{"id":176160,"date":"2018-08-11T02:17:22","date_gmt":"2018-08-11T06:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=176160"},"modified":"2018-08-11T02:17:22","modified_gmt":"2018-08-11T06:17:22","slug":"ginebra-takes-pba-commissioners-cup-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/08\/11\/ginebra-takes-pba-commissioners-cup-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Ginebra takes PBA Commissioner&#8217;s Cup title"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_176169\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-176169\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Ginebra-1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-176169\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Ginebra-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Ginebra-1-1.jpg 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Ginebra-1-1-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-176169\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PBA CHAMPS. Barangay Ginebra is back as the PBA Commissioner&#8217;s Cup champion after 21 years. The Gin Kings edged San Miguel Beermen, 93-77. (Photo courtesy of PBA Media Bureau via PNA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; After 21 years, Ginebra is back as the PBA Commissioner&#8217;s Cup champion.<\/p>\n<p>The Barangay finally got their first title in the mid-season conference in the post-Robert Jaworski era, edging the San Miguel Beermen, 93-77, in Game 6 of the finals in front of more than 20,000 people at the Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay City on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Ginebra used a 27-8 third quarter blast to pull away for good from SMB, which lost the best-of-seven series, 2-4, in its title defense.<\/p>\n<p>Justin Brownlee, who will be back for the season-ending Governors&#8217; Cup, led the Barangay, exploded in the second half and finished with 31 points, 19 rebounds, seven assists, four blocks, and two steals.<\/p>\n<p>The Barangay last won the Commissioner&#8217;s Cup championship as the Gordon&#8217;s Gin Boars with Jaworski as head coach.<\/p>\n<p>Greg Slaughter added 13 points, nine rebounds, two assists, one block, and one steal, while Scottie Thompson chipped in 12 points, 13 rebounds, five assists, and one block.<\/p>\n<p>Junemar Fajardo made 29 points, 15 rebounds, and one steal for the Beermen, which was deprived of a chance to go two-thirds complete in their quest for a grand slam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; After 21 years, Ginebra is back as the PBA Commissioner&#8217;s Cup champion. The Barangay finally got their first title &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":176169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","mauthors-ivan-stewart-saldajeno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176160","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=176160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}