{"id":206197,"date":"2019-03-11T22:04:05","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T02:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=206197"},"modified":"2019-03-11T22:04:05","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T02:04:05","slug":"picks-for-nbtc-all-star-game-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/03\/11\/picks-for-nbtc-all-star-game-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Picks for NBTC All-Star Game revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Kai Sotto has been named Team Captain of Team Hustle and Joel Cagulangan as team Captain of Team Heart. Watch them next week as they pick their teammates for this coming NBTC All-Star Game!” (Photo<\/a>: SM NBTC League<\/a>\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>All-Star captains Ateneo Blue Eaglet Kai Sotto and La Salle Greenie Joel Cagulangan will be heading Team Heart and Team Hustle for the 2019 Chooks-to-Go SM-National Basketball Training Center (NBTC) All-Star Game with the entire lineups for both teams announced for the upcoming event at the SM Mall of Asia (MOA) Arena on Saturday, March 23.<\/span><\/p>\n

Team Hustle, which the University Athletics Association of the Philippines (UAAP) Season 81 Sotto is a part of, will be led by Rain or Shine Elastopainters assistant coach Chris Gavina. In the lineup chosen by the 7-foot-2 star are: University of Santo Tomas (UST) guard Mark Nonoy, National University (NU) guard Gerry Abadiano, Ateneo de Manila University center Geo Chiu, and NU shooter Terrence Fortea. NU\u2019s Kevin Quiambao, Far Eastern University-Diliman\u2019s RJ Abbarientos, Jose Rizal University\u2019s John Amores, Mapua University\u2019s Jonnel Policarpio, Ateneo\u2019s Forthsky Padrigao, UST\u2019s Bismarck Lina, and Mapua\u2019s Clint Escamis made the cut as well. <\/span><\/p>\n

As team captain, Sotto is confident, telling his teammates in Filipino, \u201cWe will go to the NBTC All-Star Game and we will fight and win.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

As for Cagulangan, who was the National Collegiate Athletic Association\u2019s (NCAA’s) Season 94 Most Valuable Player, he chose Carl Tamayo from NU, Inand Fornilos and Joshua David of La Salle Greenhills, and Hope Christian Academy\u2019s Harvy Pagsanjan. He will also be joined by Joem Sabandal of Adamson University, Aaron Fermin of Arellano University, Paolo Hernandez and Dan Aches of Mapua, Joshua Yerro of University of Visayas, Mac Guadana of Lyceum of the Philippines University, and Rafael Go of Chiang Kai Shek College to complete Team Heart. Charles Tiu is the head coach, but Cagulangan is also ready to lead his team, encouraging them, \u201cWe will play with heart at the NBTC All-Star Game.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

NBTC has been running for 12 years, gathering the best high school players from four different leagues. This year, for the first time in history, the NBTC chose two of the top-ranked young basketball stars not only to create their own NBTC roster but to choose their coaches as well.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All-Star captains Ateneo Blue Eaglet Kai Sotto and La Salle Greenie Joel Cagulangan will be heading Team Heart and Team …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":206199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","mauthors-gianna-llanes","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206197","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=206197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}