For this PBA Commissioner's Cup 2014, James Yap's team San Mig Coffee Super Mixers for the third time won another PBA Finals after defeating the Talk N Text tropang texters, 3-1. San Mig spoiled TnT who set a record in the elimination and semis without any defeat for having a 13-0 win-loss record. Only Crispa (2 grand slams 70s to the early 80s), Great Taste (1984-85), the 1989 San Miguel Beer and Alaska (1996 and 1997-98) have grand slam record in PBA. If ever San Mig will win another one they will then have their first ever team grandslam. Tim Cone once again have another record, wherein he has now 17 championships under his name (the most in PBA), thanks to his main men Yap, Barroca, Simon, Pingris, De Vance, and import James Hays. Now for this post we are showcasing some of the top ten list of facts about San Mig's main man James Yap.TOP : 10
James' Fact : There is a Taiwanese basketball player also named as James Yap.
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| James Yap of Taiwanese national team |
TOP : 9
James' Fact : James real and complete name is James Carlos Agravante Yap, Sr..
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| Arwind Santos and James Yap |
TOP : 8
James' Fact : James Yap is a 2-time Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) MVP.
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| James Yap MVP trophy award |
TOP : 7
James' Fact : In 2003 Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games), he led the Philippine Team to a gold medal finish.
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| Philippine athletes SEA games |
TOP : 6
James' Fact : James is the first Purefoods (former name of San Mig) player since Alvin "The Captain" Patrimonio to win the MVP award.
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| Alvin Patrimonio and James Yap |
TOP : 5
James' Fact : James Yap and Nelson Asaytono (former PBA player also known as "The Bull") are the only two players in the PBA to score back to back 40 points in 2 consecutive games.
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| Scottie Pippen and Nelson Asaytono |
TOP : 4
James' Fact : James' team San Mig Coffee(1st seed) was beaten by the Powerade Tigers (8th seed) in the quarterfinals of the PBA Philippine Cup (2011-2012). For the record it is the only the 3rd time in PBA history that the lowest seed team eliminated the top seed team.
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| Powerade Tigers (former PBA team) |
TOP : 3
James' Fact : James Yap, Arwind Santos, Alex Cabagnot and other Coffee Mixers players declined the invitation to join Smart Gilas 2.0 National Team program because of personal reasons.
TOP : 2
James' Fact : James has two popular nicknames in the PBA, thus, "Big Game James" and the "Man with a million moves".
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| Yap firing a three |
TOP : 1
James' Fact : James Yap has 26 individual basketball career achievements and 12 team achievements, totalling a 38 awards and achievements under his jersey.
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| PBA Mythical 5 - from left, David, Caguioa, Santos, Yap, de Ocampo |
Data Source :
- www.en.wikipedia.org
- pba.inquierer.net
- gmanetwork.com
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Please be noted that the top 10 that we are including here in our blog are all unofficial rankings unless otherwise noted. Most of the top ten lists are based on Google search results and collected mainly from different blogs and websites around the internet world.
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