You can add another title to the long list of occupations held by Manny Pacquiao. Boxing champion, congressman, basketball coach, and now basketball player. That’s right, the team Pacquiao coaches in the Philippines is the team that selected him in the PBA draft.
via the LA Times:
With the 10th overall pick in the 2014 Philippine Basketball Assn. rookie draft, Kia Motors selected its coach. Apparently, the plan all along was for Pacquiao to serve as a player-coach, but he needed to go through the draft in order to make that happen.
Continuing to focus on the familiar, Kia Motors went on to select its coach’s cousin, Rene Pacquiao, in the third round. Rene played at Southwestern University of Cebu and spent time in the Philippines’ D-League.
He was promoting his Nov. 22 title fight against Chris Algieri.
