{"id":353772,"date":"2026-06-20T15:30:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T10:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=353772"},"modified":"2026-06-20T15:30:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T10:00:50","slug":"scottie-thompson-credits-ginebra-teammates-after-finals-mvp-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/06\/20\/scottie-thompson-credits-ginebra-teammates-after-finals-mvp-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottie Thompson credits Ginebra teammates after Finals MVP win"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Scottie Thompson and RJ Abarrientos have fun as Barangay Ginebra wins the 2026 PBA Commissioner\u2019s Cup title after beating TNT Tropang 5G in Game 7. \u2013MARLO CUETO\/INQUIRER.net<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

MANILA, Philippines\u2014Scottie Thompson remained as humble as ever after adding one other Finals MVP trophy to his collection in Barangay Ginebra\u2019s PBA Commissioner\u2019s Cup title run.<\/p>\n

After winning the Ramon Fernandez Finals MVP award, Thompson admitted he was surprised when his name was called.<\/p>\n

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READ: Scottie Thompson describes latest Ginebra title as \u2018hardest to win\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

That response stemmed from his belief that several of his teammates were just as deserving of the honour.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m truly blessed but I don\u2019t know if I deserve it because there have been so many others who could have won it,\u201d Thompson told the Inquirer at Mall of Asia Arena on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cLots of our guys played well, a variety of guys carried us so I\u2019m truly blessed and honored.\u201d<\/p>\n

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READ: Ginebra returns to the PBA throne behind old reliables Brownlee, Scottie<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thompson captured the third Finals MVP award of his profession after averaging 10 points, 6.9 rebounds, 5.4 assists and 1.3 steals entering Game 7.<\/p>\n

Within the winner-take-all contest, which Ginebra won 88-76, the Gilas Pilipinas guard delivered a near triple-double of 19 points, 11 rebounds and eight assists.<\/p>\n

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Among the many other standouts within the series were reigning Best Player of the Conference RJ Abarrientos, who scored 13 points in Game 7, and Troy Rosario, who added 13 points and 7 rebounds within the championship-clinching victory.<\/p>\n

For Thompson, nevertheless, individual accolades took a back seat to ending Ginebra\u2019s title drought.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe, as a team, bounced back and the great performances individually just followed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOverall, we didn\u2019t really consider the past or the long run, we just stayed within the moment, focused on the sport and the result followed.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Scottie Thompson and RJ Abarrientos have fun as Barangay Ginebra wins the 2026 PBA Commissioner\u2019s Cup title after beating TNT Tropang 5G in Game 7. \u2013MARLO CUETO\/INQUIRER.net MANILA, Philippines\u2014Scottie Thompson remained as humble as ever after adding one other Finals MVP trophy to his collection in Barangay Ginebra\u2019s PBA Commissioner\u2019s Cup title run. After winning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":353773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[4718,669,697,6775,1349,1327,1133,658],"class_list":["post-353772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-credits","tag-finals","tag-ginebra","tag-mvp","tag-scottie","tag-teammates","tag-thompson","tag-win"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353772","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=353772"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353775,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353772\/revisions\/353775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}