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ANC’s basketball league kicks off today

CANDABA – The Anak ng Candaba (ANC) - local party here   here will formally open its second inter-barangay basketball league today.

More than 66 teams from the 33 barangays in this town  comprising of seniors and juniors basketball enthusiasts joined the league.

This sports activity is expected to end early next year according to the organizers taking into consideration the numbers of participating teams.

Diony Guevarra, one of the convenors of ACM and league organizers stressed that the league is aimed at improving the athletic ability of the youth in the same manner as they develop discipline, camaraderie and sense of belongingness among the players in various barangays.

It can be noted that since last year, Mayor Jerry Pelayo with the help of some professional basketball coaches like Coach Aric del Rosario has been sponsoring sports clinic to provide opportunities to Candabenios  who wanted to pursue careers in bigger league in the country.

ACM is a local party organized by Patrick “Pat” Pelayo who is running for mayor under the Kapanalig at Kambilan neng Memalen Pampanga (Kambilan).

This local party is envisioned to establish a society that will promote partnership development in the municipality on all sectors. It was also the intention to establish a democratic and centralized political structure that will protect and look up to the welfare of every individual in the municipality.

Kapampangan joins NBA D-league

CITY OF SAN FERNANDO – A Kapampangan professional basketball player was recently drafted by the Santa Cruz Warriors in the NBA Developmental (D) League.

Japeth Paul Cabrera Aguilar, 25, a native from Sasmuan town was the first ever Filipino to be included in the said league after he was picked in the seventh round by the Santa Cruz Warriors, the D-League affiliate of the Golden State Warriors in the NBA.

Aguilar also  played for the Ateneo Blue Eagles in the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) in 2004.

He consequently moved to the Western Kentucky University Hilltoppers in the Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association(NCAA) in the United States.

He entered the NCAA as a junior (third year) in 2007.

Aguilar returned to the Philippines and played with the Powerade Team Pilipinas that participated in the 2009 Fiba Asia Championship for Men held in Tianjin, China.

He was a former first round draft pick in the PBA and played with Talk n Text, and Smart Gilas

In 2009, the Burger King Whoppers got him  as its overall No.1 draft pick in the 2009 PBA Draft.

However after the draft, he declared that he would be joining the Smart Gilas Pilipinas developmental basketball program coached by Serbian Rajko Toroman. He was even banned from league for refusing to sign a contract with the Whoppers.

An amicable settlement, Aguilar signed the one-year contract with the Whoppers, which included him playing for a few games with them then he would be traded to Talk n Text which would then release him to Smart Gilas as he wanted.

Aguilar played his only professional game with the Whoppers against the Purefoods Tender Juicy Giants in the PBA season opener.

Kapampangan joins NBA D-league

CITY OF SAN FERNANDO – A Kapampangan professional basketball player was recently drafted by the Santa Cruz Warriors in the NBA Developmental (D) League.

Japeth Paul Cabrera Aguilar, 25, a native from Sasmuan town was the first ever Filipino to be included in the said league after he was picked in the seventh round by the Santa Cruz Warriors, the D-League affiliate of the Golden State Warriors in the NBA.

Aguilar also  played for the Ateneo Blue Eagles in the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) in 2004.

He consequently moved to the Western Kentucky University Hilltoppers in the Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association(NCAA) in the United States.

He entered the NCAA as a junior (third year) in 2007.

Aguilar returned to the Philippines and played with the Powerade Team Pilipinas that participated in the 2009 Fiba Asia Championship for Men held in Tianjin, China.

He was a former first round draft pick in the PBA and played with Talk n Text, and Smart Gilas

In 2009, the Burger King Whoppers got him  as its overall No.1 draft pick in the 2009 PBA Draft.

However after the draft, he declared that he would be joining the Smart Gilas Pilipinas developmental basketball program coached by Serbian Rajko Toroman. He was even banned from league for refusing to sign a contract with the Whoppers.

An amicable settlement, Aguilar signed the one-year contract with the Whoppers, which included him playing for a few games with them then he would be traded to Talk n Text which would then release him to Smart Gilas as he wanted.

Aguilar played his only professional game with the Whoppers against the Purefoods Tender Juicy Giants in the PBA season opener.