{"id":222585,"date":"2019-07-12T04:23:31","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T08:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=222585"},"modified":"2019-07-12T04:23:31","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T08:23:31","slug":"pba-player-of-the-week-is-tnt-guard-jayson-castro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/07\/12\/pba-player-of-the-week-is-tnt-guard-jayson-castro\/","title":{"rendered":"PBA Player of the Week is TNT Guard Jayson Castro"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_222589\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-222589\" style=\"width: 1875px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/66178790_2874013709281712_845408383153471488_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-222589 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/66178790_2874013709281712_845408383153471488_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1875\" height=\"1218\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-222589\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Currently, the KaTropa is facing nine wins and only one loss in the elimination round of the season, holding onto the number one spot entering the playoffs. (<a href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/pbaofficial\/photos\/a.2874013505948399\/2874013702615046\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/pbaofficial\/?tn-str=k*F\">PBA<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\">Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recent back-to-back wins for the Talk N\u2019 Text KaTropa in the 2019 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Commissioner\u2019s Cup have been highly led by point guard Jayson Castro, which is why \u201cThe Blur\u201d is the PBA Corps-Cignal Player of the Week from July 1 to 7.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the two recent games where the KaTropa triumphed over Rain or Shine and Blackwater, Castro averaged 14.0 points, 6.5 rebounds, and 7.5 assists per game, the two-time best point guard of Asia besting out 12 other players to become the unanimous choice. In the last match alone, the Pampanga-native led his team to an 18-point win as he had a double-double of 13 points and 10 assists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Among the other players who received votes from the PBA Press Corps include Columbian Dyip\u2019s Reden Celda and Barangay Ginebra\u2019s Stanley Pringle. Among the nominees include: TNT KaTropa\u2019s Roger Pogoy, Northport Batang Pier\u2019s Nico Elorde, Rain or Shine Elasto Painters\u2019 Mark Borboran, Barangay Ginebra\u2019s Japeth Aguilar, Columbian Dyip\u2019s CJ Perez and Rashawn McCarthy, and Blackwater Elite\u2019s Mike Digregorio, Bobby Ray Parks, and Ellein Maliksi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Currently, the KaTropa is facing nine wins and only one loss in the elimination round of the season, holding onto the number one spot entering the playoffs. Their next match is against the Magnolia Hotshots, which will be happening next Wednesday, July 17 at the Smart Araneta Coliseum.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent back-to-back wins for the Talk N\u2019 Text KaTropa in the 2019 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Commissioner\u2019s Cup have been &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-222585","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\/222585","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=222585"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222631,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222585\/revisions\/222631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}