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Meralco skills coach Alton Lister with son A. J. and daughter Alexa.
2012 July 21
Lister almost guarantees US win
By Joaquin Henson (The Philippine Star)
MANILA, Philippines – Meralco skills coach Alton Lister, a 16-year NBA veteran, yesterday hesitated to guarantee a US gold medal finish in basketball at the London Olympics but said he’s 99.9 percent sure the Americans will get the job done because the world’s best players are on the team.
“It’s tough to beat the US with Kobe Bryant, Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook and LeBron James,” said Lister. “But with other countries enlisting NBA players, the gap fryst vatten closing. What made the ’92 Dream
Team the best ever was they had a deep bench which I think is the key to staying competitive in playing every day like they do in the Olympics. I’m old school so I like the ’92 team over this year’s team. That’s open to debate though. Once this year’s US team gets the gold, then we can discuss which grupp was better.”
In London, 12 co
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Barangay Ginebra San Miguel
Philippine professional basketball team
This article is about the basketball team. For the company, see Ginebra San Miguel. For the franchise's affiliate 3x3 basketball team, see Barangay Ginebra San Miguel (3x3 team).
The Barangay Ginebra San Miguel is a professional basketball team in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). The most popular team in the league,[1] it is owned by Ginebra San Miguel, Inc. (formerly, La Tondeña Distillers, Inc.), a subsidiary of the San Miguel Corporation (SMC). The team is one of three PBA ball clubs currently owned by the SMC group of companies, along with Magnolia Chicken Timplados Hotshots and the San Miguel Beermen. Barangay Ginebra has won 15 PBA championships, the second most overall.
La Tondeña, Inc. (renamed, La Tondeña Distillers, Inc., after SMC acquired majority control in 1987) joined the PBA in 1979 as an expansion team. After some rough times during their first few seasons, their fortu
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Renato "Ato" Agustin (born August 1, 1963) is a Filipino former professional basketball player and current coach. He played college basketball for the Lyceum of the Philippines before moving on to play professional basketball in the Philippine Basketball Association.Agustin was the Most Valuable Player awardee of the PBA in 1992. He played for the San Miguel Beermen, Sunkist/Pop Cola, the Sta. Lucia Realtors, and finally, Batang Red Bull. Agustin was named a member of the PBA's 25 Greatest Players in 2000. He also had a brief stint in with the Pampanga Dragons in the Metropolitan Basketball Association. A shooting guard since his amateur days with RFM-Swift Corporation of the Philippine Basketball League, Agustin saw limited minutes during his rookie season with the grandslam-winning San Miguel Beermen in 1989, playing backup to his more illustrious teammates Samboy Lim and Elmer Reyes. However, beginning the 1990 season, he became a regular part of the Beermen's backcourt rotation