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    Alfrancis Chua now a two-time winner of PBA Executive of the Year award

    Chua joins RSA, MVP, Uytengsu, Vargas, Bernardino, Yanga as two-time winners
    Jun 20, 2022
    Alfrancis Chua first won the PBA Executive of the Year award in 2018.
    Alfrancis Chua first won the PBA Executive of the Year award in 2018.
    PHOTO: Jerome Ascano

    ONE of the men behind another Barangay Ginebra title romp in the PBA Governors' Cup will be recognized with one of the major honors in the 2022 PBA Press Corps Awards Night on Tuesday at the Novotel Manila Araneta Center.

    Team governor Alfrancis Chua is the recipient of the season’s Danny Floro Executive of the Year following the work he did with the Gin Kings during the recently concluded Season 46, which saw the franchise win the import-laden conference for the fourth time in the last five years.

    This marks the second time the Ginebra executive will receive the award named after the late Crispa Redmanizers team manager and owner.

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    Chua, who is also San Miguel Corporation sports director, first won the plum in 2018.

    He now joins the likes of SMC president and chief executive officer Ramon S. Ang, First Pacific Company Ltd managing director and chief executive officer Manny V. Pangilinan, current PBA chairman Ricky Vargas, Alaska team owner Wilfred Uytengsu, the late commissioner Jun Bernardino, and former RFM franchise team manager Elmer Yanga as among the two-time recipients of the award handed out by the men and women regularly covering the PBA beat.

    Hampered by injuries to key players Joe Devance, Aljon Mariano, Jared Dillinger, and later on Japeth Aguilar, the Kings found their title retention bid in jeopardy after ending up as the No. 6 heading to the playoffs of the season-ending conference.

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      But behind Best Import Justin Brownlee and Best Player of the Conference Scottie Thompson, the Kings overcame twice-to-beat and reigning Philippine Cup champion TNT in the quarterfinals, before defeating NLEX in the semis to advance in the best-of-seven title series against Meralco.

      The consensus underdogs against the souped-up Bolts, the Kings again defied the odds and beat their long-time rivals, 4-2, to keep their stranglehold on the conference they first won in 2016.

      Chua joins the season’s honor roll that includes Arwind Santos (Defensive Player of the Year), June Mar Fajardo (Comeback Player of the Year), Allein Maliksi (Quality Minutes), Mikey Williams (Scoring Champion), Joshua Munzon, Jamie Malonzo, Calvin Oftana, Williams, and Santi Santillan (All-Rookie Team), the quartet of Williams, Ian Sangalang, Robert Bolick, and Matthew Wright (Order of Merit) and teams San Miguel and NorthPort (Game of the Season).

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      The choice for the Virgilio ‘Baby’ Dalupan Coach of the Year is yet to be announced, with champion mentors Chot Reyes of TNT and Tim Cone of Barangay Ginebra contending for the award.

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      Alfrancis Chua first won the PBA Executive of the Year award in 2018.
      PHOTO: Jerome Ascano
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