Guard JD Cagulangan turns emotional after serving to UP win one other UAAP championship in his closing season.–MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.internet
MANILA, Philippines—One other UAAP star contemporary off a finals stint is heading to the Korean Basketball League.
Only a day after La Salle’s two-time MVP Kevin Quiambao introduced he’s enjoying for the Goyang Sono SkyGunners, College of the Philippines standout JD Cagulangan is certain for the KBL as nicely.
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Cagulangan, who was hailed Finals MVP after main the Preventing Maroons to the UAAP Season 87 males’s basketball championship on the expense of Quiambao and the Inexperienced Archers, has reportedly joined the Suwon KT Sonicboom.
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The 24-year-old guard was stuffed with gratitude as he bid farewell to UP, which he additionally helped finish its 36-year title drought in dramatic style two years in the past when he drained the buzzer-beating triple for the championship.
Suwon isn’t any stranger to having Filipino imports after buying the providers of former Ateneo swingman Dave Ildefonso, whose contract with the Korean membership ended earlier this yr.
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The KT Sonicboom, this time, may have the luxurious of getting a two-time champion in Cagulangan, who averaged 11.75 factors, 4.94 assists, 4.31 rebounds and 1.69 steals per recreation in his closing season with UP.
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Cagulangan had 12 factors, two rebounds, 4 assists and three steals in his final recreation for the Maroons. He averaged 13.67 factors, 4.33 rebounds, 4.67 assists, 1.33 steals, and 0.67 blocks within the championship spherical.
Cagulangan and Quiambao joined fellow Filipino reinforcements in Carl Tamayo, Justin Gutang, Migs Oczon and SJ Belangel.
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