St Lucia Realtors
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Wikipedia - Pasig City MCW Sports
Pasig City MCW Sports was a Filipino professional basketball team based in Pasig. The team last competed in the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL) and played their home games at both Pasig Sports Center and Ynares Sports Arena.
The team's first incarnation was established in 1998 with the Pasig Blue Pirates of the Metropolitan Basketball Association (MBA), which ran until 2000. The Pirates would later be revived with an MPBL expansion team for the 2018–19 season. Since the 2022 MPBL playoffs, the team has been sponsored by MCW Sports, an online sports news portal in the Philippines.
The Pasig-based franchise also took part in FilBasket and in the Chooks-to-Go Pilipinas 3x3.
History
First incarnation (1998–2000)
Pasig's basketball franchise was established in 1998 with the Pasig Blue Pirates of the Metropolitan Basketball Association. 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 Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League's national expansion for its 2018–19 season. The Mark Andaya-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 Philippine Basketball Association and Pilipinas Commercial Basketball League.
St. Lucia Realtors er kjent for sin fartsstil med spill og høye scoringer. Laget har hatt en rekke bemerkelsesverdige spillere gjennom årene, inkludert Danny Ildefonso, Kerby Raymundo, Marlou Aquino og Mark Caguioa.
I 2020 kunngjorde St. Lucia Realtors at de ville trekke seg fra PBA på grunn av økonomiske problemer forårsaket av COVID-19-pandemien. Laget vendte imidlertid tilbake til ligaen i 2021.
St. Lucia Realtors' nåværende hovedtrener er Topex Robinson. Lagets kaptein er Marc Pingris.