Paolo Mendoza

Paolo Mendoza

Personal information
Born	(1978-04-22) April 22, 1978 (age 47) Quezon City, Metro Manila
Nationality	Filipino
Listed height	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Listed weight	170 lb (77 kg)
Career information
High school	UPIS (Quezon City)
College	UP
PBA draft	2000: 1st round, 1st overall
Drafted by	Sta. Lucia Realtors
Playing career	2000–2011
Position	Point guard
Number	8
Career history
As a player:
2000-2010	Sta. Lucia Realtors
2010-2011	Powerade Tigers
As a coach:
2013-2023	UPIS
Career highlights
2× PBA champion (2001 Governors', 2007–08 Philippine) PBA Sportsmanship Award (2002) PBL Most Valuable Player (1999-00 2nd Yakult Challenge)

Paolo Mendoza (born April 22, 1978) in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines) is a Filipino former professional basketball player. He last played in the Philippine Basketball Association for the Powerade Tigers. He was drafted by Sta. Lucia in 2000 as the first overall. ^{[1] [2]}

Player Profile

Paolo Mendoza is a certified scoring machine in his high school (UPIS) and collegiate (UP) days where he was scoring above 40 points. In an instance, he holds the UAAP junior record of most points in a single game at 69 when he led University of the Philippines Integrated School to victory over University of the East in 1994. In fact, Mendoza's 48 points – the highest output made by collegiate player – in the 1997 UAAP season stays unbreakable until now.

He is one of the factors that allowed the Realtors to capture the 2001 Governor's Cup championship, the first-ever PBA title of the team. Mendoza, along with Marlou Aquino and Dennis Espino were the last and remaining members of that 2001 champion team before the Sta. Lucia Realtors finally disbanded in 2010.

PBA career statistics

Legend
GP	Games played	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

^[3]

Season-by-season averages

Year	Team	GP	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
2000	Sta. Lucia	40	23.9	.387	.287	.817	2.4	2.1	.4	.1	8.0
2001	Sta. Lucia	49	26.2	.379	.301	.830	2.2	2.9	.3	.1	9.8
2002	Sta. Lucia	33	27.0	.399	.352	.893	2.6	2.6	.5	.1	11.0
2003	Sta. Lucia	47	29.8	.329	.312	.825	2.8	2.6	.6	.0	8.1
2004–05	Sta. Lucia	52	28.6	.328	.361	.590	2.2	2.5	.4	.1	8.1
2005–06	Sta. Lucia	36	26.9	.344	.343	.622	2.6	3.3	.4	.1	9.1
2006–07	Sta. Lucia	46	24.0	.358	.354	.650	2.3	2.3	.4	.0	8.2
2007–08	Sta. Lucia	50	14.9	.373	.340	.792	1.1	1.4	.3	.1	5.5
2008–09	Sta. Lucia	40	13.9	.325	.311	.800	1.1	1.4	.4	.1	4.5
2009–10	Sta. Lucia	26	15.5	.303	.292	.750	1.4	1.4	.2	.0	3.5
	Coca-Cola
2010–11	Powerade	14	14.1	.258	.300	—	1.6	.9	.1	.0	1.6
Career		433	23.1	.355	.332	.775	2.0	2.2	.4	.1	7.5

References

1. Waylon Galvez (1 November 2017). "PBA: Kiefer can easily adjust – Paolo Mendoza". Manila Bulletin . Archived from the original on 2 September 2018. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
2. Reuben Terrado (26 October 2013). "Eyed for UP coaching job, Paolo Mendoza glad to help in any way he can". Spin.ph . Retrieved 2 September 2018.
3. "Paolo Mendoza Player Profile - PBA-Online.net". PBA-Online.net. Archived from the original on March 16, 2017.

External links

• Profile at Asia-basket.com
• Statistics at worldhoopstats.com