Johnny Abarrientos (born July 17, 1970) is a retired Filipino professional basketball player in the Philippine Basketball Association. He was also a many-time member of the Philippine National team, and was the 1996 PBA Most Valuable Player, becoming the shortest player to win the league's highest individual award. He is known by many as The Flying A when he started playing for the Alaska Milkmen in 1993.
In 1994, Alaska selected Abarrientos 3rd overall in the 1993 PBA Draft and showed impressive performances in his rookie season. In his second season, he was included in the RP National team bound for the 1994 Asian Games held in Hiroshima, Japan.
As early as Dec ... "A lot of people were telling me, including my coaches, Chito Victolero and JohnnyAbarrientos, that when they reached my age, the high level of play were no longer there ... But for now, my goal is really to play — non-stop ... ....
Putting an icing on the cake was winning one over his uncle, JohnnyAbarrientos, one of the PBA's 40 greatest players, who served as one of coach Chito Victolero's assistants at Magnolia.
RJ Abarrientos gives credit to Uncle Johnny... Putting an icing on the cake was winning one over his uncle, Johnny Abarrientos, one of the PBA's 40 greatest players, who served as one of coach Chito Victolero's assistants at Magnolia.
ROOKIE RJ Abarrientos... The nephew of PBA great Johnny Abarrientos logged a PBA career-high 28 points during Ginebra's 121-92 demolition of San Miguel Beer in Game 5 of their semifinal series last week.
The American mentor said he doesn't consider the 24-year-old nephew of PBA legend and Magnolia assistant coach JohnnyAbarrientos as a new-kid-on-the-block so to speak ...Cone believes Abarrientos will be special in the days to come.
The American mentor said he doesn't consider the 24-year-old nephew of PBA legend and Magnolia assistant coach JohnnyAbarrientos as a new-kid-on-the-block so to speak ...Cone believes Abarrientos will be special in the days to come.
... high hopes for Barangay Ginebra's newly signed rookie RJ Abarrientos.RJ Abarrientos (SGA) ... Chua believed that the nephew of PBA great Johnny Abarrientos had been long ready to play in the big league.