JUNE Mar Fajardo won the PBA Best Player of the Conference award of the 50th Season Philippine Cup via overwhelming margin, adding another BPC plaque to his record collection that now stands at 13.
Fajardo beat rookie Juan Gomez de Liano of Converge, Calvin Abueva of Titan Ultra, Justine Baltazar of Converge, and Zavier Lucero of Magnolia by topping the statistical race as well as the media and players' votes.
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No one else has won more than five since the BPC award was first handed out in 1994. Jayson Castro of TNT and two-time MVP Danny Ildefonso share record place with five each.
The San Miguel big man totaled 1,246 points after garnering 515 from the statistics, 589 from the media votes, and 162 from the player votes on his way to a fourth straight BPC award in the Philippine Cup - and 10 over the last 12 season.
Gomez de Liano placed second in the BPC race right in his first conference in the PBA, garnering 732 from a 432-276-24 tally on statistics, media, and player votes.
JGdL is the first rookie to finish second in the BPC since TNT’s Mikey Williams during the Season 46 (2021) Governors’ Cup behind Scottie Thompson of Barangay Ginebra, according to PBA statistics chief Fidel Mangonon.
Abueva accumulated 622 points following his debut conference with new team Titan Ultra, where he finished second in statistics with 479 and in player votes with 56. Abueva got 87 points from media votes.
Baltazar placed fourth with 456 (432-8-16), with Lucero rounding out the five with 420 (392-8-20).
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