Here's the second part of this little write-up that has (surprisingly) amassed a couple hundred views since its posting just a few days ago. Hope you enjoy and yes, comments/ rebuttals are most certainly welcome and will not be deleted/ screened.
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| The style. The hair. The Swag. Yeah, MC47's Jordan-like. |
5. Mark Caguioa (Barangay Ginebra Gin Kings)
Filipinos are a smiling, happy bunch. We celebrate the
littlest things, dance to the silliest of songs and laugh to the most awful
“Boy Pick-Up” joke known to mankind. The same could be said of our current crop
of professional basketball players, that they treat games as such, and are
sportsmen first (speaking in terms of majority the majority of course—so that
excludes San Beda’s fiery head coach Frankie Lim, and a couple years back, Rain
or Shine’s Yeng Guiao). But Caguioa isn’t like most. He’s cut from the same
cloth as PBA legends who would literally spit on their opponent’s face, throw
elbows and just mean mug fools all game long. This is where MC47 takes after
MJ—the swagger, the will to win, the hatred to lose and the enigmatic, kept
personality that either wins fans or throws them off. People love MJ for who he
is on television. But those who have played with or against him, despise him
(if you belong to today’s generation, think Kobe Bryant before his stint with
the USA Redeem Team).
