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Program/Section: BS Psychology 2A

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Search 10 New Faces and New Generation of Basketball Players in the Philippines

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New Generation Players Profile

1. Kiefer Ravena Kiefer Ravena was born on October 27, 1993 in Iloilo. Ravena's
father, Bong Ravena played for the UE Red Warriors and was the
1992 PBA Rookie of the year while his mother, Mozzy Crisologo-
Ravena, was a volleyball player who used to play for the UST
Golden Tigresses and the Philippines women's national volleyball
team. He is the eldest of three siblings. In June 2016, he graduated
from the Ateneo de Manila University with a Bachelor's degree in
Communications Technology Management. During his guesting on
the radio show, The Morning Rush, he revealed that he was named
after his father's favorite actor, Kiefer Sutherland.

A Filipino professional basketball player for Shiga Lakestars of the

Japanese B. League. Ravena played for the Ateneo Blue Eagles of
the UAAP during his college days. He plays the point guard position.

The son of former PBA player Bong Ravena, Ravena enjoyed a

successful high school basketball career at the Ateneo de Manila
High School in Loyola Heights, Quezon City where he was
recognized as one of the top high school basketball players in the
Philippines.

Ravena is a three-time UAAP Juniors Champion (2008, 2009 and

2010), two-time UAAP Juniors Finals MVP (2009 and 2010), two-
time UAAP Juniors Mythical Team member (2009 and 2010), one-
time FIBA Asia U-18 Mythical Team member (2010), two-time
UAAP Seniors Champion (2011 and 2012) and three-time UAAP
Seniors Mythical Team member (2011, 2014 and 2015). He is also
the UAAP Season 74 Rookie of the Year and the UAAP Season 77
and 78 Most Valuable Player recipient. At the 2011, 2013, 2015,
2017 and 2019 Southeast Asian Games, he won gold medals as a
member of Gilas Pilipinas.

2. Thirdy Ravena Ferdinand "Thirdy" Crisologo Ravena III was born on December 17,
1996 in Iloilo City, Philippines. He is the son of Bong Ravena, who
played for the UE Red Warriors and was the 1992 PBA Rookie of
the year and Mozzy Crisologo-Ravena, a retired volleyball player
who used to play for the UST Golden Tigresses and the Philippines
women's national volleyball team. He is also the younger brother
of Kiefer Ravena, who is currently playing for the Shiga Lakestars,
also in Japan's B.League, and the older brother of Dani Ravena,
who is currently playing for the Ateneo Lady Eagles.

A Filipino professional basketball player for San-en NeoPhoenix of

the Japanese B.League. Ravena played for the Ateneo Blue Eagles
of the UAAP during his college days. He plays the shooting guard
position.

Ravena has played for the Philippine national team at the 2019
FIBA Basketball World Cup Asian qualifiers. On June 24, 2020, San-
en NeoPhoenix of the B.League announced that it has signed in
Ravena for the 2020–21 season. He is the first ever player to be
signed-in under the league's Asian Player Quotas system which
involve non-Japanese Asian imports. Due to travel restrictions
imposed as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Ravena was
only able to leave the Philippines for Japan in October 2020.
 In his debut for the San-en NeoPhoenix, he put up 13 points, 3
rebounds, and 3 assists in an 83-82 win over the Shimane Susanoo
Magic. On November 27, 2020, Ravena tested positive for COVID-
19 after exhibiting fever which temporarily sidelined him from
playing. He rejoined NeoPhoenix, after the team announced that
he has recovered by December 11. In January 2021, Thirdy Ravena
suffered a finger fracture and missed at least 3 months of B-league
games. Ravena played 18 games in his first year with the
NeoPhoenix, averaging 9.1 points, 3.6 rebounds, and 1.6 assists in
22.8 minutes per game.
3. Kobe Paras Kobe Lorenzo Forster Paras (born September 19, 1997) is a Filipino
professional basketball player for Niigata Albirex BB of the
Japanese B.League. Listed at 6 feet 6 inches (1.98 m) and 200
pounds (91 kg), he plays the small forward position. He has been a
member of the Philippine national team and the national 3x3 team.

