In high school, Araña played for the Colegio de San Lorenzo Baby Griffins in the NCRAA.

[2] As a member of the DLSU Green Archers, Araña got to team up with TY Tang and Mac Cardona, who he looked up to,[2] and joined a rookie class that included JVee Casio and Jerwin Gaco.

[5] In 2006, he was no longer eligible to reenroll at La Salle after failing 24 units, ending his college career.

[2] In 2009, he scored a career-high 25 points in a loss to the Burger King Whoppers, but missed what could have been the game-winning free throw.

[11] In 2013, Araña and Rain or Shine import Bruno Šundov each scored 20 points to lead the team to a win over Meralco.

[17] Despite his return, Rain or Shine failed to win the championship, and the San Mig Coffee Mixers became Philippine Cup champions.

In a preseason game, Araña and NLEX Road Warrior center Enrico Villanueva got into a scuffle near the end of the first quarter.

[22] After game 3 of the finals, he was challenged by the Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters' import Ivan Johnson to a fight in the Araneta Coliseum hallway.

[28] In Game 5 of the 2015–16 Philippine Cup semifinals, he scored eight points, five rebounds, and five assists against his former team as SMB coasted to the win.

[7] From there, SMB made it to the finals, and despite losing star player June Mar Fajardo for four games, and going down 0–3, they were still able to win the championship.

[30] In a Christmas Day game against the Blackwater Elite, he scored 19 points (with seven of those in overtime) to help Mahindra get its first win of the season.

[38] Prior to entering the PBA bubble for the 2020 season, his father passed away, in the same year he lost his father-in-law.

During the season in the bubble's hotel rooms, he opened a sari-sari store with teammate Beau Belga,[39] and pranked different PBA players by dressing up as Sadako from 'The Ring'.

In his second year in the league, he started wearing pink shoes in honor of his aunt who is a survivor of breast cancer.

[49] With the positive feedback from social media, he continued wearing those shoes and donated half of his bonuses to a breast cancer foundation.

[52] In October of that same year, he, along with teammates Jeric Teng and Jonathan Grey, dressed up as characters from the Netflix series 'Money Heist'.