He shook and faked his defender to the right and drove off to the left as he slashed the middle and soared for a soft finger roll at the buzzer amid the outstretched arms of two defenders. The shot went in and his opponents and their supporters watched him in awe, stunned and helpless with bowed heads as the entire Aquinas University Basketball Varsity Team and its supporters whopped it up and erupted into a wild frenzy and celebration inside the jam-packed Bicol College Gym in Daraga, Albay. The occasion was the basketball finals of the Albay Colleges and Universities Athletic Associations (ACUAA) inaugurals.

And Tsang, the five-foot eleven sweet-shooting guard was the toast of the tournament; aside from giving AUL the basketball championships, he was also named Most Valuable Player (MVP) and First Mythical Team Selection after the grueling five- game championship series. He was on top of the world at the moment and his future look promising.

In fact, there were several invitations from various commercial leagues in the Philippine Amateur Basketball League (PABL) for him to try and strut his wares in Manila. An invitation, he find too hard to resist. After consulting with his coach, friends, parents and supporters, he decided to take the challenge and plunged into action into the commercial league where he pitted his skills and held his own against the likes of the young Kenneth Duremdes and other talented two-guards at that time.

His career was cut short however, when he was sidelined during one of the hotly contested game in the Commissioner’s Cup wherein he felt his right knee popped while going for the loose ball after a rebound scramble and collided with the gangling ex- pro Hernani Demegillo that sent him to take a forced vacation from the game that he love to play.

He underwent a battery of tests and was diagnosed to have a torn Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) prior to the semifinal match between his team and Burger Machine. At the time, a kind of injury that is a form of a death sentence for any basketball player worth is salt. His promising basketball career was unceremoniously cut short when he underwent Arthroscopic surgery to repair the said ACL tear. He worked his way up and back to his team, undergoing a rigorous rehabilitation process under the watchful eyes of his trainer but he was never the same a player again after that fateful day and his dream of going up and playing in the big league, the Philippine Basketball Associations (PBA) ended.

With his basketball dreams cut short, he instead focused his energy in getting an education and returned to school to finish his degree in Management. The same company where he used to play for during his glory days now employed him as a warehouse supervisor in Paranaque. He now plays pick up basketball in the company’s inter- departmental tournaments where he plays second- fiddle to his much younger teammates.

A position that is a far cry from being the main man that he was so used to, a role that he played with distinction in his glory days.