Agree with you lol. Short-tempered that instead of using his strength to dominate the area around the paint and play wisely, he is mostly known as always being involved in a heated discussion with physical arguments.

These players don't understand that being too arrogant will affect their careers. Look, if he's not like that, contract signing shouldn't take a long time to grant. What's the problem then? He's become one of the options instead.

Abueva was worst I believe, unfortunately Abueva is more talented than him so he can't expect that he will be treated like Abueva. In the world of sports, attitude really matters and even some team value the attitude more than the talent... Look at Allen Iverson (nba player), he was so talented by the management choose not to signed him. I know it's a different league but I'm just trying to give an example that attitude really matters.

Calvin Abueva is a changed man, he got no choice.

With that, Phoenix will be strong contender once PBA resumes as he will now be focus on improving his game and helping his team win games, he will not exert any effort anymore fighting anyone in a game.


Maybe they realized that Nabong is not worth to be back with them and like what i've said, there are a lot of players that can replace his position in the draft poll. They have said that this could be the deepest draft ever in the PBA as there are lot of talents applying for the draft.

Attitude kills career indeed. No one exempt to this as managment choose players who can work with the entire team instead of playing alone with his individual skills.

Abueva's case if we still remember, that such attitude removed him from the league and let him realize what's been done wrong. We see know how he value that suspension as we are now seeing him play more on skills and not acting like he was before.

Nabong if given a chance he should see that changes for  much better long stay career, as the competition
around the league is really high.

After all the speculation, here's what happen.

Vic Manuel close to sealing a deal with Alaska on contract extension


Manuel will stay with the Alaska Aces, sorry for those who are hoping he will transfer to another team.

Maybe the contract was already a long term contract, with this news, it tells that Manuel is still very valuable for the team, happy for him, and hopefully he will play more inspired now that he has a new contract with his old team.

Alaska keep him as he is only their chance to at least compete with other teams which has improve their roster. I don't see a chance where Alaska will reach the playoffs again next season, but with Manuel, they can always play a competitive game.

I think that's not the reason why Alaska keeps Manuel. They have a stand back then that they can push without Manuel as the damage is already done. After all, Manuel takes the issue into the media before doing it first in a professional way which is way better so Alaska will be the one to blame for a failed negotiation. Alaska also seems interested in trading Manuel (because Manuel wants to) but only if they can get a better deal to other teams.

And the fact that Alaska keeps Manuel, means no good offer for other teams. Alaska's management might be seen as the bad one here in the story by others but they are grateful that even Manuel keeps asking for a trade and even mentioned his preferred teams, Alaska gives him an option to stay if no teams can give a good offer.

Well then, the story is now close. Hoping that after re-signing Manuel, Alaska's plan for rebuilding wouldn't end there. Even with a healthy Manuel, I still don't see them as one of the good contenders next conference.

He was just frustrated at the beginning but he help his team realized that they should not let go of him. At least Manuel was vocal and honest, that helps the team to know that he is not anymore happy with the contract or term agreement, so for sure we will see a better Manuel this season to come.

We will really expect him to be better by this season. And based on what I've read in some articles, he'll be getting a good incentive and salary for his contract.
And that probably convinced him and his manager to take the deal and also with good talks from the side of Alaska including coach Jeffrey Cariaso's comparison of him to other players that he's the team's star.