June Mar Fajardo, the Philippine Basketball Association’s only six-time Most Valuable Player, is looking more and more like himself.
“Physically, I can see that he is 100 percent of his old self,” coach Leo Austria told the Inquirer over the phone, minutes after wrapping up practice Tuesday night in Batangas.
Fajardo was out all of last year because of a broken shin, and the Beermen fell in their defense of the Philippine Cup in the Pampanga bubble with Barangay Ginebra winning over TNT in the title series.
With Fajardo back, Austria believes he has the best center in the league once again—and the nucleus that sowed fear on the opposition in the last decade.
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