{"id":334876,"date":"2026-05-15T02:09:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T20:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=334876"},"modified":"2026-05-15T02:09:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T20:39:33","slug":"bol-bol-leads-best-import-race-after-elims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/bol-bol-leads-best-import-race-after-elims\/","title":{"rendered":"Bol Bol leads Best Import race after elims"},"content":{"rendered":"

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TNT Tropang 5G\u2019s Bol Bol during a game against NLEX Road Warriors within the 2026 PBA Commissioner\u2019s Cup quarterfinals. \u2013MARLO CUETO\/INQUIRER.net<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

MANILA, Philippines\u2013Bol Bol, the crowd-drawing 7-foot-3 reinforcement of TNT, holds a large lead within the Bobby Parks Best Import race of the PBA Commissioner\u2019s Cup.<\/p>\n

The previous NBA player compiled 59.4 Statistical Points after the 12-game eliminations to realize an early advantage over San Miguel Beer\u2019s Bennie Boatwright, NLEX\u2019s Cady Lalanne and Barangay Ginebra\u2019s Justin Brownlee.<\/p>\n

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READ: PBA: Ginebra praises Bol Bol after tough battle vs TNT<\/strong><\/p>\n

Boatwright is second with 53.4 SPs with Lalanne in third (50.6) and Brownlee fourth (50.3) while Rain or Shine\u2019s Jaylen Johnson is fifth (47.8).<\/p>\n

Bol, who leads all foreign players in scoring at 38.2 points and blocks with a mean of 4.3, has been a source of intrigue and a spotlight since he was tapped to play within the midseason conference that eliminates the peak limit, though he has sometimes been the topic of scrutiny for his demeanor.<\/p>\n

He has also posted 14.7 rebounds and 1.7 assists on average, however the Tropang 5G ended the elimination at 6-6 and needed to beat top seed NLEX to force a rubber match within the quarters.<\/p>\n

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A loss in Saturday\u2019s do-or-die encounter will end Bol\u2019s bid for the award.<\/p>\n

Boatwright is a distant second despite playing five games for San Miguel. He arrived after replacing Justin Patton following his sudden change in attitude.<\/p>\n

Lalanne, three-time Best Import Brownlee and Johnson, then again, have been vital for his or her respective teams\u2019 status in the highest 4 of the playoffs.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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TNT Tropang 5G\u2019s Bol Bol during a game against NLEX Road Warriors within the 2026 PBA Commissioner\u2019s Cup quarterfinals. \u2013MARLO CUETO\/INQUIRER.net MANILA, Philippines\u2013Bol Bol, the crowd-drawing 7-foot-3 reinforcement of TNT, holds a large lead within the Bobby Parks Best Import race of the PBA Commissioner\u2019s Cup. The previous NBA player compiled 59.4 Statistical Points after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":334877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[14915,5847,1385,2068,997],"class_list":["post-334876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-bol","tag-elims","tag-import","tag-leads","tag-race"],"aioseo_notices":[{"message":"The permalink for this post just changed! This could result in 404 errors for your site visitors.","status":"warning","options":{"id":"0a2ae5f84bc2c0423042ed7ec22d2e40","isDismissible":true,"actions":[{"url":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/wp-admin\/admin.php?page=aioseo-redirects","label":"Add Redirect to improve SEO","class":"aioseo-redirects-slug-changed"}]},"allowedContexts":["posts"]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334876","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=334876"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334879,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334876\/revisions\/334879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}