Purefoods Basketball

The transfer of the Purefoods franchise to Petron has been approved by the PBA. The team still under San Miguel Corp. will use the Petron brand in the 36th Season of the PBA which starts on October 3, 2010 at the Araneta Coliseum. The PBA will be back to its old 3-conference format, the All-Filipino and 2 short Import-reinforced tournaments.

What would be a good name for the new Petron Basketball Team?
- Petron Oilers?
- Petron Diesel Max?
- Petron Blazers?

Post your suggestions!

Leo Awards 2010 – 35th PBA Annual Awards

James Yap (Most Valuable Player and 1st Mythical Team)

Rico Maierhofer (Rookie of the Year)

Marc Pingris and Roger Yap(Not in Picture) (All-Defensive Team)

Roger Yap(Not in Picture) (2nd Mythical Team)

Other Awards:
LA Tenorio (Most Improved Player)
Cyrus Baguio (Sportsmanship Award)
1st Mythical Team (J.Yap/Washington/Santos/Tenorio/Thoss)
2nd Mythical Team (R.Yap/Cardona/Williams/Devance/Taulava)
All-Defensive Team (R.Yap/Pingris/Norwood/Reyes/Santos)

Congratulations to James Yap as he was named Most Valuable Player for the 35th Season of the PBA during the PBA Annual Awards at the Araneta Coliseum. Yap received his 2nd MVP Award, the 1st was in the 2005-2006 Season.

In his emotional acceptance speech, Yap, dedicated his award to his son, Baby James (James Aquino Yap Jr.)

35th Philippine Basketball Association Annual Awards
Wednesday, August 11, 2010, 5:15pm, Araneta Coliseum

Candidates for Most Valuable Player (MVP)
James Yap
Jay Washington
Kelly Williams
Arwin Santos
Asi Taulava
Gabe Norwood
Mac Cardona
LA Tenorio

Candidates for Rookie of the Year (ROY)
Rico Maierhofer
Josh Urbiztondo
Jervy Cruz
Ronnie Matias
Chris Ross

Candidates for Most Improved Player (MIP)
Alex Cabagnot
JC Intal
Joe Devance
Solomon Mercado
Ranidel de Ocampo
LA Tenorio
Ronald Tubid

Candidates for Sportsmanship Award
Nino Canaleta
Cyrus Baguio
Dondon Hontiveros
Gabe Norwood
Ryan Reyes

* image above is from pba.ph

According to reports, Coach Ryan Gregorio has accepted the Head Coach Position for the upcoming Meralco team in the PBA, he will also have an executive position in Meralco along with coaching the team.

Coach Ryan has been with Purefoods/Derby Ace since 2002 as interim coach and 2003-2010 as head coach winning 3 championships in 4 finals appearance including the historic 4-0 sweep in the last Philippine Cup. Gregorio is also a three-time PBA All-Star Coach (2005/2008/2010) and a two-time PBA Coach of the Year Awardee (2002/2006)

It was also reported that Assistant Coach Jorge Gallent will handle the new Petron Team (former Derby Ace/Purefoods) but this still needs confirmation.

We want to thank Coach Ryan and Good luck in his new position.

I have been a big fan of Purefoods since 1988, and this news is really sad for all the fans of the franchise. I have been holding this news since posting it would make it real but now it is time. Purefoods will say goodbye to the PBA, unless the new owners will buy another PBA franchise in the future (which is unlikely to happen), we will never see a Purefoods Team in the PBA.

With the new owners of Purefoods not interested in the PBA franchise, San Miguel keeps its third franchise but cannot use Purefoods anymore, they can retain the B-Meg Derby Ace Llamados but there are reports that they will use the Petron brand in the next conference.

I am still thinking of changing the name of this site as this has been known as purefoodsbasketball.com since 2008, even though the core of the team is still intact with the name change it maybe hard to support a different team name.

Goodbye Purefoods!

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Philippine Basketball Association
2010 Fiesta Conference Battle for 3rd Place
B-Meg Derby Ace Llamados vs Talk N Text Tropang Texters
Friday, August 6, 2010, 5pm, Araneta Coliseum

Alaska Aces defeats Talk N Text Tropang Texters, 90-81 to setup a showdown in the PBA finals vs San Miguel Beermen, while B-Meg Derby Ace Llamados will now face Talk N Text Tropang Texters for 3rd place in 1 game playoff this Friday at 5pm. Derby Ace hopes to finish the PBA 35th season on a high note.

Derby Ace players Rico Maierhofer and James Yap also has a chance to win Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player awards, respectively which will be awarded before Game 3.

Please support our team in their last game this 35th Season.