Kobe Paras
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| Position | Shooting guard / Small forward | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | Big West Conference | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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September 19, 1997 Quezon City, Philippines |
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| Nationality | Filipino | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Listed height | 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Listed weight | 200 lb (91 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kobe Lorenzo Forster Paras (born September 19, 1997) is a Filipino college basketball player for the Cal State Northridge Matadors. He played for the Philippine 3x3 basketball team. He committed to play in the United States for UCLA starting in 2016–17, but withdrew after the UCLA admissions department issued an academic decision to bar him from playing at UCLA. He is the son of Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) legend Benjie Paras.
Paras entered Cathedral High School in Los Angeles in the middle of the 2013-14 school year where he played for the school's basketball team, the Phantoms. Prior to entering Cathedral, Paras attended La Salle Greenhills in the Philippines where he also played for the institution's basketball team. However, Paras decided against playing for the Phantoms for the 2015-16 school year. He would have only been eligible to play for the Phantoms until the first semester due to an eight semester limit. The eligibility limitation was due to the difference between academic years in the Philippines and the United States. He instead decided to play for Middlebrooks Academy prep team for his final year in high school while continuing to attend Cathedral. Middlebrooks is not regulated by California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) regulation, which allowed Paras to avoid the conflict between school years.
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Paras committed to attend college at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and play for their Bruins basketball team. In October 2015, he signed a National Letter of Intent to join the team under coach Steve Alford, and later formally signed on November 12, 2015.
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