ROS enlists Lowhorn as PBA import

Dior Lowhorn (44) played for the GlobalPort Batang Pier in 2014. Nuki Sabio/PBA IMAGES

RAIN or Shine will shoot for a second straight PBA title in the season-ending Governors’ Cup starting next month by tapping league veteran Dior Lowhorn as an import.

Listed as 6-foot-5, Lowhorn will be seeing action for a third PBA team as the Elasto Painters seek a follow-up to their Commissioner’s Cup conquest in the season’s third conference tentatively slated to open on July 17.

Lowhorn played for Barangay Ginebra in 2013 and averaged 30.9 points and 11.3 rebounds, before suiting up for GlobalPort the following year to turn in 28.8 points and 11 boards.

More than the numbers, Lowhorn is a legitimate inside presence and, like what Pierre Henderson-Niles provided Rain or Shine in the last conference, could be a perfect fit for the Elasto Painters.

Lowhorn is a product of the Texas Tech University program under Bob Knight and he will be joining a Rain or Shine crew that is loaded with local talent, especially if Paul Lee gets all issues with his left knee sorted out. Lowhorn will plane in on June 25.

Other returnees seeing action are  Arizona Reid for San Miguel Beer and Marqus Blakely for Star.

Reid will try to lead the Beermen to a repeat, while Blakely will try to win another title for the Hotshots, whom he led to the league’s fifth Grand Slam in 2013 under coach Tim Cone.