MANILA, Philippines – NLEX won its back-to-back PBA D-League championship recently but for the second straight time the Most Valuable Player award went to the player from a different team.
And Boyet Fernandez, whose squad swept Freego Jeans in the best-of-three Finals series, just wouldn’t let this one pass without backing up whom he thought was the conference’s best player.
“My heart goes to RR (Garcia), we expected RR to be the MVP, we’ve been robbed twice already,” said Fernandez, also pointing out that one of his players should have took home the plum last season.
Garcia got beat out by Cebuana Lhuillier’s Vic Manuel while in the previous conference, Allein Maliksi of Cebuana Lhuillier bested Calvin Abueva for the individual honor....
In the second edition of the PBA Developmental League, we saw new teams, new faces, and some not-so-new ones. Straight from the courtside, here are some of the things you should remember about this conference.
NLEX goes back-to-back
Surprise, surprise. The team everybody else thought was an unstoppable force did prove to be one....
MANILA, Philippines - The NLEX Road Warriors stood their ground in the face of Freego Jeans Makers last-ditch move to stay alive, hacking out an 89-75 decision to capture the PBA D-League Aspirants’ Cup crown at The Arena in San Juan yesterday.
The Road Warriors overcame the Jeans Makers’ tough challenge to complete a two-game sweep of the best-of-three series for their second straight championship following their Foundation Cup title conquest.
NLEX clobbered Freego Jeans, 75-51, in Game One Friday....
MANILA, Philippines—By this time, there’s no doubt he’s primed for the big league.
Vic Manuel, the unassuming but hardworking Cebuana Lhuillier forward, finally found the confidence to join this year’s PBA Rookie Draft after copping another individual honor.
Winning isn’t new for the 24-year-old Manuel, but it’s only now that he declared his intention to join the pros after capturing the Most Valuable Player award in the PBA D-League Aspirants Cup Tuesday....
The NLEX Road Warriors try to wrap up the best-of-three championship series Tuesday against Freego Jeans and claim their second consecutive crown in the PBA D-League Aspirants Cup.
The 3 p.m. encounter at The Arena in San Juan is expected to be an all-out battle with NLEX shooting for a sweep and Freego fighting for survival and force a Game 3.
“We are determined to end it in Game 2,” said NLEX coach Boyet Fernadez....
MANILA, Philippines – NLEX won its back-to-back PBA D-League championship recently but for the second straight time the Most Valuable Player award went to the player from a different team.
MANILA, Philippines - The NLEX Road Warriors stood their ground in the face of Freego Jeans Makers last-ditch move to stay alive, hacking out an 89-75 decision to capture the PBA D-League Aspirants’ Cup crown at The Arena in San Juan yesterday.
MANILA, Philippines—By this time, there’s no doubt he’s primed for the big league.