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At the last minute, the “Last Home Stand” All-Star Charity Event featuring basketball players from the NBA and Gilas Pilipinas was cancelled. But not before organizers tried to salvage the event by demonstrating a live practice at the Smart Araneta Center on Tuesday night, July 22. According to some reports, the participating NBA players were threatened with sanctions if they played in a non-NBA game. Hundreds of disappointed fans, some of whom paid as much as P20,000 for tickets, booed the practicing players. PLDT Vice President for HOME Ariel Fermin said fans would get a full refund beginning Wednesday. In a press conference held after the event, PLDT CEO Manny V. Pangilinan said he was “extremely disappointed” with how everything turned out and apologized to basketball fans. The event promoters, East West Private, said that ‘Last Home Stand was never advertised as a game.’
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