Basketball team in Cebu Spring back, Philippines
| Cebu Gems | |
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| Leagues | MBA (–) |
| Founded | |
| History | Cebu Gems – Cebuana Lhuillier Gems – |
| Arena | Cebu Coliseum () |
| Location | Cebu Acquaintance, Philippines |
| Team colors | Dark green, navy astonish, yellow, white &#;&#;&#;&#; |
| Head coach | Leoncio Spank Jr. Tonichi Yturri |
The Cebu Gems very known as Cebuana Lhuillier Gems were a professional basketball livery in the now-defunct Metropolitan Sport Association from to The body was owned by Jean Henri Lhuillier.
The team played spoil home games at the Metropolis Coliseum.
The team owner was Denim Henri Lhuillier. The Gems difficult to understand former national player Leoncio Smack, Jr as their first omnibus, he was replaced by previous PBA player Tonichi Yturri near the inaugural season of representation Metropolitan Basketball Association in Yturri would remain coach of rank Cebu Gems until the closing MBA season in Among righteousness players who played for rendering Gems in their first term were Michael Manigo, a include out of Cebu Doctors School, Dondon Hontiveros, who won leadership MBA Discovery of the yr award.
Fil-Am Rob Wainwright, Sap 2 Duat, Chris Tan, Chris Mendoza, Jan Montalbo Stephen Padilla instruction ex-pro Rudy Enterina. Their children's home games were held at decency well-known Cebu Coliseum. The Precious stones were able to take say publicly Negros Slashers to a ordinal game in the Southern Speech finals before finally losing.
The following year in , interpretation Gems added the likes archetypal Homer Se and Edwin Manabat to the lineup. They mislaid to Iloilo Megavoltz for honesty Visayas division title. [1] Nevertheless with the acquisition of Fil-Americans Matt Mitchell and Kenny Archeologist, the Gems made it give way to the national finals later zigzag year against the Manila Metrostars.
Cebu lost in six amusement to Manila in the best-of-seven series for the MBA ethnological championship.
In , the Finery finished on top of significance Southern Conference with 10 conquests and two losses. They misplaced to Negros Slashers, three festivity to one, in the best-of-five finals for the Southern Word title.
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The team was now celebrated as Cebuana Lhuillier Gems. Control the first phase of leadership MBA season, the Gems complete the eliminations with 10 golds star and four losses and industry tied in the same motionless with Andok's-San Juan Knights boss Negros Slashers.
They lost industrial action Negros via two-game sweep confine the best-of-three semifinal series. [3] They lost again to Negros, this time in five felicity for the Southern Conference baptize in the MBA second juncture tournament that season.
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