The Philippine Basketball (–foul word(s) removed–)ociation have already named the newest members of the PBA for the 2013-2014 Season as the PBA Rookie Draft was held successfully on Sunday, November 3, 2013. at the Robinson’s Place in Ermita, Manila.
Cebuano’s Greg Slaughter became the first pick overall of the 2013 PBA Rookie Draft as he was chosen by Barangay Ginebra. The acquisition of Slaughter by Ginebra will give the PBA’s crowd favorite team to experience once again having a dominant big man in the league after the glory days of Marlo Aquino ended.
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This year’s No. 2 draft pick went to Governor’s Cup champion team, San Mig Coffee Mixers who got the service of big man Ian Sangalan, while the No. 3 pick went to Rain or Shine getting the service of Letran’s big man Raymond Almazan.
An unexpected turn of events took place when the No. 4 pick was traded by Barako Bull to Ginebra for Rico Maierhofer and Willie Wilson, the Kings then selected former Arellano standout James Forester. Barako Bull also traded their No. 5 pick for Mark Isip and Magi Sison from Petron, the Boosters in turn sent to Globalport for sophomore Yousef Taha, the Batang Pier then selected FEU star Terrence Romeo.
Here’s the complete Results of the 2013 PBA Rookie Drafts:
First Round:
1. Barangay Ginebra San Miguel – Greg Slaughter
2. San Mig Coffee Mixers – Ian Sangalang
3. Rain or Shine Elasto Painters – Raymond Almazan
4. Barangay Ginebra San Miguel (from Barako Bull) – James Forrester
5. GlobalPort Batang Pier (from Barako Bull via Petron) – Terrence Romeo
6. GlobalPort Batang Pier (from Barako Bull) – RR Garcia
7. GlobalPort Batang Pier – Isaac Holstein
8. Alaska Aces – Ryan Buenafe
9. Rain or Shine Elasto Painters – Alex Nuyles
10. San Mig Coffee Mixers – Justin Chua
Second Round:
1. GlobalPort Batang Pier – Nico Salva
2. Rain or Shine Elasto Painters – Jeric Teng
3. San Mig Coffee Mixers – Justin Melton
4. Barako Bull Energy Colas – Jeric Fortuna
5. Talk ‘N Text Tropang Texters (from Alaska) – JP Erram
6. Air21 Express – Eric Camson
7. Talk ‘N Text Tropang Texters – Robby Celiz
8. Alaska Aces – Chris Exciminiano
9. Rain or Shine Elasto Painters – Gayford Rodriguez
10. Barako Bull Energy Colas – Carlo Lastimosa
Third Round:
1. Air 21 – Joshua Webb
2. GlobalPort – Jopher Custodio
3. Barako Bull- Darwin Cordero
4. GlobalPort (from Ginebra)- LA Revilla
5. Petron – Sam Marata
6. Meralco – Anjo Caram
7. Talk ‘N Text – Eliud Poligrates
8. Alaska – Raymund Ilagan
9. Rain or Shine Ervic Vijandre
10. San Mig Coffee – JR Cawaling
Fourth Round:
1. GlobalPort – P(–foul word(s) removed–)
2. Air 21 – Angelo Ingco
3. Barako Bull – Jett Vidal
4. Ginebra – John Usita
5. Petron: Nate Matute
6. Meralco: Mike Parala
7. Talk ‘N Text – Oping Sumalinog
8. Alaska – P(–foul word(s) removed–)
9. Rain or Shine – P(–foul word(s) removed–)
10. San Mig Coffee – P(–foul word(s) removed–)
Fifth Round:
1. Air 21 -Randolph Chua
2. GlobalPort – P(–foul word(s) removed–)
3. Barako Bull – Mike Silungan
4. Ginebra – Alvin Padilla
5. Petron – P(–foul word(s) removed–)
6. Meralco – Mark Lopez
7. Talk ‘N Text – Byron Villarias
8. Alaska – P(–foul word(s) removed–)
9. Rain or Shine – P(–foul word(s) removed–)
10. San Mig Coffee – P(–foul word(s) removed–)
Sixth Round:
1. GlobalPort – P(–foul word(s) removed–)
2. Air 21 – P(–foul word(s) removed–)
3. Barako Bull – P(–foul word(s) removed–)
4. Ginebra – Jens Knuttel
5. Petron – P(–foul word(s) removed–)
6. Meralco – Ron Guevarra
8. Alaska – P(–foul word(s) removed–)
9. Rain or Shine – P(–foul word(s) removed–)
10. San Mig Coffee – P(–foul word(s) removed–)
Seventh Round:
1. GlobalPort – P(–foul word(s) removed–)
2. Air 21 – P(–foul word(s) removed–)
3. Barako Bull – P(–foul word(s) removed–)
4. Ginebra – P(–foul word(s) removed–)
5. Petron – P(–foul word(s) removed–)
6. Meralco – Mark Bringas
8. Alaska – P(–foul word(s) removed–)
9. Rain or Shine – P(–foul word(s) removed–)
10. San Mig Coffee – P(–foul word(s) removed–)
Greg Slaughter (Photo: PBA Image/Nuki Sabio)
