{"id":3230,"date":"2025-06-18T11:37:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T11:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinoystep.com\/?p=3230"},"modified":"2025-06-18T11:37:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T11:37:21","slug":"luanzon-fcaai-mvp-yap-bono-crack-mythical-first-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinoystep.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/18\/luanzon-fcaai-mvp-yap-bono-crack-mythical-first-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Luanzon FCAAI MVP; Yap, Bono crack Mythical First Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PBA champion Christian Luanzon will have another milestone to be added to his list of accomplishments &#8212; even after retiring playing professional basketball.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday night, Luanzon, who leads his alumni team St. Stephen High School in the Fil-Chinese Athletic Association Inc. 40-and-Up tournament, was chosen as the unanimous choice to win the Most Valuable Player award, joining an elite group that includes two-time PBA MVP James Yap, Ken Bono, Leo Canuday and Rhagnee Sinco of Hua Siong College of Iloilo.<\/p>\n<p>A member of the 2007 Alaska champion squad then being handled by Tim Cone, Luanzon brought his A-game in this tournament that has attracted attention from long-time basketball fans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Playing in your 40s, playing in high intensity games, especially down the stretch, magpa-practice, kakain after practice, and it turned out to be obviously, a competitive league,&#8221; said Luanzon. &#8220;We could wish the league more power in the seaosns to come. May the Lord bless our league.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PBA champion Christian Luanzon will have another milestone to be added to his list of accomplishments &#8212; even after retiring playing professional basketball. On Wednesday night, Luanzon, who leads his alumni team St. Stephen High School in the Fil-Chinese Athletic Association Inc. 40-and-Up tournament, was chosen as the unanimous choice to win the Most Valuable&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[307],"class_list":["post-3230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hoops-basketball","tag-fil-chi-basketball-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinoystep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinoystep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinoystep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinoystep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinoystep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pinoystep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3232,"href":"https:\/\/pinoystep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3230\/revisions\/3232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinoystep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinoystep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinoystep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinoystep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}