It’s neck and neck for rivals Greg Slaughter of Barangay Ginebra and June Mar Fajardo of San Miguel Beer in the ongoing race for the Best Player of the Conference award.

According to the PBA website, Fajardo is leading in statistical points but his Cebuano rival Slaughter is right behind him.

Fajardo currently has a total of 45.6 statistical points while Slaughter garnered 45.3 SPs, after the elimination round.

Slaughter is the league leader in scoring and rebounding with 23.5 and 15.0 per game. Fajardo, meanwhile, ranked third in scoring (23.1 points) and second in rebounding (14.4) and blocks (1.8).

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The thing that pulled down the Ginebra big man was his technical foul against Mahindra last month, which cost him a minus-5.

Meanwhile, NLEX’s Sean Anthony, GlobalPort’s Stanley Pringle and the Road Warriors’ Asi Taulava occupy the rest of the top five.

According to the PBA, statistical points make up 40% of the criteria for the Best Player of the Conference award.

Fajardo has already been named Best Player of the Conference three times now.

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