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PBA: SMB's Fajardo nabs record-extending 9th Best Player of the Conference award

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Camille B. Naredo, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="San Miguel center June Mar Fajardo receives his Best Player of the Conference award ahead of Game 4 of the 2022 PBA Philippine Cup Finals. PBA Images." src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2022/sports/08/28/08282022-san-miguel-center-june-mar-fajardo.jpeg"/><figcaption>San Miguel center June Mar Fajardo receives his Best Player of the Conference award ahead of Game 4 of the 2022 PBA Philippine Cup Finals. <em>PBA Images.</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA (<strong>UPDATED</strong>) - For the ninth time in his PBA career, San Miguel center June Mar Fajardo has earned Best Player of the Conference honors. </p><p>&quot;The Kraken&quot; claimed the award after a superb campaign in the 2022 PBA Philippine Cup, where he powered the Beermen to the Finals against the TNT Tropang GIGA.</p><p>Fajardo, 32, averaged 18.6 points and 13.3 rebounds per game through the semifinals of the conference. They currently have a 2-1 lead against TNT in the best-of-7 Finals, where Fajardo is averaging 21.3 points and 17 rebounds per game, while shooting 72% from the field.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/08/21/22/pba-tnts-williams-leaps-into-bpc-contention">READ: Fajardo still leads way as TNT&#x27;s Williams leaps into BPC contention</a></li></ul><p>This is the seventh time that Fajardo has won BPC honors in the All-Filipino conference. He also won the award in the 2015 Governors&#x27; Cup and the 2018 Commissioner&#x27;s Cup.</p><p>His nine BPC trophies is a PBA record. His last win, however, was back in the 2019 Philippine Cup; Fajardo suffered a leg injury in February 2020 that forced him to miss the entire season. </p><p>In just his third season back since suffering the injury, Fajardo has again stood tallest in the All-Filipino Cup, running away with the BPC trophy. The San Miguel big man received 501 votes from statistics, 537 media votes, and 81 player votes for a total of 1,119 votes.</p><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="BPC stats" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2022/sports/08/28/08282022-bpc-stats.jpg"/></figure></div><p>Fajardo beat out his own teammate, CJ Perez, TNT&#x27;s Mikey Williams, and the Barangay Ginebra pair of Japeth Aguilar and Scottie Thompson for the award.</p><p>Perez finished second in the BPC race, with 776 votes, followed by Williams (610), Thompson (468) and Aguilar (415).</p><p>Aside from his trophy, Fajardo also received a cash prize of P50,000 during the awarding ceremony ahead of Game 4 of the 2022 PBA Philippine Cup Finals.</p></div>

For the ninth time in his PBA career, San Miguel center June Mar Fajardo has earned Best Player of the Conference honors.

PBA: SMB's Fajardo nabs record-extending 9th Best Player of the Conference award

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PBA: SMB's Fajardo nabs record-extending 9th Best Player of the Conference award

Camille B. Naredo,

ABS-CBN News

Published August 28, 2022 06:24 PM PHT

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Updated August 28, 2022 06:51 PM PHT

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