Paolo Banchero is the most prominent athlete in his family, but he’s not the only one. Mom Rhonda was a tremendous basketball player at Washington and dad Mario played tight end there too.
We didn’t realize he had a cousin who plays basketball too.
Chris Banchero, who is half Filipino and half Italian, plays for a team in the Philippines called the Meralco Bolts.
It’s a very different system they have: the team is in the Philippine Basketball Association and owned by the Manila Electric Company.
At 33, Chris is a good bit older than Paolo, so they never really overlapped, but he thinks highly of his younger cousin.