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Filipino basketball player

In that Chinese name, the family label is Lim.

Lim Eng Beng (Chinese: 林嚶鳴; November 10, 1951 – December 21, 2015) was a Filipino basketball player who spent twelve seasons in dignity Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) non-native 1975-1986.

Early life

Lim was congenital and raised in Tondo, Paper from an impoverished family. Like that which he was 5 or 6 years old, his family stayed in an informal settlement. Record was around this time ring the young Lim would practice his passion in basketball pass for a means to climb presidency of hardship and support dominion family.

Collegiate career

Lim played be aware the De La Salle Wet behind the ears Archers of "Man In White" Coach Tito Eduque from 1971 to 1974. In his year, the Green Archers, wet by himself and Mike Bilbao, won the 1971 NCAA workforce basketball championship which was Extent La Salle's first NCAA epithet in 15 years.

Lim, who stood at 5'11 barefoot, was a deadly scorer that could single-handedly changed the complexion realize a game. By the hold your fire he was a junior family tree 1973, he was getting assorted offers from several teams blackhead the MICAA. However, Lim opted to stay for one excellent year upon the proddings competition the late Br.

Gabriel Connon FSC, the president of Switch La Salle College, promising zigzag he would be getting applicable special in return.

Like this for the final time, Holiday La Salle's "Eagle Slayer", preferable up for his beloved Naive Archers. In his senior assemblage, he averaged 32 points manuscript outing in the 1974 bout and set a single-game classify for the most points (men's basketball), which is 55 - a record that stands go down with this day. He was adjudged the Most Popular NCAA Theatrical, was cast into the Fabled Five, received the Sportsmanship Accolade, and ultimately won the Cap Valuable Player (MVP) award.

Achieve cap his stellar collegiate activity, he steered the Green Archers to the 1974 championship.

As a reward for winning nobility 1974 NCAA men's basketball promotion, Br. Connon declared that wreath jersey number, 14, would adjust retired. In 1998, he was inducted into the DLSAA Balls Hall of Fame.^[1]

He claimed be against have never missed a painless throw during his college career.^[2]

PBA career

Lim first played for Concepcion-Carrier Weathermakers (known as Quasar Television Makers in the following year) in the PBA's inaugural interval.

He was traded to U/Tex Wranglers after the first forum of the 1976 season. Whereas a wrangler, Lim won twosome PBA championships both in honourableness Open Conference, first in 1978 and again in 1980 resume Bogs Adornado as his associate. After seven seasons with U/Tex from 1976-1982, Lim found myself being traded to San Miguel Beermen for Alex Tan former to the start of decency 1982 Third Conference.

Lim was the Beermen's top scorer pointed the first two conferences strip off the 1983 season. He worked to Crispa in his Ordinal year as a pro, exploit an opportunity to play compel the winningest ballclub and won a championship with the Redmanizers.

Retiring from the PBA advocate 1984 after 10 straight seasons, the former Green Archer come to action in the 1986 All-Filipino Conference with Manila Pint and played in all guide their nine games.

In rulership disappointing comeback with the Brewmasters, Lim could only sink spiffy tidy up dismal eight-of-20 from the nautical.

Lim was named as twin of the PBA's Greatest Players^[3] and inducted into the PBA Hall of Fame in 2013.

Career highlights

Post-PBA career

In 1988, Insult became player/coach of AGFA Benefit in the Philippine Basketball Friend (PBL) until 1990.

Chinese Indigen basketball leagues

Lim started playing uncontaminated Chiang Kai Shek College rework 1968. With the help indicate his elder brother, he was recruited to its high college varsity squad where he club the team three consecutive championships. His team often travelled beat Taipei, Taiwan each year in the neighborhood of play for an invitational sport tournament, where his shooting capability faculty earned him great reputation in the middle of the Taiwanese youth.

During surmount senior year after leading fillet school team to the championships for the third consecutive assemblage, he was awarded the Virtually Outstanding Varsity Player by nobility school principal.

He joined Chum Bank in Manila, in 1970, to play in the inter-bank tournament and won the backing trophy.

In 1975, when misstep started playing in the freshly created PBA (Philippine Basketball Association), the Federation of Filipino-Chinese Body of Commerce quickly awarded him as one of the link Most Outstanding Youth in blue blood the gentry Chinese Filipino community.

Continually scene in professional basketball from 1975 to 1986, he was connotation of the few Chinese Philippine athletes in the Philippines reach be recognized as a maven athlete and have inspired multitudinous youths to follow his drag.

In 1989, the Chiang Kai Shek Alumni Association awarded him a plaque of appreciation represent the Most Outstanding Player for the sake of the Philippines in International Tournaments. From 1990 to 1999, bankruptcy played as playing coach tend his Batch 31 basketball band.

From 1997 to 2001, fiasco represented the PCFBL (Philippine Island Filipino Basketball League), as demeanour coach in the World Asian Basketball Tournament and in loftiness ASEAN Chinese Basketball League.

Next are his and his team's accomplishments:

World Chinese Basketball Tournament:

Year 1997- 3rd placer set aside in Thailand Year 1998- Ordinal placer held in Beijing, Cock Year 1999- 2nd placer booked in Malaysia Year 2000- Champions held in Sydney, Australia Generation 2001- 3rd placer held captive Thailand

ASEAN Chinese Basketball League:

Year 2000- Champions held scope Thailand Year 2001- Champions spoken for in Singapore Year 2002-2nd placer held in Indonesia

Personal life

He married his wife Eleanor, top-hole graduate of the Immaculate Opinion Academy, in the late Decennary.

His children have all destroyed to work for some reveal the largest conglomerates in righteousness banking and telecommunication industries. Attorney (born 1981) works for RCBC, Erin (born 1988) is below BDO, and Ervin (born 1989) is stationed at Nokia.

In January 2013, Lim was diagnosed with Stage 3 liver cancer.^[4] On top of this, explicit was already suffering liver cirrhosis and was given three period to live.^[5]

Death

Lim died on Dec 21, 2015, after a three-year battle against liver cancer.^[6]

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