Bobby Ray Parks Jr.
| No. 1 – Alab Pilipinas | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Point guard / Shooting guard | |||||||||||||||||||||
| League | ASEAN Basketball League | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born |
February 19, 1993 Parañaque, Philippines |
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| Nationality | Filipino / American | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Listed height | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Listed weight | 215 lb (98 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| High school | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| College | National University (2011–2013) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| NBA draft | 2015 / Undrafted | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing career | 2013–present | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2013–2014 | NU-Banco De Oro | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 2014 | NLEX Road Warriors | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 2014–2015 | Hapee Fresh Fighters | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 2015–2016 | Texas Legends | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 2016–present | Alab Pilipinas | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Bobby Ray Parks Jr. (born February 19, 1993) is a Filipino-American professional basketball player for the Alab Pilipinas of the ASEAN Basketball League (ABL). A 6'4" guard, he played three seasons for the NU Bulldogs in the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) before playing for NU-Banco De Oro, NLEX Road Warriors and Hapee Fresh Fighters in the PBA D-League prior to joining the NBA Development League where he played for Texas Legends
Parks was born in Metro Manila to Bobby Parks, Sr. and Marifer Celine Barbosa. His father was playing basketball in the Philippines. Parks Sr. had been drafted 58th overall in the third round of the 1984 NBA draft and went on to become a seven-time Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Best Import awardee and Hall of Famer. Parks Sr. and Barbosa separated. Barbosa moved to Los Angeles in 2003, while Parks Sr. left for Memphis, Tennessee, in 2005. Parks and his younger sister, Celine, remained in the Philippines until 2006, when his sister went to live with their mother, while he went to live with his father and his stepfamily, who were also Filipino.
After moving to Memphis, Parks started playing organized basketball at the age of 13. As a freshman and sophomore, he attended St. George's Independent School in Collierville, Tennessee, where he was named Tennessee's Division II-A Mr. Basketball as the state's private school player of the year in 2009.
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