Yeng Guiao

Joseller "Yeng" Medina Guiao (born March 19, 1959) is a Filipino professional basketball head coach, politician, commentator and sports commissioner.

He is currently the head coach of the Rain or Shine Elasto Painters of the Philippine Basketball Association.

He previously served as the interim head coach of the Philippine national team.

He entered the coaching ranks in the 1980s.

Prior to his PBA coaching career, Guiao was the head coach of the Swift franchise in the Philippine Amateur Basketball League with Alvin Patrimonio as one of its top stars.

Guiao won seven PBA titles since starting his head coaching job for Swift in the early 1990s.

The RFM franchise entered the PBA in 1990, as Pop Cola, joining market rival Pepsi.

Guiao was the team's first head coach and led the renamed Diet Sarsi to its first finals appearance, losing to Purefoods Tender Juicy Hotdog in the 1991 All-Filipino Finals.

In the 1992 Third Conference, he led Swift to their first championship with a 4–0 sweep of 7-Up in the championship.

It was also Guiao's first championship in the PBA.

He would also led the Mighty Meaties squad to two finals appearances in 1993 and 1994, losing to San Miguel and Alaska.

In 1995, Guiao and then-Pepsi mentor Derrick Pumaren were involved in rare coach for coach trade.

While Pumaren led the rechristened Sunkist Orange Juicers to two championships that year, Guiao had two forgettable seasons with Pepsi and then-renamed as Mobiline before leaving his coaching position in 1996.

He is a former Philippine Basketball League commissioner from 1997 to 2000.

In 2000, Guiao made his PBA coaching return for the Batang Red Bull Energizers.

Despite poor performances in the All-Filipino and Commissioner's Cup, he coached the Thunder to a third-place finish in the 2000 Governors' Cup.

In 2001, he would lead Red Bull to its first PBA title by defeating San Miguel 4–2 in the Commissioner's Cup finals with Antonio Lang as import.

The series was marred by physical play between both teams and also Guiao's famous "San Miguel has never beat us with a complete lineup" line, during the series.

It was a reference to the PBA suspending Kerby Raymundo and Junthy Valenzuela in Games 3 and 4, respectively as the Beermen won both games.

Guiao would later repeat the same feat in 2002 Commissioner's Cup, leading Red Bull to a seven-game series victory over Talk 'N Text to defend its championship won a year ago.

Red Bull had a two-season title drought, despite several respectable finishes during those seasons.

He was also the Vice Governor of the Province of Pampanga from 2004 to 2013, serving three different Governors, Mark Lapid, Eddie Panlilio and Lilia Pineda.

But in the 2005-06 PBA season, he coached the Bulls to the 2005-06 Fiesta Conference Championship, defeating Purefoods in six games and a runner-up finish in the 2006 Philippine Cup, losing to the same Purefoods team, 4–2.

In the 2006-07 Philippine Cup, Guiao led the Bulls to its ninth semifinals appearance in franchise history but lost to San Miguel in seven games.

The series saw physical confrontation between teams, even Guiao was ejected in Game 6 for elbowing Dondon Hontiveros and getting involved in a verbal exchange with SMB assistant coach Pido Jarencio.

The Barakos, with a depleted line-up, snatched a slot in semi-finals after it swept powerhouse team Magnolia Beverage Masters 2–0 in best of three quarterfinals of the 2007-2008 Philippine Cup.

In 2008, Guiao resigned as Barako Bull head coach.

In 2009, he was signed by the Burger King Whoppers as the new head coach of the team.

After his contract expired on December 31, 2010, he signed with the Rain or Shine Elasto Painters to become their head coach.

As the coach of the Elasto Painters, he helped the team first by making them appear in the Semi-Finals for the first time in Franchise history in the 2010-2011 Governor's Cup.

The 2011-2012 Philippine Cup, the Elasto Painters, with prize rookie Paul Lee and the resurgence of Jeff Chan and Gabe Norwood showed their improvement by making it to the semifinals once again and were one game away from its first PBA Finals appearance before falling to Powerade in seven games.

After a forgetful Commissioner's Cup, the Elasto Painters bounced back in the Governors' Cup and topped the elimination round.

The team went on to face San Mig Coffee Mixers (then known as the B-Meg Llamados), with Paul Lee out of the series Yeng and the Elasto Painter found ways to beat the Llamados, the Elasto Painters went up 3–1 before the Llamados won 2 straight games to force Game 7.

The Elasto Painters won Game 7 and also won their first PBA Title.

Guiao once again led the Rain or Shine Elasto Painters to its 2nd straight (2nd overall) finals appearance once again, but lost to the Talk N Text Tropang Texters in a 4-game sweep.

Guiao again led the Rain or Shine Elasto Painters to the finals for the 3rd time (3rd overall), but lost to the San Mig Super Coffee Mixers in 6 games of the Philippine Cup and then again in the Governors Cup for the 4th time (4th overall) in the final game of the series against the same team.

Guiao would lead Rain or Shine Elasto Painters to the finals of Commissioner's Cup for the 5th time (5th overall), but once again lost in the final game of the series against the Talk N Text Tropang Texters.

He is a former congressman, representing the 1st District of Pampanga from 2013 to 2016.

Guiao is the son of former Pampanga Governor, the late Bren Z. Guiao.

He was an alumnus of La Salle Green Hills and studied industrial engineering at the University of the Philippines Diliman, where he was a member of the Senior Men's Varsity Basketball team.