The PBA Position Battle – The Top 10 Big Men of the 2016 PBA Commissioner’s Cup

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The season’s second conference is reaching its home stretch, and the time is ripe for us to look back and show our appreciation for the players who really stepped up and made their mark. The PBA has long been dominated by talented small men at the guard and wing positions, but, over the last couple of years, as more and more homegrown bigs enter the pros, we’ve seen a lot more rising stars playing as frontliners. These are the players we’ll look at today — the current top bigs of the PBA.

Note: All of the following stats are based on each player’s stats as computed by PBA-Online.net. They were taken on May 1, 2016.

#PBA2015: The Top 10 Big Men Right Now

The Philippines has always been known as a country that produces great guards. Whether it’s in the distant or recent past, it’s clear that guards have really dictated and dominated the landscape of Philippine basketball. In recent times, however, the balance of power has seemingly shifted, what with the entry of guys like June Mar Fajardo and Greg Slaughter, both hulking slotmen who can stamp their class on a game at will. 

In this piece, I will take a look at the top ten big men right now in the current PBA season. Instead of making distinctions between centers and power forwards, I just opted to use the term big men since many of the guys below alternate between the two positions anyway.

These are based exclusively on the Player Efficiency Ratings as calculated by PBA-Online.net, and the stats are accurate as of the end of the 2015 Commissioner’s Cup.