Aug 13, 2018

Brownlee a marked man in his quest for fourth straight title

Four-year NBA veteran Mike Harris is suiting up with the Alaska Milk Aces and completes the roster of imports mixing it up in the PBA Governors Cup that fires off Friday at the Ynares Sports Center in Antipolo.

GlobalPort's Rashad Woods and Columbian Dyip's Akeem Wright are the two other newcomers pitting their wares against tested PBA imports in the season-ending tourney where Barangay Ginebra and import Justin Brownlee chase a three-peat feat.

Banking on old tested imports like Ginebra are Meralco with Allen Durham, San Miguel Beer with AZ Reid, Rain or Shine with J'Nathan Bullock, TNT KaTropa with Mike Glover, Phoenix Petroleum with Eugene Phelps, Blackwater with Henry Walker, Magnolia with Romeo Travis and NLEX with Oluseyi Ashaolu.

It's an explosive cast led by former Best Import winners in Brownlee, Durham and Reid.

Brownlee embarks on a journey to win a third straight Governors Cup title and fourth in all counting their just concluded Commissioner's Cup title run.

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Durham, the Best Import winner in 2016 and 2017, will have another tour of duty with the Meralco Bolts, and they hope to finally finish on top after back-to-back runner-up finishes.

Brownlee and Durham provided great shows in their classic face-offs in the last two Governors Cup.

Ginebra coach Tim Cone, however, said it is Brownlee who would surely be everybody's target with his perfect 3-of-3 PBA finals success.

Cone said they would need a different scheme in the Governors Cup with Brownlee up against imports who can match up with him, unlike in the Commissioner's Cup where the Ginebra import dominated bigger import rivals with his quickness and outside shooting.

One big challenge could come from Harris, an NBA D-League champion and MVP winner in 2010, and NBA campaigner for four seasons with the Houston Rockets, the Washington Wizards and the Utah Jazz.

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From the NBA, he brought his act to Puerto Rico and China where he won championships for his ball clubs

He was two-time champion and two-time Finals MVP with Leones de Ponce in Puerto Rico and one-time champ in China with the Sichuan Blue Whales.
Coming to Manila, Harris was fresh from his stint with Al-Riyadi Beirut in the Lebanese league.(SB)