Tauras Jogela will join June Mar Fajardo, Chris Ross and CJ Perez in San Miguel which is gunning for a sixth Governors' Cup trophy.
San Miguel brings in Lithuanian Tauras Jogela as its reinforcement for the PBA Season 49 Governors’ Cup.
Team manager Gee Abanilla confirmed to One Sports via text message that the Beermen are tapping the 31-year-old cager, whose height is listed by FIBA as 6-foot-8.
After going undrafted in the NBA in 2015, he jumped from one team to another as he had stops at Romania, Latvia, Poland, Hungary and Austria.
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Jogela last played for Jonava CBET in the Lithuanian Basketball League.
Abanilla said Jogela, who led his home country to the FIBA Europe U16 championship and eventually won Most Valuable Player, arrived in the country on Thursday night, July 18.
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“Yes, he arrived last night,” Abanila told One Sports.
Jogela will join a San Miguel side that is eyeing a sixth Governors' Cup title.