Paras committed to play in the United States at the University of

California, Los Angeles, but withdrew after the university's
admissions department determined he did not meet their
academic requirements. Instead, he played his freshman year for
the Creighton University in 2016–17 before transferring to Cal
State Northridge where he redshirted. However, he left Cal State
Northridge to play college basketball for the UP Fighting Maroons
of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP). 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 Mandaluyong 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.

Paras prepped at Cathedral in Los Angeles, CA before playing his

senior year at Middlebrooks Academy. In high school, he was an
honor roll student, a member of the National Honor Society, a Star
Scholar Honoree and a summa cum laude graduate. At Cathedral,
he averaged 15.0 points, 4.3 rebounds and 2.5 steals as a junior
and was an All-State nominee, First Team All-Del Rey League and
ranked the 24th-best player in California by CalHiSports. Helped
lead Cathedral to the Regional Championship game (State Final 4)
and the team finished ranked No. 9 in the state and No. 1 in
Division 3A of the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF). In
2015–16, Paras played his senior campaign with Middlebrooks
Academy where he earned a McDonald's All-American Game
nomination and the PEC-6 Conference MVP Award and helped lead
Middlebrooks to the regular season PEC-6 Conference
championship. He participated in several elite basketball
showcases, including Adidas Nations and the Adidas All-American
Camp. Also played travel basketball with Compton Magic on the
Adidas grassroots circuit and was selected to the Adidas All-
American Camp and the international elite showcase Adidas
Nations.
4. Dwight Ramos Dwight Ramos (born September 2, 1998) is a Filipino-American
professional basketball player for Toyama Grouses of the Japanese
B.League. He played college basketball for the Ateneo Blue Eagles
of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP). He
has also played for the Philippines national basketball team.
 Ramos was born on September 2, 1998, in the United States in
West Covina, California to Artemio Ramos from Ilocos Sur and Liliya
Ramos from Russia. He is the eldest of three children.

Ramos has been a prospective member of the Philippines national

team by its management as early 2018, when he was included in a
23-member pool intended for the 2023 FIBA World Cup. He
debuted for the Philippines in February 2020, playing in the 2021
FIBA Asia Cup qualifier match against Indonesia. The Philippines
won 100–70 in that match with Ramos contributing 5 points, 5
rebounds, and 2 steals. Ramos played with a squad reinforced by
PBA players in the first window of the qualifiers. Due to the COVID-
19 pandemic, subsequent qualifier matches were repeatedly
postponed with Ramos flying back and forth between the
Philippines and the United States, usually training in the latter
where pandemic-related protocols are more lenient.
5. Bobby Ray Parks Jr. Bobby Ray Barbosa Parks Jr. (born February 19, 1993) is a Filipino-
American professional basketball player for Nagoya Diamond
Dolphins of the Japanese B.League. A 6'4" guard, he played college
basketball for the NU Bulldogs for three years before declaring for
the NBA draft in 2015 where he went undrafted.

Parks was born in Parañaque, 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.

Parks transferred to Melrose High School for the 2009–10 season

and helped his team win a class AAA state championship. In
November 2010, he committed to Georgia Tech as the No. 31-
ranked shooting guard in the class of 2011, but later recommitted
and followed his father back to the Philippines.
6. Jeron Teng Jeron Alvin Uy Teng (born March 21, 1994) is a Filipino professional
basketball player for the Alaska Aces of the Philippine Basketball
Association (PBA). As a PBA player, he usually starts at the
swingman position but occasionally plays as a power forward
during the Philippine Cup. A renowned prodigy, he holds multiple
high school records for the Xavier Golden Stallions. After his
famous high school career, he played for the De La Salle Green
Archers in the UAAP with equally great success. He won a couple
UAAP championships as the team captain and has the rare
distinction of simultaneously winning two UAAP finals MVP
awards.

