The Magnolia Beverage Masters is a Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) team. They are a member of the league since its inception in 1975 and hold the most PBA titles with 17.
For the last 20 years, the team was popularly known as the San Miguel Beermen, before their mother company took a major change and renamed the team as Magnolia, a name they carried during the mid-80's.
The team's franchise is owned by the Philippines' largest food and beverage conglomerate, San Miguel Corporation. Magnolia is one of three PBA ball clubs owned by SMC affiliates and subsidiaries. The others are the Purefoods Tender Juicy Giants and the Barangay Ginebra Kings.
After 20 years of carrying the San Miguel name, San Miguel Corporation radically changed the team name to Magnolia Beverage Masters starting the 2007-08 PBA season.
Prior to the change, they named Tanquincen as its permanent coach while they acquired Larry Fonacier from Red Bull. In the 2007 PBA Draft, Samigue Eman and Jonas Villanueva were taken in the first round.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Miguel_Beermen)
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