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Rey Evangelista

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Rey Evangelista
Member of the
Ormoc City Council
from the Lone district
In office
June 30, 2022
Personal details
Born (1971-12-28) December 28, 1971 (age 52)
Ormoc City, Leyte, Philippines
Political partyPDP–Laban (2021–present)
Basketball career
Personal information
NationalityFilipino
Listed height6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Listed weight190 lb (86 kg)
Career information
CollegeUST
PBA draft1994: 1st round, 2nd overall pick
Selected by the Coney Island Ice Cream Stars
Playing career1994–2008
PositionSmall forward
Number7
Career history
As player:
1994–2008Purefoods
As coach:
2008–2010B-Meg Derby Ace Llamados (assistant)
Career highlights and awards
As player:

As assistant coach:

Rey Evangelista (born December 28, 1971) is a Filipino retired professional basketball player who played for Purefoods franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association during his entire career. He was a one-time Best Player of the Conference awardee in 2002.[1] He was known as a great defensive player and a left-handed shooter. He is now a politician who serving as a city councilor for Ormoc City.

Player profile

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Rey hails from Ormoc, Leyte.[2] He started out as a volleyball player during his high school days at St. Peter's College. He shifted to basketball because people noticed he is a high leaper and is also good at positional plays. Rey completed a course in Agribusiness at the Visayan State College of Agriculture and played for the VSCA team that was crowned champion of the State Colleges and Universities Athletic Association Region 8 meet.

He tried out at University of Santo Tomas and made it to the Glowing Goldies lineup under coach Aric del Rosario. Rey is a masteral student at UST and a cousin of UST's big boy Raymond Fran. He saw action for Nikon Home Appliances in the Philippine Basketball League in 1993 and turn pro in the following year.

Rey was the second overall pick in the 1994 PBA draft, chosen by Purefoods TJ Hotdogs. In his first season, Rey was the only rookie included in the Philippine team that went to Hiroshima, Japan for the Asian Games.[3] Most fans and the PBA press corps believes he should be the season's rookie of the year and Rey had a lot of sympathizers when his name was not called during the PBA annual awards night. He spent all of his 14 seasons in the PBA with the Purefoods franchise and retired from active playing in 2008.[4]

PBA career statistics

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Legend
  GP Games played   GS Games started  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

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Season-by-season averages

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Year Team GP MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
1994 Coney Island / Purefoods 58 28.8 .487 .000 .747 5.5 1.5 .6 .6 9.6
1995 Purefoods 61 28.4 .528 .000 .792 4.6 1.8 .3 .5 8.0
1996 Purefoods 57 26.2 .519 .500 .595 5.4 1.4 .7 .4 7.2
1997 Purefoods 63 23.4 .495 .000 .650 4.5 .9 .5 .3 7.2
1998 Purefoods 59 25.2 .552 .167 .707 4.4 1.5 .6 .3 7.0
1999 Purefoods 41 36.2 .508 .333 .644 6.9 2.0 .9 .7 9.1
2000 Purefoods 55 31.8 .414 .250 .719 7.5 1.6 .8 .5 7.0
2001 Purefoods 44 35.5 .503 .000 .714 7.1 2.1 1.1 .4 10.3
2002 Purefoods 42 27.4 .386 .341 .694 4.1 2.6 .7 .2 7.3
2003 Purefoods 25 27.2 .279 .460 .579 5.9 1.4 1.0 .2 8.0
2004–05 Purefoods 64 24.2 .433 .247 .672 5.2 1.3 .7 .1 6.3
2005–06 Purefoods 27 16.7 .386 .333 .756 3.8 1.0 .6 .2 3.9
2006–07 Purefoods 41 19.6 .454 .143 .699 4.4 .8 .4 .1 5.4
2007–08 Purefoods 28 10.5 .508 .400 .545 2.6 .4 .4 .0 2.9
Career 665 26.4 .466 .313 .693 5.2 1.5 .7 .3 7.3

References

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  1. ^ "Umaatikabong Game 5 ng Alaska at Purefoods". Philstar.com.
  2. ^ "Rey Evangelista back where he belongs as he leaves Big City life". Spin.ph.
  3. ^ "Purefoods trio makes AG five". Manila Standard.
  4. ^ "Long-time Purefoods forward Evangelista retires". GMA News.
  5. ^ "Rey Evangelista Player Profile - PBA-Online.net". PBA-Online.net. Archived from the original on March 16, 2016.
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