Alex Compton

Infobox NBA Player
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position = Shooting guard / Point guard
height_ft = 5
height_in = 11
weight_lb = 175
salary =
team = Welcoat Dragons (2007)
nationality = United States
birth_date = birth date|1974|3|16|mf=y
birth_place = Makati City, Philippines
college = Cornell University
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draft_year =
former_teams = MBA: Manila Metrostars (1998-2000), Batangas Blades (2001)
PBL: LBC-Batangas Blades (2002), Sunkist-UST Tigers (2003), Montaña Pawnshop Jewels (2004-05)
PBA: Welcoat Dragons (2007)
draft_team =
career_start = 1998
career_end =
awards = MBA Most Valuable Player (1999)
PBL Open Championship Finals MVP (2005)
All-MBA Team (1999, 2001)

Alexander M. Compton (born March 16, 1974 in Makati City, Philippines)

Born in Manila, Compton and his family spent a year in northeastern Thailand when he was ten years old. His parents, both Southeast Asian studies scholars, were researchers there.

Compton moved to Madison from upstate New York in 1988, when his parents began working at the University of Wisconsin. Compton was a starting guard on the 1992 Madison West High School basketball squad. There he teamed up with Mike Dammen to led the school's only state championship team since 1945.

Although he dreamed of playing in a foreign league, Compton had no clue how to get to one until his junior year at Cornell. When a coach heard Compton was born in the Philippines, he told Compton that he could play on a team in the Philippine Basketball Association. Compton found an agent, who arranged for him to join a team in July 1997, after graduation.

Compton is most notably known for his years in the Metropolitan Basketball Association with the Manila Metrostars and the Batangas Blades. He won the 1999 MBA Most Valuable Player award when the Metrostars won the national title and also won another championship with the Blades in 2001.

By the time the MBA folded in 2002, Compton was a fixture in Philippine basketball and fully assimilated into the culture. But he still couldn't play in the PBA. Instead, he appeared on television as a basketball analyst. Compton also got an exception from the Philippine Basketball League. He played for the Sunkist-UST Tigers and the Montaña Pawnshop Jewels from 2002-2006. He led the Jewels to its only PBL crown in the 2005 PBL Open Championship.

In the 2006-07 PBA Philippine Cup, Compton was one of the assistant coaches of the Dragons before being allowed by the PBA to play as the team's second import for the 2007 PBA Fiesta Conference.

Accomplishments

*1999 MBA Most Valuable Player
*1999 MBA Champion
*2001 MBA Champion
*2005 PBL Champion
*2005 PBL Open Championship Finals MVP
*All-MBA Team (1999, 2001)

External links

* [http://www.herword.com/spotlight/compton09.02.02.html Alex Compton]
* [http://www.teenfad.ph/news/archives/compton.htm Alex Compton 2]
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before = John Ferriols
after = Rommel Adducul
title = MBA Most Valuable Player
years = 1999