Jeron is the youngest among four siblings: Alyssa, Jeric, and Almira
in that order. His father, Alvin Teng, is a former player in the
Philippine Basketball Association who won multiple titles as a
member of the San Miguel Beermen. His older brother Jeric, was a
former collegiate basketball star who played for the UST Growling
Tigers. Jeric would later win a PBA championship playing the two
guard for the Rain or Shine Elasto Painters.[3] His sister Almira, on
the other hand, pursued a non-athletic career in show business as
a professional model and artist.

Teng was always very religious growing up and frequented the Pink
Sisters Convent to pray and celebrate Mass. As a young child, Jeron
 gained serious interest in basketball after his older brother Jeric
encouraged him to join the Xavier basketball team when he was in
third grade. Teng eventually won his first of many titles that year
in the Metro Manila Tiong Lian Basketball Association (MMTLBA),
one of the premier elementary and high school basketball leagues
in the nation. The Teng brothers were frequently tutored by the
power forward Alvin, who recommended that they instead
develop skills associated with the guard position. The move would
later prove to be crucial for the development of the two future PBA
players.

Like his older brother Jeric, Jeron played high school basketball for
Xavier School. He led the Golden Stallions to two MMTLBA
championships and won for himself the season MVP award in his
three seasons with the team. In 2011, Teng broke what was then
the all-time Philippine record for points in a single game by scoring
104 points in a 164–74 win over Grace Christian College in the
Tiong Lian tournament. He simultaneously made 37 field goals, and
also had 24 rebounds and six steals. At that point, no player had
ever scored at least 100 points since Felix Duhig of the Cebu
Institute of Technology hit the mark during a 1990 game in what is
now the Cebu Schools Athletic Foundation, Inc.
7. Andre Paras André Alonzo Forster Paras (born November 1, 1995) is a Filipino
professional basketball player for the Blackwater Bossing of the
Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). He is the son of former PBA
player Benjie Paras and brother of Kobe Paras. He is also an actor,
model, dancer and singer. He is the best known for his role as Chad
Jimenez in the film adaptation of Diary ng Panget. Paras is most
seen in GMA Network and most known for playing the role of
Bradley Castillo in the hit melodrama The Half Sisters. After the
success of The Half Sisters, Andre Paras and Barbie Forteza paired
again in that’s My Amboy which aired on 2016.

Paras was born on November 1, 1995 in Quezon City to a PBA

legend Benjie Paras and former actress Jackie Forster. He also has
a younger brother, Kobe, a basketball player who plays for the
Niigata Albirex BB in the Japanese B.League.

Paras played for La Salle Greenhills in high school. In college, he

played for the University of the Philippines (UP) Fighting Maroons
like his father. In 2014, Paras transferred from University of the
Philippines to San Beda College with the intention of playing for the
San Beda Red Lions. After a year of studying in UP and playing as a
rookie for the UP Fighting Maroons, he opted to transfer for not
being able to balance his studies and acting career due to his hectic
work schedule in his drama series The Half Sisters. He also said that
although it was his dream to study in UP, he didn't want to have a
bad reputation in the university.

Paras also said that his departure from the UP didn't become an
issue between him and his erstwhile teammates. The 6-foot-4
Andre will be joining San Beda, which has won four straight NCAA
titles, after going through a winless season with the UP Fighting
Maroons the prior season. Paras would then quit school to pursue
an acting career.
8. Roger Pogoy Roger Ray Pogoy (born June 16, 1992) is a Filipino professional
basketball player for the TNT Tropang Giga of the Philippine
Basketball Association (PBA). He has also represented the
Philippines national team in international competitions.

Pogoy grew up in Talisay, Cebu and was taught basketball by his

father, who was a former basketball player in Mindanao. In high
school, he started as a Team B player. He eventually became a star
for the University of Cebu Junior Webmasters, leading them to the
Cebu Schools Athletic Foundation, Inc. (CESAFI) juniors title in
2008, and claiming the Finals MVP award.[5][6] He joined the
Tamaraws after his father read about the FEU tryouts in Cebu in
the local newspaper, and encouraged him to try out.
 He first played for the FEU Tamaraws in UAAP Season 74. The
Tamaraws made it to the finals that year, but lost to the Ateneo
Blue Eagles in two games. In Season 75, Pogoy had a game where
he scored 17 points and 13 rebounds. The team finished fifth, with
a win–loss record of 9–5. Pogoy returned for Season 76. They lost
in the Final Four to the De La Salle Green Archers. In the Season 77
Finals, Pogoy scored 10 of his 14 points in the third quarter to help
the Tamaraws win Game 1. They eventually lost in 3 games to the
NU Bulldogs.

