The Cebu Greats is a Filipino professional basketball team based in the Metro Cebu. The team competes in the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL) as a member of the league's South Division. The team has played its home games across multiple venues across Metro Cebu.
The team began play in the 2018–19 season as the Cebu City Sharks, then renamed as the Cebu Sharks the following season.
The team then went on hiatus for five years before making a return for the 2025 MPBL season as the Cebu Classic, before an ownership change in the middle of that season saw the franchise rebrand as the Cebu Greats. The Cebu franchise is one of two teams based in Visayas, the other being the Bacolod Tubo Slashers, and the lone team based in the Central Visayas region.
History
2018–2020: First stint
The Cebu City Sharks were one of sixteen expansion teams in the 2018–19 MPBL season, as well as the first team based in
Visayas. That season saw Cebu make the playoffs despite having a losing record, they eventually lost to the Davao Occidental Tigers. In the 2019–20 season, the team finished ninth, one game behind the eighth-place team in the South Division, the
Bicol Volcanoes. The Cebu franchise also had an all-star selection in each of its first two seasons: Patrick Cabahug in 2019 and
Will McAloney in 2020.
2025–present: Second stint
The Cebu franchise was mentioned as among the teams that were set to return for the league's 2023 season,
however its return did not materialize for unknown reasons. Two years later in 2025, another attempt at Cebu's return to the MPBL was first reported by journalist
Snow Badua, stating from his source that the franchise was bought by new management and that it is "finalizing details” for its revival.
The revival will be managed by Voltaire Ora, who was previously the team manager of the Valenzuela Classic. Among the players joining the revived team are
Paulo Hubalde and
Rashawn McCarthy.
was also set to join, but eventually turned away from the team.
Team roster
Current roster
Head coaches
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Notable players
MPBL All-Star Day
All-Star selections
PBA players
Ex-PBA players
Season-by-season records
Note: Statistics are correct as of the end of the 2025 MPBL season.
| MPBL champions | Division champions | Playoff berth
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| Cebu City Sharks |
| 2018–19 | South | 9 | Division quarterfinals | lost vs. Davao Occidental, 0–2 |
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| 2019–20 | South | 11 | Did not qualify |
| Did not participate from 2022 to 2024 |
| Cebu Greats |
| 2025 | South | 14 | Clinched play-in; did not qualify playoffs |
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