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GUEVARRA STARS AS GREATS-STALWARTS ENDS IN STANDOFF
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It’s a night that really belonged to Meralco wingman Rey Guevarra.
Moments after emerging co-champion in the Slam Dunk competition, Guevarra went on with a great show and made his night extra special by winning the MVP honors in the 2014 PBA Legends Game that ended in a 136-all standoff.
The former Letran stalwart unloaded more dunking stuff and more as he scattered 34 points for the Atoy Co-mentored Team Greats that actually dominated most of the secondhalf.
But behind the scud missiles of Macmac Cardona, Ronjay Buenafe and Justin Melton, the Bogs Adornado-coach Team Stalwarts wiped out an 11-point deficit in the last four minutes and tied the game in the end.
Still, Guevarra stood out and became the third MVP winner of the PBA Legends Game after Ato Agustin in 2012 in Laoag and Kenneth Duremdes last year in Digos, Davao del Sur.
Guevarra, who shot 17 of 27 from the field and added four rebounds and two assists in 31 minutes off the bench, beat Meralco teammate Cliff Hodge for the award selected by a consensus vote between the PBA Press Corps, Sports 5 and the PBA Commissioner’s Office.
Retired players Noli Locsin, Freddie Abuda, Johnedel Cardel, Topex Robinson, Richard del Rosario, Franz Pumaren and Dickie Bachmann showed flashes of old brilliance before allowing the active players to slug it out at winning time.
Back-to-back treys by Melton and Buenafe tied the count at 136 with 19.5 ticks to go.
Then Team Greats played the clock before going to Willie Miller for the last shot that the two-time PBA MVP winner missed.
After Miller’s fade-away jumper off Cardona missed the mark, Hodge was actually underneath the basket for a possible putback.
But Hodge’s attempt went so short, and the game ended in a standoff to the applause of both sides and the cheering fans at the Mall of Asia Arena.
Hodge still came away with the first triple double and 20-20 game in the event’s history, finishing with 29 points, 21 rebounds and 10 assists.
It could well be a fitting appetizer to the PBA All-Star Game set Sunday in the same venue.
Among the losing participants in the slam-dunk contest, Hodge showed his outside shooting prowess in the Legends Game, converting three straight triples in the fourth quarter after missing his first attempts from the same area.
After sharing the Slam Dunk title with Guevarra, Melton also went on with his own show.
He tossed in 21 points for Team Stalwarts, hitting from afar and executing highlight slams.
Cardona and Buenafe paced Team Stalwarts with 31 and 22, respectively.
Locsin, meanwhile, topscored among the retired stars with 18 markers while adding 10 boards in the game where the count stood at 57-all at the half. (SB)
FULL boxscores of game HERE.
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