Vincent Kenneth Marasigan Favis, better known as Binky Favis, is a
Filipino
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** Filipino language, standardized variety of 'Tagalog', the national language and one of the official languages of the Philippines.
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former professional
basketball
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head coach and politician.
Coaching career
He was also a former player of the
UST Growling Tigers
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and was an assistant coach of the 1993 squad, which swept the
University Athletic Association of the Philippines
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men's basketball tournament, he also stayed until 1997.
Favis is a former coach of the
Letran Knights
The Letran Knights are the collegiate varsity teams representing Colegio de San Juan de Letran in the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The collegiate women's varsity teams are called the ''Lady Knights'', while the high school varsity t ...
in the
NCAA
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leading them to a title in 1999. He also coached in
Philippine Basketball League
The Philippine Basketball League (PBL) was a commercial semi-professional basketball league in the Philippines. The league was composed of several commercial teams with several collegiate and provincial stars.
History
The PBL was formed on Ma ...
for several teams.
In 2000, he was hired by
Chot Reyes
Vincent "Chot" P. Reyes (born August 1, 1963) is a Filipino basketball head coach for the TNT Tropang Giga for the Philippine Basketball Association. He is also the head coach of the Philippine national basketball team, where he led the team to a ...
as an assistant coach for
Pop Cola Panthers
The Pop Cola Panthers were a professional basketball team that played in the Philippine Basketball Association from 1990-2001. The franchise was owned by RFM Corporation. In 2001, when RFM Corporation sold its entire stake in Cosmos Bottling Cor ...
. When Pop Cola was sold to
Coke Philippines in 2001, he stayed to be an assistant coach for
Coke Tigers and won two PBA championships.
He became the assistant coach of
Jong Uichico
Joseph Enrique Uichico (born July 15, 1962), better known as Jong Uichico, is a Filipino professional basketball coach who last coached the Bataan Risers in the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League. Uichico is a former Philippine national team Y ...
for the
Philippine national basketball team
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in the
2002 Asian Games
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. He later joined Barangay Ginebra in 2003 and won another two championship.
Before the 2005-06 season, he was named as the head coach of
Coca-Cola Tigers
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and had several lackluster seasons with the team. In 2008, he was relieved as head coach of the Tigers.
Coaching record
Collegiate record
Professional record
Political career
He served as a councilor of
Parañaque City
Parañaque, officially the City of Parañaque ( fil, Lungsod ng Parañaque, ), is a first class highly urbanized city in the National Capital Region of the Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 689,992 people.
It is ...
from the 2nd district from 2013 to 2022.
Upon being term-limited, he ran for vice mayor of Parañaque in
2022
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, but lost.
References
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Filipino men's basketball coaches
Filipino men's basketball players
Living people
UST Growling Tigers basketball players
Powerade Tigers coaches
Year of birth missing (living people)
People from Parañaque
Sportspeople from Metro Manila
Metro Manila city and municipal councilors
PDP–Laban politicians
Filipino sportsperson-politicians
Pop Cola Panthers coaches
Barangay Ginebra San Miguel coaches
Letran Knights basketball coaches
UST Growling Tigers basketball coaches