{"id":189186,"date":"2018-11-11T03:55:19","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T08:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=189186"},"modified":"2018-11-11T03:55:39","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T08:55:39","slug":"perkins-leads-pba-rookie-year-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/11\/11\/perkins-leads-pba-rookie-year-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Perkins leads PBA Rookie of the Year race"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_189187\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-189187\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/perkins-phoenix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-189187\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/perkins-phoenix.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/perkins-phoenix.jpg 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/perkins-phoenix-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-189187\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jason Perkins of Phoenix Fuel Masters (left) is the leader in the Philippine Basketball Association&#8217;s race for the Rookie of the Year honor. Photo shows Perkins during Friday night&#8217;s (November 9, 2018) game against the Meralco Bolts. (PNA Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Jason Perkins holds a comfortable lead over fellow La Salle alumnus, Jeron Teng, in the Philippine Basketball Association Rookie of the Year race.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the stats after the elimination round of the season-ending Governors&#8217; Cup, the Phoenix stretch-four has 23.4 statistical points (SP) after 34 games. He is actually included in the Top 30 among all players, ranking 26th overall.<\/p>\n<p>Alaska&#8217;s spitfire winger, on the other hand, is second among rookies with 18.3 SPs after 35 games.<\/p>\n<p>Blackwater&#8217;s Toto Jose is third with 14.0 SPs after 32 games, while Magnolia&#8217;s Robbie Herndon is fourth with 12.8. Rain Or Shine&#8217;s Rey Nambatac is not far behind with 12.2<\/p>\n<p>NorthPort&#8217;s Joseph Gabayni (sixth with 9.8 SPs) and Columbian&#8217;s Dan Sara (seventh with 6.4) are the other eligible players for the top freshman plum.<\/p>\n<p>These players have been in at least 70 percent of the total games their respective teams played up to the Governors&#8217; Cup eliminations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Jason Perkins holds a comfortable lead over fellow La Salle alumnus, Jeron Teng, in the Philippine Basketball Association Rookie &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":189187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189186","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\/189186","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}