Meetings total | 181 meetings | ||||||||||||
| All-time record | 97–84 (.536), Star | ||||||||||||
| Largest victory | 39 (157–118), Purefoods | ||||||||||||
| Longest win streak | 8, Purefoods (April 20, 1993–February 28, 1995) | ||||||||||||
| Current win streak | 3, Ginebra | ||||||||||||
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| PBA Finals | |
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| Series record | 1–1 (Tied) |
| Win-Loss record | 5–5 (Tied) |
| PBA Playoffs | |
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| Series record | 5–4 (Ginebra leads) |
| Win-Loss record | 13–12 (Ginebra leads) |
Manila Clasico refers to the rivalry between the two most popular professional basketball teams in the Philippines today, the Barangay Ginebra San Miguel and the Star Hotshots. The former represents the Ginebra San Miguel franchise while the latter carries the San Miguel Pure Foods franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).
The two teams have won a total of 22 championships: the Purefoods franchise taking 13, and the Ginebra franchise nine. However, as of the end of the 2015–16 PBA season, the Ginebra and Purefoods franchises have only met in the finals twice in the 29 seasons they have been together in the league. Head to head, they have an even PBA Finals record, 1–1.
While the rivalry traces all the way back to the 1980s, the name by which it is now well-known only came up in 2012, when online sports editor Jaemark Tordecilla called the Ginebra-Purefoods rivalry the Philippine basketball equivalent of the El Clásico football rivalry between Real Madrid and FC Barcelona. Tordecilla said that the rivalry “has been one of Philippine sports’ most underrated phenomena, because media has rarely hyped up the matchup” before. But the popularity of the two teams, their history, and the profiles of their original fanbase made the rivalry special and endure through the years.
The rivalry is said to have begun even before Purefoods entered the PBA. Ginebra playing coach Robert Jaworski had a simmering feud with former Toyota teammate Ramon Fernandez. The hostilities between two of the biggest stars in the league during that time started to peak in the 1986 PBA season. Jaworski’s Ginebra and Fernandez’s Tanduay Rhum Makers battled each other in the All-Filipino Finals. Fernandez led Tanduay to a 3–1 victory against Ginebra, but Jaworski would get his revenge when his team ended Tanduay Rhum’s grandslam bid with a 151–130 rout in the season’s third conference. Since then, whenever teams of Jaworski and Fernandez meet, the fans anticipate greater physicality and intensity because of their apparent hatred for one another. The Tanduay PBA franchise was eventually bought by Purefoods in 1988.
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