Wikipedia - Mindoro Disiplinados

The Mindoro Tamaraws are a Filipino professional basketball team based in Mindoro island. The team primarily competes in the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL) as a member of the league's South Division. They are the lone team based in the Mimaropa region and play their home games at Sentrong Pangkabataan in Calapan, Oriental Mindoro.

The team began play during the 2019–20 season. The franchise also competed in NBL–Pilipinas as the Mindoro Tamaraws Disiplinados during the 2021 Chairman's Cup.

They also have a junior counterpart in the Mindoro Junior Disiplinados, which compete in the Junior MPBL.

History

Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League

Logo of the Mindoro Disiplinados used during the 2023 season.

The Mindoro Tamaraws joined the MPBL as an expansion team for the 2019–20 season, backed by 7A Sports and with Justin Tan as the team owner In the Tamaraws' inaugural season, the team finished 12th in the South with a 9-21 record. In April 2020, actress and Pola mayor Jennifer "Ina Alegre" Cruz became co-owner of the team.

In the 2021 MPBL Invitational, Mindoro was able to make the playoff tournament by placing second in Group D. The team would go on to lose to the eventual Invitational champion Basilan Jumbo Plastic in the quarterfinals. Despite the great performance, in the 2022 season, the Tams finished with the worst record in the league, only getting one win in 21 games.

Heading into the 2023 season, the team was renamed the Oriental Mindoro Disiplinados; it would be changed partially to Mindoro Disiplinados in June 2023. On July 4, 2023, the Disiplinados played its first-ever home game in the Sentrong Pangkabataan. Later in the month, the team joined the Junior MPBL with the Mindoro Junior Disiplinados, the team was previously the junior team of the Caloocan Batang Kankaloo.

National Basketball League

In 2021, a second team dubbed as the Mindoro Tamaraws Disiplinados was formed for the NBL–Pilipinas which is meant to a more homegrown-oriented team as opposed to the MPBL team which is intended to be the "showcase team".

Scheduled Pilipinas Super League participation

In October 2023, the Disiplinados were announced as one of the new teams for the Pilipinas Super League's 2023–24 President's Cup, where team would supposedly participate under the name RCP Pola Disiplinados–Shawarma Shack.

During the opening ceremonies, however, there was no mention of the Disiplinados. The team would move forward as the RCP–Shawarma Shack Demigods.

民都洛水牛是菲律賓職業籃球隊,是菲律賓籃球協會(PBA)的參賽隊伍之一。該隊成立於1998年,是民都洛省的第一支職業籃球隊。水牛隊的主場位於民都洛省的卡拉潘市。

水牛隊在PBA的歷史上取得了巨大的成功,他們曾五次奪得總冠軍,分別是在2000年、2001年、2006年、2011年和2016年。水牛隊也是PBA歷史上第一支三連冠球隊。

水牛隊陣中擁有許多優秀的球員,其中最著名的球星包括:

* 阿倫·阿布雷亞(Arran Afflalo)
* 賈馬爾·克勞福德(Jamal Crawford)
* 卡梅隆·安東尼(Carmelo Anthony)
* 德懷恩·韋德(Dwyane Wade)
* 克里斯·保羅(Chris Paul)

這些球星的加盟使水牛隊成為PBA中最具競爭力的球隊之一。

除PBA聯賽外,水牛隊還經常參加國際籃球比賽,他們曾多次代表菲律賓參加亞洲籃球錦標賽和世界籃球錦標賽。水牛隊在國際賽場上也有著不俗的表現,他們曾多次獲得獎牌。

水牛隊是菲律賓籃球的驕傲,他們是菲律賓籃球的代表之一。他們在PBA聯賽和國際賽場上的成功,為菲律賓籃球贏得了巨大的榮譽。