He was selected 9th Overall Pick during the 2008 PBA Rookie Draft by the San Miguel Beermen. He struggled as he played a backup role under long time veteran Olsen Racela. But then, he was promoted as the team's starting point guard when former no. 1 draft pick Mike Cortez fell into a season-ending injury and the team's long-time floor leader Olsen Racela's game starting to fade away.
In the 2008-09 PBA season, he was awarded the Most Improved Player award. He won the Fern-C Finals MVP honor after winning the 2009 PBA Fiesta Conference Championship with San Miguel.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Villanueva)
He is currently playing as the back-up point guard of B-Meg Derby Ace Llamados. I was actually surprised when I read that he was traded for Paul Artadi. But the news got me excited at the same time as I really find him a great guard aside from being good looking hehehe plus the fact that he'd be playing now for my favorite team ever since Coney Island days. So far this conference, he is averaging 12.4 points per game, 3.4 rebounds per game, 3.7 assists per game and 1.1 steals per game; pretty much an all around performance. It was a lopsided trade indeed for me, B-meg steals that one but some of the parokyanos of B-meg feel that Paul Artadi's luck and energy are quite a loss. Nonetheless, it doesn't matter as long as B-meg really benefited on what Jonas can bring to the table, better in terms of scoring and executing plays compared to Artadi . Besides his talent is not being utilized well by San Miguel Beermen anyway. It's evenmore exciting now to see B-meg playing in the flesh, hehe team gwapo composed of James Yap, PJ Simon, Kerby Raymundo, Marc Pingris, Roger Yap, Rico Maeirhofer, Jondan Salvador and of course Jonas Villanueva.
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