Philippines Behind Only China and US in NBA Social Network Followers

The Philippines is behind only China and the US and the world’s the top NBA follower on social networking sites.

Outside China and the US, the Philippines has the most Facebook followers of the NBA, ahead of Turkey, Indonesia, Mexico and France.

The island nation leads Indonesia, Brazil, the United Kingdom and India in terms of twitter followers.

Around 280 million fans follow the NBA on social networking sites worlwide.

Miami Heat’s Filipino-American, Erik Spoelstra, coach said: “The one thing about the Philippines is they are rabid basketball fanatics, and it’s been that way for a while. They’ve been following us now for the last couple years as well.”

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