Will McAloney
William Bill McAloney Jr. is a Filipino-Canadian professional basketball player for the Nueva Ecija Rice Vanguards of the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League.
In his collegiate career, he played for Emilio Aguinaldo College–Cavite and University of San Carlos; the latter with which he won the Cebu Schools Athletic Foundation, Inc. basketball championship in 2015.
In 2018, he joined the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League as a member of the expansion Cebu City Sharks. In 2019, after playing for the Marinerong Pilipino Skippers of the PBA D-League he was selected 15th overall in the 2019 PBA draft by the NLEX Road Warriors. In 2021, McAloney was traded to the Blackwater Bossing but parted ways in 2022. In 2022, he joined the Nueva Ecija Rice Vanguards franchise, where he won a FilBasket championship, an List of [MPBL champions|MPBL championship], and got two nods to the All-MPBL First Team. He also won All-Star Game MVP and was selected as an all-star in the MPBL three times, all as a starter.
College and amateur career
McAloney first played college basketball for Emilio Aguinaldo College–Cavite. After finishing his undergraduate studies, he returned to Cebu to play for the University of San Carlos, where he would eventually win a CESAFI championship in 2015.In 2018, he joined the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League in its second season, playing for the Cebu City Sharks. Although he averaged 9.4 points in the season, he would breakout in the following 2019–20 season. McAloney was selected as an all-starter for the 2020 MPBL All-Star Game, and averaged a double-double that season. During this time, McAloney was also tapped by the Marinerong Pilipino Skippers to compete with the team in the PBA D-League.