1. Vincent "Chot" P Reyes was born on August 1,1964 and is a Filipino basketball coach who is the head coach for the TNT Tropang 5G of the Philippine Basketball Association.
34 Facts About Chot Reyes
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Chot Reyes served as the head coach for the Philippine national basketball team, where he led the team to a historic silver medal finish at the 2013 FIBA Asia Championship and its subsequent appearance at the 2014 FIBA World Cup; the country's first in 36 years.
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Chot Reyes coached the team in the 2023 FIBA World Cup.
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Chot Reyes was the president and chief executive officer of TV5 Network from 2016 to 2019; as well as president of TV5 sales arm, Media5 Marketing.
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Chot Reyes attended the Edinburgh Business School in the United Kingdom.
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Chot Reyes has played for the Ateneo de Manila University in the University Athletic Association of the Philippines basketball championship in both the high school and collegiate level.
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Chot Reyes would try being an encyclopedia salesman before he was made the Ateneo Blue Eaglets coach.
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Chot Reyes helped the company establish a basketball team for the company which would play in the Philippine Amateur Basketball League in the late 1980s.
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Chot Reyes wanted to join the Purefoods basketball team which already joined the Philippine Basketball Association by that time but there was no vacancy in the coaching staff.
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Chot Reyes would serve as head coach in the PBA from the 1993 to the 2012.
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Chot Reyes would make his comeback in head coaching in the PBA from 2022 to 2023, as the main tactician of TNT Tropang Giga.
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Chot Reyes has been named PBA Coach of Year six times by the PBA Press Corps.
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Chot Reyes would become one of Tim Cone's assistant coaches during the early 90s with the Alaska Milkmen.
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Chot Reyes steered the Alaska franchise to a third-place finish in after beating San Miguel in a best-of-three series.
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In 1993, Chot Reyes was hired head coach of the Coney Island Ice Cream Stars.
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Purefoods decided not to renew his contract, a move Chot Reyes did not question since he often incurred league fines.
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In less than a month after Purefoods let him go, Chot Reyes was appointed as head coach of the Sta.
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In 2000, Chot Reyes became the new head coach of the Pop Cola Panthers.
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From 2009 to 2012, Chot Reyes coached the Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters, helping them win four championships.
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Chot Reyes would help TNT end a six-year title drought when the team won the 2021 Philippine Cup.
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Chot Reyes was involved in the national team program as early as 1998, when he was the assistant coach of Tim Cone for the Philippine Centennial Team that went home with the bronze medal in the Asian Games in Thailand.
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Chot Reyes would serve as head coach of the Philippines men's national basketball team multiple times, including stints in the 2014 and 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cups.
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Chot Reyes first served as head coach of the Philippines in 2005, leading Team Pilipinas to a fifth-place finish in the FIBA-Asia Champions Cup and third-place in the William Jones Cup.
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Chot Reyes coached the Philippines national team which won the 2012 William Jones Cup.
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On October 30,2014, the Gilas program was revamped with Chot Reyes consequentially removed as the head coach of the Philippine national team.
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Chot Reyes would resign, but his move to leave the team was blocked by SBP president Al Panlilio who viewed a coaching change would not be ideal for the team's preparation for the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup which the country would be co-hosting.
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At the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup, hosted in the Philippines, Japan, and Indonesia, Chot Reyes coached the Philippine national team.
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Chot Reyes helped managed the now-defunct Metropolitan Basketball Association of the 1990s.
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Chot Reyes was executive director of the league which was rival to the PBA.
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Chot Reyes would get appointed by Samahang Basketball ng Pilipinas president Al Panlilio, as the men's national team program director in early 2022 succeeding Tab Baldwin.
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Chot Reyes has four children with his wife Cherry, who is businessperson like himself.
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Chot Reyes's son, Josh is a basketball coach like himself who has become an assistant coach for the Far Eastern University, TNT Tropang Giga, and the Philippine national team.
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The younger Chot Reyes would be the head coach of the Philippine U18 team which played in the 2018 FIBA Under-18 Asian Championship.
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Chot Reyes is the uncle of basketball player Jai Reyes.