Victor Pablo

Victor Pablo
FEU Tamaraws
Position	Barangay Ginebra Kings
As coach:
2011–present	FEU Tamaraws (assistant)
Career highlights and awards
	4x PBA champion (1998 Governors', 1999 All-Filipino, 2003 All-Filipino, 2008 Fiesta); 4x PBA All-Star (1993, 1994, 1998, 1999); Mythical First Team (2002); Mythical Second Team (1998); PBA Slam Dunk Champion (1994);

Victor Pablo (born August 8, 1970) is a retired Filipino professional basketball player in the Philippine Basketball Association.^[1]

Playing career

A former king Tamaraw at

Pepsi in exchange for center Manny Victorino. At Pepsi, he rejoined coach Derrick Pumaren, his former coach at Triple-V Foodmasters

during his PBL days.

After two seasons with the Mega Bottlers, Pablo would be involved in two trades in the 1995 PBA season, first with Alvin Teng, whom San Miguel dealt to Pepsi to acquire Pablo and towards the end of the 1995 PBA Governors' Cup eliminations, he was traded by the Beermen to Formula Shell for Paul Alvarez.^[2]^[3]

In 1998, Pablo was one of the final cuts in coach Tim Cone's

Philippine Centennial Team

. Vic made up for the non-inclusion to the Asian Games squad by having an outstanding season with Formula Shell. He earned his first PBA championship in a six-year career when Shell won the season-ending Governors Cup.

He was traded to

Mobiline Phone Pals for Mark Telan at the beginning of the new millennium. In 2003, finally free from injuries, Pablo stepped up big and helped the Phone Pals win their first title in the All-Filipino Cup Championship

.

Pablo was later on traded to

Barangay Ginebra Kings

in 2008, where he finally got to play for the team that drafted him. He won a championship ring for the Kings during the Fiesta Conference. After his one season stint w/ Ginebra, he decided to call it quits.

Coaching career

Pablo later served as one of the assistant coaches for the FEU Tamaraws.^[4]

PBA career statistics

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

^[5]

Season-by-season averages

Year	Team	GP	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
1993	7-Up / Pepsi	43	34.0	.494	.222	.810	6.6	1.3	.1	.7	13.5
1994	Pepsi	38	29.4	.511	.318	.715	4.8	1.1	.1	.3	13.2
1995	San Miguel	33	20.8	.493	.286	.703	3.4	.9	.0	.5	9.4
1995	Formula Shell	13	29.7	.445	.400	.733	5.3	1.2	.2	.2	9.4
1996	Formula Shell	63	31.0	.487	.000	.756	5.8	1.3	.2	.6	12.1
1997	Formula Shell	46	39.5	.473	.125	.812	7.2	2.6	.4	.7	17.4
1998	Formula Shell	61	32.4	.469	.357	.771	5.7	2.0	.3	.8	11.6
1999	Formula Shell / Shell	55	40.3	.454	.304	.793	6.1	1.7	.2	.8	15.3
2000	Mobiline	24	—	.435	.361	.777	9.9	2.8	.3	.7	19.8
2001	Mobiline / Talk 'N Text	31	33.0	.403	.204	.750	4.7	1.5	.2	.6	9.7
2002	Talk 'N Text	47	23.1	.412	.452	.737	4.8	1.1	.2	.4	8.1
2003	Talk 'N Text	46	26.7	.394	.321	.768	4.5	1.5	.4	.6	9.2
2004–05	Talk 'N Text	75	31.2	.451	.324	.804	6.4	.9	.2	.2	11.4
2005–06	Talk 'N Text	33	22.4	.428	.383	.722	3.2	.8	.2	.2	8.9
2006–07	Talk 'N Text	43	12.2	.339	.250	.889	1.9	.5	.0	.2	2.4
2007–08	Barangay Ginebra	10	7.9	.391	.250	—	1.8	.2	.0	.0	2.0
Career		661	30.2	.457	.330	.771	5.3	1.4	.2	.5	11.3