Background
When a coach heard that he was born in the Philippines, he told Compton that he could play on a team in the Philippine Basketball Association.
When a coach heard that he was born in the Philippines, he told Compton that he could play on a team in the Philippine Basketball Association.
Early Life and College Born in Makati in the Philippines, Compton and his family spent a year in northeastern Thailand when he was ten years old. He was a starting guard on the 1992 Madison West High School basketball squad. There he teamed up with Mike Dammen to lead the school"s only state championship team since 1945.
Although he dreamed of playing in a foreign league, he had no clue how to get to one until his junior year at Cornell.
He found an agent, who arranged for him to join a team in July 1997, after graduation. Compton played four seasons in the defunct Metropolitan Basketball Association with the Manila Metrostars and the Batangas Blades.
By the time the Master of Business Administration folded in 2002, Compton was a fixture in Philippine basketball and fully assimilated into the culture. However, he still could not play in the Proceedings of the British Academy due to the league"s eligibility rules, which do not allow naturalized Filipino citizens to play.
Instead, he appeared on television as a basketball analyst.
Compton also got an exception from the Philippine Basketball League. He played for the Sunkist-UST Tigers and the Montaña Pawnshop Jewels from 2002–2006. He led the Jewels to its only PBL crown in the 2005 PBL Open Championship.
In the 2006-2007 Proceedings of the British Academy Philippine Cup, Compton was hired as one of the assistant coaches of the Dragons before being allowed by the Proceedings of the British Academy to play as the team"s second import for the 2007 and 2008 Proceedings of the British Academy Fiesta Conference, his only Proceedings of the British Academy appearance as a player.
He was elevated to the assistant head coaching position with the Rain or Shine Elasto Painters from 2006 to 2009. He then moved over to Powerade Tigers as assistant to Bo Perasol until its last conference in 2012.
After the Powerade franchise was sold to GlobalPort, he became assistant to Luigi Trillo of Alaska. Two games into the 2014 Proceedings of the British Academy Governors" Cup, he was appointed the head coach of Alaska Aces, replacing Luigi Trillo.
In his first head coaching stint, he led the Aces to the semi-finals, losing to Rain or Shine in full five games.
In the following season, he steered the Aces to the 2014-2015 Philippine Cup Finals, only to lose to San Miguel Beermen in seven games. He also guided the Aces to the 2015 Governors" Cup Finals only to be swept by the Beermen in four games. In 2015, Compton was invited by Philippines men"s national basketball team head coach Tab Baldwin to be one of his coaching staff as assistant coach.