{"id":126847,"date":"2017-10-27T01:23:24","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T05:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=126847"},"modified":"2017-10-27T01:23:24","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T05:23:24","slug":"louie-alas-named-new-phoenix-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/27\/louie-alas-named-new-phoenix-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Louie Alas named new Phoenix coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_126848\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-126848\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20664729_1546696305451144_3380232492122459274_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-126848\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20664729_1546696305451144_3380232492122459274_n.jpg\" alt=\"The Fuel Masters named Louie Alas as their new mentor replacing Ariel Vanguardia. (Photo: Louie Alas\/Facebook)\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20664729_1546696305451144_3380232492122459274_n.jpg 480w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20664729_1546696305451144_3380232492122459274_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20664729_1546696305451144_3380232492122459274_n-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-126848\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Fuel Masters named Louie Alas as their new mentor replacing Ariel Vanguardia. (Photo: Louie Alas\/Facebook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong> \u2014 The 2017 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) season may not be over yet, but Phoenix is already looking forward to the 2018 season by replacing its coach on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Fuel Masters named Louie Alas as their new mentor replacing Ariel Vanguardia.<\/p>\n<p>Alas is not new to winning titles in the professional league as he won a title for the Manila Metrostars in the MBA in 1999 and the Philippine Patriots in the ABL in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Alas also has a PBA head coaching experience under his belt as he coached the TNT KaTropa, formerly the Mobiline Phone Pals, from 2000-01. This season, Alas is deputy to Coach Alex Compton.<\/p>\n<p>Joining Alas in his coaching staff is Topex Robinson, who recently led Lyceum to an 18-0 sweep of the elimination round of the NCAA, giving the team an outright finals slot in only its first playoff appearance.\u00a0<em><strong>(PNA)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2014 The 2017 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) season may not be over yet, but Phoenix is already looking forward &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":126848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[29696,29697,29698,728],"class_list":["post-126847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-2017-philippine-basketball-association-pba","tag-fuel-masters","tag-louie-alas","tag-phoenix","mauthors-ivan-stewart-saldajeno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}