{"id":200846,"date":"2019-02-05T03:20:40","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T08:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=200846"},"modified":"2019-02-05T03:20:40","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T08:20:40","slug":"after-5-games-back-in-the-pba-kevin-alas-tears-acl-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/02\/05\/after-5-games-back-in-the-pba-kevin-alas-tears-acl-again\/","title":{"rendered":"After 5 games back in the PBA, Kevin Alas tears ACL again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_200848\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-200848\" style=\"width: 870px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/51387546_284331992259527_3295483339128963072_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-200848 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/51387546_284331992259527_3295483339128963072_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"870\" height=\"870\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-200848\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;We hope you join us and continue to support Kevin as he overcomes this challenge as well. #ArangkadaAlas&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ArangkadaNLEX\/?epa=SEARCH_BOX\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ArangkadaNLEX\/?__tn__=kC-R&amp;eid=ARC-PPdgoOWeQvBJwjPec8-C-lDrG_xFy9BlXvAjmHzXTWtFoAuPPYQIuzYbI7PuQNODW1azdAH-Q062&amp;hc_ref=ARQEageVwqsjMmLMJxiyty492zoffNZ4y2GRBaxuTLINjoCizKBJ5T27HRsrMizgLXw&amp;fref=nf&amp;__xts__[0]=68.ARD0ETb_fs2gfgCSoMVjxSoDTCG13uT-GD1vLRnbsQ_k7N0NpzCqhvVAymeo72ktDuKXaoG-kQTjcvf0UlbbcK6Poy0OUQ87VtPBPf5nVo7WujjZxR908G32hlATSW0PRi47IJ1u2f3d5O01SL6U6c7CuTqLNNnbYwxxTg9XWO0UX7pADVyso57hiOm5Nb9YpxVvZHmjxkGOvn8_cMQdbcj-Ukz93dQDuqCxw3A8XbHGfUGz7YYHJHP5x0GORRhD-z9zM6qEXlzFp8-ifAwji2uVfeeg6ihjJ5rz8w1kWVfiKq5w3TLIMXwUjJ918AM2_F-VzldOZzmK_i5lAQz84Oc\">NLEX Road Warriors<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\">Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twenty-seven-year-old Kevin Alas had returned to playing for the NLEX Road Warriors five games into the 2019 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Philippine Cup when he landed in pain during a rebound battle with Meralco big man Cliff Hodge. The guard was stretchered out of the Ynares Center in Antipolo, the same venue where he had torn his anterior cruciate (ACL) the first time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A few hours after the incident, the NLEX Road Warriors management confirmed, \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We regret to inform the public that Kevin Alas sustained an ACL injury on his right knee during our February 2 game against the Meralco Bolts. Our medical team is set to confirm the extent of the injury through MRI results on Tuesday, February 5,\u201d adding, \u201cThis is the same knee which was injured in last year\u2019s Philippine Cup. According to our medical team, Kevin will be out of action for several months as he goes through another round of surgery and therapy. We thank our fans for supporting Kevin during his 2018 recovery. It is no secret that Kevin worked extremely hard to get back in fighting form for the 2019 PBA season. His therapists, coaches, teammates, and entire NLEX Road Warriors family are all witnesses to his patience, perseverance and desire to play the sport he loves.\u201d The team ended the statement, saying, \u201cWe hope you join us and continue to support Kevin as he overcomes this challenge as well.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a response to his player\u2019s injury, NLEX head coach Yeng Guiao shared in Filipino, \u201cWe are all sad &#8211; not just the players, coaching staff, management, even our families are devastated of what happened because Kevin is like family to us.\u201d He added, \u201cWe are all praying for Kevin. We are supporting him all the way. We will be patient with him. We\u2019ll wait for him until he gets back.\u201d Guiao, who was Kevin\u2019s second coach in his professional career, also told the media, \u201cWe know that he\u2019s a strong boy \u2013 he has a strong personality and we know he can come out of this. We will just keep supporting him. We can only offer our prayers and encouragement.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-seven-year-old Kevin Alas had returned to playing for the NLEX Road Warriors five games into the 2019 Philippine Basketball Association &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports","mauthors-gianna-llanes","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200846","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=200846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}