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The Rain or Shine Elasto Painters debuted in the Philippine Basketball League in 1996 as the Welcoat Paint Masters. Its first championship came in the 1999 Challenge Cup, winning 3–0 over Red Bull Energy Drink. Welcoat was considered as one of the two teams to enter the PBA before the 2000 season but lost out to Red Bull.
A torrid third-quarter run and tight defense down the stretch was all it took for Welcoat to win their PBL championship as it held off Red Bull, 80-74, to complete a three-game sweep as the Paint Masters finally stepped out of the shadows of the Asia Brewery franchise Stag Pale Pilsen / Tanduay, which dominated the league the past three years before the latter ascended to the PBA this year.
Welcoat Paint Masters: Career highlights and awards; PBL champion (2002–03 Challenge Cup) UAAP champion ; Dominic "Dom" Uy is a Filipino former basketball player ...
Welcoat Dragons: 2018–2019: Basilan Steel: 2021: ARQ Builders–Lapu-Lapu City Heroes: Career highlights and awards; PBA champion (2001 Governors') MPBL All-Star ; PBL champion (2005 Unity) PBL Most Valuable Player (2005-06 Heroes) 4× PBL Mythical First Team (2003-04 Platinum, 2004 Unity, 2005-06 Heroes, 2006 Unity)
In 2006, Welcoat bought the Shell franchise to join the PBA as its 10th member. With this development, Austria was renamed head coach of the Welbest franchise, this time carrying the banner of Rain or Shine Elasto Painters in preparation for their PBA debut. The Painters placed third in the 2006 PBL Unity Cup in the team's final conference.
Name Position College Season entered Left team No. of seasons Ref. Junjun Cabatu: Forward: De La Salle University-Manila: 2006-07: 2007 1 [20]Andrei Caracut
Just as with other expansion teams, Welcoat had a difficult first couple of seasons, allowing them to participate in the draft lottery. Like in the National Basketball Association (NBA) Draft , a draft lottery determined which team gets the first overall draft pick, but on a much smaller scale; only the two worst-performing teams in the ...
Belasco grew up in Stockton, California, which is home to a large community of Filipinos. [2] Before he came to the Philippines, he had the nickname of "Saint Nic." [3] He is a third-generation Filipino-American with his ancestor coming over in 1926 doing farm labor in the Stockton area.