We continue to receive a lot of emails from our diehard PBA followers from all over the globe and this week, we’d like to give way again to some of them.
Peejay Pallagud would like to know who Billy Robinson is.
Billy Robinson is one of two Americans – the other being Cisco Oliver – who were allowed by the PBA to play even in All-Filipino tournaments in the early years of the league to somehow balance the competition. Robinson is a 6-7 center who suited up for Noritake. Because of his advantage in heft, Robinson was always among the league leaders then in scoring and rebounding. But even with the Americans’ help, Crispa and Toyota continued to have a stranglehold of the PBA championships back then.

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Alfredo Santillana is asking about the imports for the coming Fiesta Conference.

The Board of Governors has tasked the Commissioner’s Office to look into the feasibility of hiring Asian imports, or players who are citizens of FIBA-Asia member countries (excluding naturalized citizens), of course, with an eye on the talents who played in the FIBA-Asia championship. If the league decides to go this route, then a 6-8 height limit will be imposed.

However, if international commitments will mean that the best talents will be tied up and won’t be available for the Fiesta Conference, then the league will go to open recruitment, meaning teams can get whoever they want from any country, but with a height limit of 6-6.

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Messrs. Joel Antonio and Art Mabugat would like us to add more categories to our all-time list, so here goes:

ALL-TIME REBOUNDS LEADERS
1. Ramon Fernandez 8652 rebs
2. Abet Guidaben 8570
3. Jerry Codinera 7034
4. Alvin Patrimonio 6152
5. Philip Cezar 5834
6. Robert Jaworski Sr. 5367
7. Abe King 5222
8. Yoyoy Villamin 5163
9. Nic Belasco 4540
10. Terry Saldana 4538

ALL-TIME BEST FT PERCENTAGE
1. Ricardo Brown 87.6%
2. Allan Caidic 87.0
3. Ato Agustin 86.4
4. Ronnie Magsanoc 86.2
5. Alvin Patrimonio 85.7
6. Johnny Abarrientos 85.0
7. Olsen Racela 84.1
8. Bogs Adornado 84.0
9. Rudy Distrito 83.5
10. Jojo Lastimosa 83.3

ALL-TIME MOST MINUTES PLAYED
1. Ramon Fernandez 36,624 mins
2. Alvin Patrimonio 30,478
3. Abet Guidaben 29,577
4. Jerry Codinera 29,667
5. Robert Jaworski Sr. 28,915
6. Philip Cezar 28,127
7. Jojo Lastimosa 25,085
8. Atoy Co 24,395
9. Olsen Racela 24,255
10. Johnny Abarrientos 24,220

ALL-TIME SCORING LEADERS
1. Ramon Fernandez 18,996 pts
2. Abet Guidaben 15,775
3. Alvin Patrimonio 15,091
4. Atoy Co 12,994
5. Nelson Asaytono 12,268
6. Philip Cezar 12,077
7. Jojo Lastimosa 12,008
8. Bogs Adornado 11,967
9. Robert Jaworski Sr. 11,760
10. Allan Caidic 11,719

To Mr. Adrian Soriano, thanks for all the kind words. We’re here to be of service to all followers of the PBA.

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