Alex Cabagnot

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Alex Cabagnot
No. 5 – San Miguel Beermen
Position Point guard / Shooting guard
League PBA
Personal information
Born (1982-12-08) December 8, 1982
Quezon City, Philippines
Nationality Filipino
Listed height 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Listed weight 180 lb (82 kg)
Career information
High school Eagle Rock (Los Angeles, California)
College
PBA draft 2005 Round: 1 / Pick: 2nd overall
Selected by the Sta. Lucia Realtors
Playing career 2005–present
Career history
2005–2007 Sta. Lucia Realtors
2007–2009 Coca-Cola Tigers
2009–2010 Burger King Whoppers
2010–2014 San Miguel Beermen/Petron Blaze Boosters
2014 GlobalPort Batang Pier
2014–present San Miguel Beermen
Career highlights and awards

Alex Cabagnot (born December 8, 1982) is a Filipino professional basketball player[1] currently playing for the San Miguel Beermen. He plays the point guard position. Alex once had a rivalry with Mark Caguioa for the Eagle Rock High School scoring record. He is also part of the coaching staff of the UP Fighting Maroons men's basketball team in the UAAP.[2]

Professional career

He was drafted by the Sta. Lucia Realtors, but after playing 2 seasons he was dealt to the Coca-Cola Tigers along with the aging Kenneth Duremdes and Ricky Calimag in exchange for Denok Miranda, Manny Ramos and Coca Cola's 2007 second round draft pick.

Cabagnot led all rookies during his rookie year in scoring (10.3 points per game), assists (4.7), steals (1.1) and minutes played (28.1). He was third in the league in the assist-to-turnover ratio (2.5) behind Jimmy Alapag and Johnny Abarrientos. The 6-0 southpaw is one of the prolific guards in his generation.

On January 5, 2010, he was traded to the Burger King Whoppers along with Wesley Gonzales, for Gary David and Chico Lanete. He played for several games with Burger King, finishing at the 8th spot of the 2009-10 PBA Philippine Cup. During the off-season of the 2009-2010 Fiesta Conference, he was traded to the San Miguel Beermen, for Mike Cortez.

As a Beermen, Cabagnot quickly emerged as the starting quarterback for the team. Cabagnot dropped game winning shots during eliminations earning his nickname "Crunch Time Cabagnot". He did it on Alaska Aces, B-Meg Derby Ace Llmados scoring a basket on crucial possession. During Game 1 of the 2010 - 2011 PBA Philippine Cup semifinals series against the crowd favorite Ginebra Gin Kings, Alex made a clutch basket leaving the Gin Kings with only over a second. This nailed the series to a 1 - 0 lead in favor of the Beermen. SMB eventually won the duel in six games 4 - 2. In 2011, Cabagnot together with Arwind Santos and Danny Ildefonso lead Petron Blaze Boosters to a Governor's Cup title by hacking out a 4-3 decider in 7 games, thus foiling the Grand Slam bid of Talk N Text & captured his first PBA crown as a player.

On February 18, 2014, he was part of a complex four-team, seven player trade which sent him to GlobalPort. With his new team, he reunites with old teammate Jay Washington and is expected to provide veteran leadership.[3]

He said, "(The trade) came a little bit as an ‘I-didn’t-see-it-coming,' but when it did sink in, I just have to be a pro, go to the next team and try to do what I did with Petron and my other teams before".[4]

In the playoffs of the 2014–15 PBA Philippine Cup, Alex Cabagnot was traded back to San Miguel for Sol Mercado.

On October 14, 2016 Cabagnot was recognized during the PBA Leo Awards Night as he was named to the PBA Mythcial Second Team.[5]

PBA career statistics

Legend
  GP Games played  MPG  Minutes per game  FG%  Field-goal percentage
 3P%  3-point field-goal percentage  FT%  Free-throw percentage  RPG  Rebounds per game
 APG  Assists per game  SPG  Steals per game  BPG  Blocks per game
 PPG  Points per game  Bold  Career high

Correct as of September 1, 2016[6]

Season-by-season averages

Year Team GP MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
2005–06 Sta. Lucia 35 28.1 .349 .226 .681 3.3 4.7 1.1 .3 10.3
2006–07 Sta. Lucia / Coca-Cola 45 33.3 .424 .322 .703 3.5 6.4 1.3 .2 10.9
2007–08 Coca-Cola 37 33.8 .343 .360 .667 3.0 4.6 1.1 .2 11.0
2008–09 Coca-Cola 32 37.0 .356 .240 .667 3.6 5.3 1.4 .4 10.8
2009–10 Coca-Cola / Burger King / San Miguel 50 23.0 .376 .250 .693 3.6 5.5 1.0 .3 10.2
2010–11 San Miguel / Petron 54 30.2 .395 .321 .728 4.2 5.8 1.0 .4 9.7
2011–12 Petron 46 35.5 .390 .384 .745 3.6 6.2 1.1 .3 13.4
2012–13 Petron 47 32.2 .407 .321 .747 3.7 5.1 1.2 .2 11.9
2013–14 Petron / San Miguel / GlobalPort 34 35.6 .378 .311 .696 4.4 6.2 1.3 .2 13.1
2014–15 GlobalPort / San Miguel 52 29.5 .366 .350 .705 4.5 4.7 .8 .1 11.1
2015–16 San Miguel 56 32.5 .404 .342 .745 3.6 4.0 1.0 .1 14.3
Career 488 31.6 .383 .324 .712 3.7 5.3 1.1 .2 11.5

References

  1. ↑ Castillo, Musong R. (7 January 2011). "Cabagnot late-game heroics rescue SMB". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved 17 February 2011.
  2. ↑ "Cabagnot looking to future as newest member of UP coaching staff". ABS-CBN Sports. September 4, 2016. Retrieved September 4, 2016.
  3. ↑ http://www.spin.ph/sports/basketball/news/petron-san-miguel-set-to-trade-alex-cabagnot-to-globalport-for-sol-mercado
  4. ↑ http://www.spin.ph/sports/basketball/news/globalport-new-boy-alex-cabagnot-admits-he-didnt-see-trade-coming
  5. ↑ "PBA Leo Awards 2016 Winners & Nominees (Complete List)". PinoyBoxBreak. Retrieved October 18, 2016.
  6. ↑ Player Profile at PBA-Online!

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