2002 Barangay Ginebra Kings season

Basketball team season

2002 Barangay Ginebra Kings season
Head coach	Cris Calilan Allan Caidic (All-Filipino Cup)
General Manager	Ira Maniquis
Owner(s)	Danding Cojuangco
Governor's Cup results
Record	3–8 (27.3%)
Place	N/A
Playoff finish	N/A
Commissioner's Cup results
Record	2–8 (20%)
Place	N/A
Playoff finish	N/A
All-Filipino Cup results
Record	3–6 (33.3%)
Place	N/A
Playoff finish	N/A
Barangay Ginebra Kings seasons
← 2001 2003 →

The 2002 Barangay Ginebra Kings season was the 24th season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).

Draft picks

Main article: 2002 PBA draft

Occurrences

Eric Menk was one of the 15 players chosen by national coach Jong Uichico to play for the Philippine men's basketball team in the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea. Ginebra head coach Allan Caidic was named among the national team's assistant coaches and taking over from the Ginebra bench to call the shots is assistant coach Cris Calilan.

Transactions

Players Added

Via Draft

Gilbert Malabanan
Chester Tolomia

Via Trade

Eric Menk (From Tanduay in exchange for 2 players and 2 future draft picks)
James Walkvist (From Alaska Aces in June 2002)

Players Lost

Via Trade

Alex Crisano (To Talk 'N Text; part of the Menk deal which originally shipped him to Tanduay)
Vergel Meneses (To FedEx Express in July 2002 in exchange for future draft picks, thus Ginebra regain the 2003 first round pick it traded to Tanduay for Eric Menk – in which FedEx inherited when it bought the franchise.)
EJ Feihl (To Alaska Aces in June 2002)

Roster

2002 Barangay Ginebra Kings roster

Players

Coaches

Pos.	#	Name	Height	From
G	1	David, Bal	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)	UST
G/F	3	Lago, Elmer (RA)	6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)	De La Salle
F/C	9	Limpot, Jun	6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)	De La Salle
G	13	Helterbrand, Jayjay	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)	Kentucky State
C	14	Calpito, Aramis	6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)	San Sebastian
G	15	Naron, Edward	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)	Visayas
F	17	Tolomia, Chester	6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)	UPHSD
C	18	Ong, Wilmer	6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)	USLS
F	19	Malabanan, Gilbert	6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)	UPHSD
C	22	Walkvist, James (A)	6 ft 10 in (2.08 m)
C	30	Menk, Eric	6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)	Lake Superior State
C	31	Basco, Marlon	6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)
F	33	Valera, Teodoro	6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)	UST
F	35	Piodo, Marlon	6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)	USJ–R
F	44	Magtulis, Ronald	6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)	Far Eastern
G	47	Caguioa, Mark	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)	Glendale CC (CA)
F	10	Gee, Jarrod (G)	6 ft 7 in (2.01 m)	Illinois
G/F	6	Wells, Bubba (G)	6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)	Austin Peay
F	5	Ferguson, Desmond (G)	6 ft 7 in (2.01 m)	Detroit Mercy
G	6	Green, Bryan (G)	6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)	Nevada
F/C	21	Davis, Ben (C)	6 ft 9 in (2.06 m)	Arizona
F	11	Mills, Silas (C)	6 ft 7 in (2.01 m)	Utah
G/F	5	Spencer, Isaac (C)	6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)	Murray State
F	2	Meneses, Vergel (T)	6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)	José Rizal
C	32	Feihl, Edward Joseph (T/*)	7 ft 1 in (2.16 m)	Adamson

Head coach

Allan Caidic

Assistant coach(es)

Bong Ramos
George Ella
Cris Calilan

Legend

(DP) Unsigned draft pick
(FA) Free agent
(S) Suspended
(G) Governor's Cup imports
(C) Commissioner's Cup imports
*(A) Acquired via trade
- (T) Traded
- (RA) Re-Acquired from TNT
- (*) Listed in the line-up
- Injured

Eliminations (Won games)

Date	Opponent	Score	Venue (Location)
March 2	Shell	80–72	Cuneta Astrodome
April 6	RP-Hapee	75–69	Philsports Arena
April 14	Red Bull	98–90	Araneta Coliseum
June 21	RP-Selecta	85–81	Ynares Center
July 7	Talk 'N Text	74–63	Araneta Coliseum
October 26	San Miguel	68–62	(Balanga, Bataan)
October 30	Sta.Lucia	74–70	Ynares Center
November 17	FedEx	84–65	Araneta Coliseum