Victor Pablo

Victor Pablo

FEU Tamaraws
Position	Assistant coach
League	UAAP
Personal information
Born	(1970-08-08) August 8, 1970 Manila, Philippines
Nationality	Filipino
Listed height	6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Listed weight	200 lb (91 kg)
Career information
College	FEU
PBA draft	1993: 1st round, 2nd overall pick
Selected by the Ginebra San Miguel
Playing career	1993–2008
Position	Small forward
Number	33
Coaching career	2011–present
Career history
As player:
1993–1994	Pepsi Mega Bottlers
1995	San Miguel Beermen
1995–1999	Formula Shell Zoom Masters
2000–2007	Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters
2008	Barangay Ginebra Kings
As coach:
2011–present	FEU (assistant)
Career highlights and awards
4× PBA champion (1998 Governors', 1999 All-Filipino, 2003 All-Filipino, 2008 Fiesta) 4× PBA All-Star (1993, 1994, 1998, 1999) PBA Mythical First Team (2002) PBA Mythical Second Team (1998) PBA Slam Dunk Champion (1994)

Victor Pablo (born August 8, 1970) is a retired Filipino professional basketball player in the Philippine Basketball Association.

Playing career

A former king Tamaraw at Far Eastern University, Pablo was the second overall pick in the 1993 PBA draft. He was drafted by Ginebra San Miguel but failed to reach an agreement with the Gins and was subsequently traded to Pepsi in exchange for center Manny Victorino. At Pepsi, he rejoined coach Derrick Pumaren, his former coach at Triple-V Foodmasters during his PBL days.

After two seasons with the Mega Bottlers, Pablo would be involved in two trades in the 1995 PBA season, first with Alvin Teng, whom San Miguel dealt to Pepsi to acquire Pablo and towards the end of the 1995 PBA Governors' Cup eliminations, he was traded by the Beermen to Formula Shell for Paul Alvarez.

In 1998, Pablo was one of the final cuts in coach Tim Cone's Philippine Centennial Team. Vic made up for the non-inclusion to the Asian Games squad by having an outstanding season with Formula Shell. He earned his first PBA championship in a six-year career when Shell won the season-ending Governors Cup.

He was traded to Mobiline Phone Pals for Mark Telan at the beginning of the new millennium. In 2003, finally free from injuries, Pablo stepped up big and helped the Phone Pals win their first title in the All-Filipino Cup Championship.

Pablo was later on traded to Barangay Ginebra Kings in 2008, where he finally got to play for the team that drafted him. He won a championship ring for the Kings during the Fiesta Conference. After his one season stint w/ Ginebra, he decided to call it quits.

Coaching career

Pablo later served as one of the assistant coaches for the FEU Tamaraws.

Personal life

His daughter, Ira, worked as a courtside reporter for PBA in 2022.

PBA career statistics

Legend
GP	Games played	GS	Games started	MPG	Minutes per game
FG%	Field-goal percentage	3P%	3-point field-goal percentage	FT%	Free-throw percentage
RPG	Rebounds per game	APG	Assists per game	SPG	Steals per game
BPG	Blocks per game	PPG	Points per game	Bold	Career high

Season-by-season averages

Year	Team	GP	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
1993	7-Up / Pepsi	43	34.0	.494	.222	.810	6.6	1.3	.1	.7	13.5
1994	Pepsi	38	29.4	.511	.318	.715	4.8	1.1	.1	.3	13.2
1995	San Miguel	33	20.8	.493	.286	.703	3.4	.9	.0	.5	9.4
	Formula Shell	13	29.7	.445	.400	.733	5.3	1.2	.2	.2	9.4
1996	Formula Shell	63	31.0	.487	.000	.756	5.8	1.3	.2	.6	12.1
1997	Formula Shell	46	39.5	.473	.125	.812	7.2	2.6	.4	.7	17.4
1998	Formula Shell	61	32.4	.469	.357	.771	5.7	2.0	.3	.8	11.6
1999	Formula Shell / Shell	55	40.3	.454	.304	.793	6.1	1.7	.2	.8	15.3
2000	Mobiline	24	—	.435	.361	.777	9.9	2.8	.3	.7	19.8
2001	Mobiline / Talk 'N Text	31	33.0	.403	.204	.750	4.7	1.5	.2	.6	9.7
2002	Talk 'N Text	47	23.1	.412	.452	.737	4.8	1.1	.2	.4	8.1
2003	Talk 'N Text	46	26.7	.394	.321	.768	4.5	1.5	.4	.6	9.2
2004–05	Talk 'N Text	75	31.2	.451	.324	.804	6.4	.9	.2	.2	11.4
2005–06	Talk 'N Text	33	22.4	.428	.383	.722	3.2	.8	.2	.2	8.9
2006–07	Talk 'N Text	43	12.2	.339	.250	.889	1.9	.5	.0	.2	2.4
2007–08	Barangay Ginebra	10	7.9	.391	.250	—	1.8	.2	.0	.0	2.0
Career		661	30.2	.457	.330	.771	5.3	1.4	.2	.5	11.3