The promotion also meant an escalation in his salary.īy simply being activated into the team roster, Forrester became eligible to receive the minimum player's salary of P70,000 under the Uniform Player’s Contract (UPC) which the team had to submit to the PBA Commissioner’s Office.Īs a practice player, the former first-round draft pick of Barangay Ginebra (taken at No. While he never got to see action in the two games he was on the Katropa bench, the change in status from practice player to a member of the active roster was certainly a world apart. His career average of 52.4 percent from the field speaks volume about his talent as a shooter.Īside from playing basketball, June Fajardo also owns a fitness center in Antipolo called Junie's Sports Center.JAMES Forrester recently made a brief PBA comeback by way of TnT Katropa in the 2019 Philippine Cup. Fajardo also has the record of being one of the best scorers in PBA history having scored over 2,000 points during his career. He has been named the Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the PBA All-Star Game four times, winning the award in 20. As a result, he earned himself a spot among the top echelon of PBA players.
Fajardo played a major role in helping TNT win all three of its titles in 2016, 2017, and 2018. In 2015, he signed with the TNT KaTropa where he won his first championship in 2016. In 2012, he was traded to the Magnolia Hotshots where he stayed for three seasons. His salary is $50,000 per month.įajardo started his career with the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) team San Miguel Beermen in 2011.
HIGHEST PAID PBA PLAYER PROFESSIONAL
He is the highest-paid Filipino professional basketball player in the country. June Fajardo, Mar June Mar Fajardo, born on November 17th, 1989, is the most popular and spectacular PBA player that earns the greatest money from the game. Who is the highest paid player in the PBA?ġ. There is no clear definition of what makes someone a "rookie", but generally speaking, people start their professional career when they are 21 years old. So, despite being older, James is still considered a rookie because he had never before played in an overseas league. However, there are some exceptions such as Philip Cetler who played for the Philippine national team in the 1974 Asian Games and 1972 Olympic Games, and Renato "Bobby" Dalmatio who played in the PBA during the 1990s.ĭurant turned 21 years old in January 2015 and James will be 23 in February. American players Kevin Durant (born 31 August 1988) and LeBron James (born 15 August 1984) are good examples of this. Nowadays, most players join the league when they are already teenagers, so it is not uncommon for them to have been playing basketball for several years already. However, research by PBA.net has since shown that he was actually born on January 4, 1992, making him only 18 years old. At the time, he was reported to be the PBA's youngest player, having joined at the age of 17. Player information Despite dominating the rookie statistical race, he was disqualified, and his namesake (but unrelated) Marte Saldana of San Miguel won instead.
In his only season in the PBA, Taulava averaged 4.5 points per game.
But when both of them got injured, he stepped up and started games at center for NLEX. At the time, NLEX had two other big men in Romelo "Mikko" Diokno and Renato "Bobby" Reyes, so they used Taulava mostly as a backup to Mikko and Bobby. In 1998, he finally made it into the PBA and played for the NLEX Road Warriors. After graduating from LSU with a degree in physical education in 1997, he had tryouts with several teams in the PBA but was not signed by any team. Taulava first came to prominence while playing for La Salle University, where he led the team to an NCAA championship in 1995. He scored 14 points off the bench for NLEX that night, as his team defeated San Miguel, 99-88. The 6'10" center has played in one PBA game so far, back in 1998. The PBA has no age limit for players who have retired from competition. Taulava, Pauliasi Pauliasi Taulava (born March 2, 1973), better known as Asi Taulava, is a Tongan-born Filipino professional basketball player with the Philippine Basketball Association's NLEX Road Warriors (PBA).
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