ALLAN CAIDIC

The Legend of The Triggerman 21 November 1991 | Most Points scored by a PBA Player: 79

Highly touted coming out of college and taken first overall in the 1987 PBA rookie draft, Allan Caidic is a multiple-time PBA champion and all-star, and league’s Most Valuable Player in 1990. On top of highly decorated collegiate and professional careers, Caidic represented the Philippines internationally, helping the Philippines get gold in the 1985 Southeast Asian Games, and leading our national team grab a couple of bronze finishes (1986, 1998), a silver (1990) and a gold (1990) in FIBA Asia.

But, best of all, he has the most cold-blooded moniker in the history of Philippine sports: The Triggerman. One doesn’t just get rewarded with such honor. One has to shoot for it—and shoot Caidic did on that fateful night.

Caidic sat at the Presto Tivoli bench the whole first quarter on the evening of November 21, 1991. It

was a game against bruising crowd favorite Ginebra San Miguel. Allan wasn’t even supposed to play, having rushed from a nearby hospital where his wife was in extended labor. He was supposedly tense, which explains the benching. But then he entered the game in the second quarter.

Three quarters passed and Caidic finished with 17 three pointers, scoring a total of 79 points on 74% field goal shooting. Seventy-nine. Final score: Presto, 162; Ginebra, 149. In that game alone, The Triggerman made history three times over: most points in a quarter (37), most points in a half (53), and most points in a game (79).

After the game, Caidic was able to successfully hold in his arms his newborn child—a bit of weight the legend surely didn’t mind hoisting after an epic hooping performance.