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Stanley Pringle led a generous loot for Barangay Geneva at the PBA Virtual Night of Special Awards held on Sunday.
The 33-year-old won the 2020 PBA Philippine Cup Best Conference Player (BPC) award, becoming the first Gin King player since Greg Slaughter at the 2016-17 Governor’s Cup to take home the trophy. .
Pringle was a picture of consistency for Geneva and averaged 18.5 points, 5.9 rebounds, 3.7 assists, 1.0 steals in 22 games. He shot 44.3 percent from the field, 38.3 percent from 3s and 89.1 percent from free throws in 36.1 minutes per game.
Behind Pringle, Geneva finished the tie with an 8-3 record, defeating Rain or Shine and Meralco in the semi-finals and quarter-finals, and handled business against TNT in five games in the best-of-seven series.
Pringle defeated Matthew Wright and Calvin Abueva of Phoenix, Ray Parks and Roger Pogoy of TNT and CJ Perez of Terrafirma to also become the first player since Jayson Castro at the 2012-13 Philippines Cup to win the award outside of June Mar Fajardo of San Miguel.
The two-time PBA champion was also included in the Elite Five for the 2020 season along with his teammate Japeth Aguilar, Wright, Abueva and TNT’s Poy Erram.
Meanwhile, his teammate, Prince Caperal, was hailed as this year’s Most Improved Player (MIP) after beating his best season to date with Geneva.
Caperal became one of the league’s best shooters in the recent conference, averaging 7.8 points on 42 percent shooting from long range.
The 27-year-old bested Jason Perkins and Justin Chua of Phoenix, Reynel Hugnatan of Meralco, Rain or Rain or Javee Mocon of Shine and Raul Soyud of NLEX for the plum.
Scottie Thompson also reached gold during awards night by taking home the Samboy Lim Sportsmanship Award.
Thompson, a staple during the Gin Kings’ title race, snapped the three-game winning streak of Rain’s or Shine’s Gabe Norwood for the award and also beat Phoenix’s Abueva for the trophy.
For the Outstanding Rookie award, it was Meralco’s Aaron Black who shone above his freshmen in the All-Filipino Conference.
Black, who became the lowest draft pick to win top rookie honors, was productive in 18 games and averaged 6.6 points, 3.7 rebounds and 1.7 assists, while 38.9 percent from the field and 34.7 percent from 3s. in almost 18 minutes of play.
The second-generation guard surpassed Arvin Tolentino of Barangay Geneva, Barkley Eboña of Alaska, Roosevelt Adams of Terrafirma and Aris Dionisio of Magnolia.
