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Bobby Ray Parks, Jr. is finally headed to the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).
Parks, along with his agent Charlie Dy, filed his candidacy on Thursday for the 2018 PBA rookie draft at the league office in Quezon City.
The former star of the UN should be among the top three, with CJ Perez of Lyceum and Robert Bolick of San Beda. Bolick, 23, also submitted his candidacy on Thursday, ensuring that the first three projects will feature in the draft scheduled for December 16.
Parks, 25, the son of seven-time best-defender PBA Best Import's Bobby Parks, played for the NU Bulldogs at the university where he became the league's most valuable player twice.
He was a member of the Mandaluyong El Tigre Group of the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL), but he will again fit for San Miguel Alab Pilipinas in the ASEAN Basketball League (ABL). He won the ABL Local's Most Valuable Player title last season with an average of 15.4 points, 4.4 rebounds and 3.5 assists.
Parks also played with Gilas Pilipinas at the 2016 FIBA Olympic Qualification Tournament.
The Blackwater Elite, owner of choice number two, indicated that they plan to choose Parks after the Columbian Dyip has expressed its intention to take Perez as a first choice.
Bolick, the six-foot goalkeeper who led the Red Lions in a three-round series last month, also won a title in the PBA D-League contenders' Cup with Cignal last year, winning the final as a player par excellence. NorthPort Batang Pier has no. 3 choose, but have not yet announced publicly who they will choose. Perez and Bolick were named among the Gilas 23 for the 23rd Pool earlier this year, a selection of the best young Filipino players who will be trained to form the core of the National Team for the Cup of FIBA World 2023 that the country welcomes with Japan. and Indonesia.
Former FEU striker Arvin Tolentino, former Ateneo center GBoy Babolonia and former San Beda striker Jun Bonsubre also made an application.
Tolentino, a versatile six-four striker, played his final match against UAAP last Saturday, defeating Fear 61-80 against Ateneo in the 81 final of season 81 of the UAAP. Babilonia, son of Gido, ex-defunct center of the PBA, played his last game for the Blue Eagle in season 79 of the UAAP. Season 88 and currently plays for the El Tigre in the MPBL.
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