Mikee Reyes was selected 24th overall by the TNT KaTropa in the 2016 PBA draft.
50 Facts About Mikee Reyes
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Mikee Reyes played college basketball for the UP Fighting Maroons.
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Mikee Reyes started playing for the UP Fighting Maroons in UAAP Season 72 in the year 2009.
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Mikee Reyes returned the following season and helped the Maroons end their 27-game losing streak.
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Mikee Reyes became an NCAA basketball analyst for ABS-CBN in 2015 and for GMA Network when the league moved to the network in 2020, and then a basketball analyst for One Sports.
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Mikee Reyes was a sports presenter for Frontline Pilipinas from 2023 to 2024.
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Mikee Reyes's father was a former San Beda Red Lion who introduced him to basketball at a young age.
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Mikee Reyes started attending basketball camps while he was in prep at Ateneo.
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In high school, Mikee Reyes played for La Salle Green Hills.
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Mikee Reyes had been cut from the high school varsity team of Ateneo.
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Mikee Reyes was recruited by La Salle, but decided to play for the UP Fighting Maroons instead, as the Maroons were underdogs at the time and hadn't won many games in the previous seasons.
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Mikee Reyes missed two full seasons due to shoulder injuries.
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Mikee Reyes returned in 2013, where in the opening game against the Adamson Falcons, Dandan benched him in the second half despite him being the starting point guard.
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Mikee Reyes was then relegated to third team point guard and Dandan told him that the team "didn't need you to win".
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Mikee Reyes then had 14 points and 22 points in UP's next two losses, which were to the UST Growling Tigers and to DLSU respectively.
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In January 2015, despite having one more playing year left, Mikee Reyes announced that he would not be returning to UP.
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Mikee Reyes played for the Pampanga Foton Tornadoes in the Filsports Basketball Association in 2015, but it was during this time that he suffered an ACL tear.
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Mikee Reyes played for them in the Pilipinas Commercial Basketball League.
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Mikee Reyes declared for the 2016 PBA Draft four months in advance.
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Mikee Reyes was drafted by the TNT Katropa on the day of his birthday.
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In 2016, Mikee Reyes was doing commentary for the ABL when he got the offer to play for the Kaohsiung Truth in the ABL.
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Mikee Reyes didn't make the roster for that ABL season.
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Mikee Reyes took an office job for only three months.
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Mikee Reyes had 17 points and 10 assists in a come from behind victory over the Pasay Voyagers.
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Mikee Reyes then had a triple-double in a win over the Caloocan Supremos with 21 points, 10 rebounds, and 15 assists.
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Mikee Reyes became only the third player at the time in league history to record a triple-double after Parks and Andoy Estrella.
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Mikee Reyes left the team shortly after "out of respect" for his father.
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Mikee Reyes was then traded to the Valenzuela Classic for Rocky Acidre.
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Mikee Reyes had 12 assists in a win over the Pasig Pirates.
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In 2019, Mikee Reyes joined Imus Bandera, which was coached by his father and had recruited Jayjay Helterbrand, Gerald Anderson, Chad Alonzo, and several of his former teammates at UP.
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Mikee Reyes scored 10 points in a loss to the GenSan Warriors.
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Mikee Reyes then had 12 points in an overtime loss to the Iloilo United Royals.
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In 2017, Mikee Reyes practiced with Chooks-to-Go Pilipinas, the team that would represent the Philippines in the 2017 FIBA Asia Champions Cup.
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Mikee Reyes was a Grab driver for a certain period of time.
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Mikee Reyes then used the channel to interview basketball players and coaches.
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Mikee Reyes then transitioned away from that format to the Shoot First podcast, where he and his co-hosts talk about current basketball topics and some non-basketball related topics.
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In 2015, Mikee Reyes first started covering basketball games in the FBA, as Vince Hizon offered him the opportunity.
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Mikee Reyes did two FBA games, which led to an audition to cover NCAA Season 91 basketball for ABS-CBN Sports.
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Mikee Reyes passed the audition, and became one of the members of the NCAA television panel.
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In 2021, Mikee Reyes became an NCAA analyst for GMA Network.
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Mikee Reyes worked for GMA until the end of NCAA Season 97.
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Mikee Reyes then became a basketball analyst for TV5 and its sister channel One Sports in 2022, often appearing on The Game and covering PBA games.
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Mikee Reyes became the first fully tattooed news reporter in the Philippines.
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Mikee Reyes left the network until the end of 2024.
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In 2020, Mikee Reyes set up the GOAT Academy, a basketball academy where college basketball players could learn from professional basketball players.
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Mikee Reyes based the idea off Kobe Bryant's Mamba Sports Academy.
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Mikee Reyes is currently in a relationship with CK De Leon, who is a content creator on Instagram.
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Mikee Reyes was in a relationship with Bea Daez, a former basketball player for the UP Lady Maroons.
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Mikee Reyes deleted his Twitter account as he wasn't making money on the platform and he was getting bashed for his opinions.
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Mikee Reyes is still active on other types of social media.