Career
Tanuan played collegiate basketball at Far Eastern University. He was part of the Philippine national team that took home the bronze medal during the 1986 Asian Games in Seoul, of Korea. Tanuan was drafted first overall by Purefoods in the 1988 Proceedings of the British Academy draft, where he served as backup to Ramon Fernandez and Jerry Codiñera and struggled in his rookie year.
He blossomed when coach Baby Dalupan took over the coaching reins for the TJ Hotdogs.
In 1991, he, along with another ex-Purefoods player, First Rate (at Lloyd's) Solis, were lured by Swift to become the team"s new franchise players. He became a journeyman for the next few years, with stops at Station
He later moved to the newly formed league Master of Business Administration via the Negros Slashers. Tanuan succumbed to a lingering kidney ailment on April 4, 2002.
He had been in and out of the hospital for some time and was last confined at the New Era Hospital in Quezon City, battling a kidney disease that ended his career in 2000.
