{"id":324037,"date":"2026-04-24T21:40:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T16:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=324037"},"modified":"2026-04-24T21:40:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T16:10:30","slug":"converge-taps-ex-phoenix-import-donovan-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/24\/converge-taps-ex-phoenix-import-donovan-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Converge taps ex-Phoenix import Donovan Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"FOR_target_content\">\n<div id=\"attachment_602089\" style=\"width: 2570px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-602089\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE\u2013 Former Phoenix import Donovan Smith set to suit up for Converge within the 2026 PBA Commissioner\u2019s Cup. \u2013MARLO CUETO\/INQUIRER.net<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>MANILA, Philippines\u2013Converge has officially tapped Donovan Smith as its alternative import ahead of Sunday\u2019s PBA Commissioner\u2019s Cup game against his former team Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p>The FiberXers notified the league of the change on Friday, replacing Kylor Kelley as they give the impression of being to show their campaign around within the midseason conference.<\/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>Taggaed as among the many contenders before the beginning of the Commissioner\u2019s Cup, Converge currently has a 3-6 record but is coming off an enormous win over Bol Bol and TNT last Wednesday at Ninoy Aquino Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Smith\u2019s name was floated in the times since Converge coach Delta Pineda opened the opportunity of replacing Kelley.<\/p>\n<p>Kelley, the 7-footer who played for the South Bay Lakers of the NBA G-League, has struggled in recent games, forcing Converge to go all-Filipino during critical moments.<\/p>\n<p>Now the FiberXers are pinning their hopes on Smith, who played for the Fuel Masters in last season\u2019s Commissioner\u2019s Cup.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ztoop\">\n<i id=\"art_cont\" style=\"color:#85A7BF;\">Article continues after this commercial<\/i>\t\t  <\/p><\/div>\n<p>The 6-foot-9 Smith had been one in every of the best-performing imports within the conference, despite Phoenix\u2019s 3-9 showing.<\/p>\n<p>He averaged 30.3 points, 11.9 rebounds, 2.6 assists, 1.2 steals and 1.8 blocks in 12 games.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE\u2013 Former Phoenix import Donovan Smith set to suit up for Converge within the 2026 PBA Commissioner\u2019s Cup. \u2013MARLO CUETO\/INQUIRER.net MANILA, Philippines\u2013Converge has officially tapped Donovan Smith as its alternative import ahead of Sunday\u2019s PBA Commissioner\u2019s Cup game against his former team Phoenix. The FiberXers notified the league of the change on Friday, replacing Kylor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":324038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[2750,2407,50989,1385,2156,3947],"class_list":["post-324037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-converge","tag-donovan","tag-exphoenix","tag-import","tag-smith","tag-taps"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324037","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=324037"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324040,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324037\/revisions\/324040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}