{"id":321386,"date":"2026-04-19T23:03:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T17:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=321386"},"modified":"2026-04-19T23:03:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T17:33:43","slug":"bennie-boatwright-stays-patient-on-gilas-pilipinas-naturalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/19\/bennie-boatwright-stays-patient-on-gilas-pilipinas-naturalization\/","title":{"rendered":"Bennie Boatwright stays patient on Gilas Pilipinas naturalization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"FOR_target_content\">\n<div id=\"attachment_564909\" style=\"width: 1610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-564909\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE\u2013 San Miguel Beer import Bennie Francois Boatwright III attends the consultative meeting conducted by the Committee on Justice and Human Rights Monday, May 6, 2024, on a proposal to grant him a Filipino citizenship. (Bibo Nueva Espa\u00f1a\/Senate PRIB)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>ANTIPOLO\u2014With Bennie Boatwright back on the town reinforcing San Miguel Beer within the PBA Commissioner\u2019s Cup, expectations are that the method for his naturalization could speed up.<\/p>\n<p>Boatwright, nevertheless, is letting things play out as he expressed his elation over the prospect of being a part of the Gilas Pilipinas program.<\/p>\n<div id=\"billboard_article\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<i id=\"art_cont\" style=\"color:#85A7BF;\">Article continues after this commercial<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>READ: PBA: San Miguel banks on Bennie Boatwright to regular ship<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to it,\u201d he said after dropping 41 points within the Beermen\u2019s 98-94 victory over the NLEX Road Warriors at Ynares Center here. \u201cI keep that in mind day-after-day once I\u2019m training, just preparing for it. I feel it\u2019s an actual good opportunity and I\u2019m grateful for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-10 has attended only one committee hearing each within the Senate and House of Representatives, but is due for no less than another appearance.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bennie Boatwright talks about his naturalization process after a formidable PBA return for San Miguel Beer | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonasterradoINQ?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@jonasterradoINQ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ktO9aWsu9s\">pic.twitter.com\/ktO9aWsu9s<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 INQUIRER Sports (@inquirersports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/inquirersports\/status\/2045856084649546024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 19, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A bill for Boatwright\u2019s naturalization has to pass the committee level and approved on the second and third levels of each chambers before it is distributed to Malacanang for President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to sign it into law.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ: Bennie Boatwright\u2019s naturalization for Gilas Pilipinas set to start<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Boatwright could also turn into a Filipino citizen if the bill shouldn&#8217;t be signed by the Chief Executive after 30 days.<\/p>\n<div id=\"billboard_article\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<i id=\"art_cont\" style=\"color:#85A7BF;\">Article continues after this commercial<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI just wait on Coach Richard,\u201d said Boatwright, referring to Richard del Rosario, who serves as Gilas team manager. \u201cCoach Richard takes care of every thing; he makes every thing smooth. I just stay patient.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Boatwright made his comeback after San Miguel was left at midnight by the sudden absence of Justin Patton in a loss to Magnolia.<\/p>\n<p>He shot 13-of-29 from the sphere with two threes and two fours while hauling down five rebounds within the win that improved San Miguel\u2019s record to 4-4.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE\u2013 San Miguel Beer import Bennie Francois Boatwright III attends the consultative meeting conducted by the Committee on Justice and Human Rights Monday, May 6, 2024, on a proposal to grant him a Filipino citizenship. (Bibo Nueva Espa\u00f1a\/Senate PRIB) ANTIPOLO\u2014With Bennie Boatwright back on the town reinforcing San Miguel Beer within the PBA Commissioner\u2019s Cup, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":321387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[6056,2488,2146,20807,9868,2456,2340],"class_list":["post-321386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-bennie","tag-boatwright","tag-gilas","tag-naturalization","tag-patient","tag-pilipinas","tag-stays"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321386"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321389,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321386\/revisions\/321389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}