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    Fonacier honors RDO: 'Hands down the best stretch 4 I’ve ever played with'

    Fonacier pays tribute to RDO by posting funny TNT commercial
    Apr 13, 2020
    PHOTO: jaime campos

    TRIBUTES poured following news that Ranidel de Ocampo announced his retirement on Monday. One of them was Larry Fonacier, who posted a video of perhaps one of the funniest commercials involving PBA players.

    The commercial released in 2017 showed De Ocampo, still playing for TNT at that time, wanting to have a unique monicker of his own aside from his initials “RDO.”

    Fonacier, who now plays for NLEX, was part of the commercial along with TNT star Jayson Castro. They have the monickers “Baby Face Assassin” and “The Blur” respectively.

    De Ocampo rattled off suggested nicknames to Fonacier, Castro, along with Manny V. Pangilinan through call, through crowdsourcing from Facebook such as "Ranidelightful" and "Ocampo Carne."

    In the end, De Ocampo was convinced that his “RDO” nickname is enough after Pangilinan said there is nothing wrong with having his initials as a monicker.

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    In his post, Fonacier thanked the Meralco veteran, having learned a lot from him when they were teammates at TNT.

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      “Thank you R.D.O. Hands down the best stretch 4 I’ve ever played with. What a privilege it was to learn from you everyday, and to see you win the greatest games for our team. Most of the time without even showing any emotion,” wrote Fonacier, who were also teammates during their memorable run with Gilas in the 2013 Fiba Asia Championship.

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