San Miguel Beermen

The San Miguel Beermen (colloquially known as SMB) are a Philippine professional basketball team owned by San Miguel Corporation. The team competes in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) and are the only active founding member, having been in the league since 1975.

The team won their first two championships at the 1979 Open Conference and the 1982 Invitational, but had their first run of domination from 1987 to 1994 with nine titles under head coach Norman Black with the likes of Ramon Fernandez and Ato Agustin. That run also included the first-ever Grand Slam in league history, with it occurring in the 1989 season. This is then followed by another six titles from 1999 to 2001 with Jong Uichico at the helm with Danny Ildefonso, Danny Seigle, and Olsen Racela leading the roster.

SMB's winning prowess slowed down as the 21st century started. Uichico left in 2006 and saw the team rotate between multiple head coaches to lead the team. They only won three titles between 2002 and 2014. In 2014, the team signed Leo Austria as head coach, and together with a roster led by June Mar Fajardo, Arwind Santos, and Alex Cabagnot, the team returned to its dominant form by winning 12 titles since 2015. During that run, the team won five straight Philippine Cups from 2015 to 2019, with the first three resulting in the team keeping permanent possession of the Jun Bernardino Trophy, becoming the second team to do so after the Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters (now TNT Tropang 5G) in 2013. That same Philippine Cup streak saw the Beermen become the first professional basketball team in history to overcome a 3–0 series deficit to win a best-of-seven playoff series which they did during the 2015–16 Philippine Cup Finals.

The Beermen are the most successful team in the PBA with 31 championships and over 1,400 all-time wins, both more than any other team in the league. They are also one of three teams under the SMC umbrella along with Barangay Ginebra San Miguel and the Magnolia Chicken Timplados Hotshots.