{"id":63416,"date":"2002-04-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-04-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/98a79186-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2002-04-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-04-19T00:00:00","slug":"98a79197-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/98a79197-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Idip named MVP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By SHAN SEMAN<\/p>\n<p>Staff Reporter<\/p>\n<p>Chris Idip of the Saipan Red All-Stars was named the Most Valuable Player of the recent Marianas Invitational Basketball Tournament in Rota.<\/p>\n<p>Idip finished the tournament averaging a whopping 24.8 points per game, which included a 33-point outburst in the championship game against Guam.  <\/p>\n<p>Coach Rufino Aguon had nothing but positive comments about the All-Star guard. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the three years that I&#8217;ve coached Chris, I knew that he could play better, and in that championship game against Guam, he showed it,&#8221; said a very proud Aguon. &#8220;Let me put it this way, they [Guam] pissed him off, he became unstoppable, and it made my job a little easier.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Apart from his stint in the MIBT, Idip along with a number of Red teammates will represent the CNMI in the 2002 Micronesian Games in Pohnpei this July.<\/p>\n<p>Including the MIBT crown and MVP citation, Idip has collected a number of awards including the Rotary Club championship to go along with his playoff MVP trophy and a runner-up finish for NMC Proa in the Pepsi Cola 25-and-under Basketball League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Idip of the Saipan Red All-Stars was named the Most Valuable Player of the recent Marianas Invitational Basketball Tournament in Rota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}