In Season 78, Pogoy led all scorers in the game that brought them
back to the Finals, scoring 16 points with 10 coming in the second
half. Their opponent in the Finals were the UST Growling Tigers. In
Game 1, Pogoy had 15 points (12 in the first quarter) to lead a
balanced attack to get the win. In Game 2, Pogoy had 12 points but
missed the latter part of the fourth quarter due to cramps. The
Tamaraws lost that game, 62–56. In Game 3, Pogoy scored 14
points to put UST away, winning FEU its first title since 2005. He
graduated after that season.
9. Troy Rosario Jeth Troy U. Rosario (born January 20, 1992) is a Filipino
professional basketball player for the TNT Tropang Giga of the
Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).

Rosario played for two years at Technological Institute of the

Philippines. He left TIP to focus on his stint for the RP Youth Team
then-coached by NU Bulldogs coach Eric Altamirano. Then he
suited for the NU Bulldogs after transferring from TIP. In his final
season with the Bulldogs, he averaged 12.3 points and 8.6
rebounds per game, as his team made history by winning their first
championship since 1954.

After his college career was over, Rosario suited up for the Hapee
Fresh Fighters in the PBA D-League, where he teamed up with
fellow college standouts and future draft batchmates Chris
Newsome, Baser Amer, Scottie Thompson and Garvo Lanete.

Rosario was drafted second overall by the Mahindra Enforcer in the

2015 PBA draft. Two days later, the Enforcers shipped his rights to
the Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters via a complicated three-team
which also involved TNT's sister team, NLEX Road Warriors. On
August 27, 2015, both he and #1 pick Moala Tautuaa signed
maximum three-year rookie contracts with the Talk 'N Text
Tropang Texters worth ₱8.5 million.
10. Robert Bolick Jr. Robert Lee Espina Bolick Jr. (born September 13, 1995) is a Filipino
professional basketball player for the NorthPort Batang Pier of
Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). He played college
basketball for the San Beda Red Lions of the National Collegiate
Athletic Association (Philippines). He plays both point guard and
shooting guard positions.

Bolick played for the La Salle Green Hills Greenies from 2011 to
2012. Bolick averaged a team-high 20.3 points for the Greenies,
including a season-best 41 points against Perpetual Help in his last
season. He also posted marks of 5.2 rebounds, 4.2 assists, 2.6
steals, and 1.2 blocks per outing during his last season for the
Greenies.

Bolick continued his rise by winning the PBA D-League Aspirant's

Cup MVP award with the Cignal HD-San Beda Hawkeyes, defeating
Racal Ceramica in three games winning the 2017 PBA D-League
Aspirant's Cup Championship.

Bolick was picked third overall by the NorthPort Batang Pier of the
Philippine Basketball Association in the 2018 PBA draft.[9] Bolick
signed a two-year max contract with NorthPort just a couple of
days after being selected as the third overall pick by the Batang Pier
in the 2018 PBA Rookie Draft.
In his first game, he scored 10 points in his first six minutes in the
PBA, had nine in the third quarter before adding the finishing
touches in the final frame including a tough step back jumper from
the deep right corner in front of his team’s bench. He debuted with
a game-high 26 points on 10-of-12 shooting from the field on top
of three rebounds and three assists in close to 36 minutes of play,
setting a franchise record for most points scored by a rookie in a
debut.

He became the Batang Pier's first option and was named as the
Player of the Week and the unanimous Rookie of the Month for
June 2019.

On January 31, 2022, Bolick became a restricted free agent after

his contract expired and he did not sign an extension with
NorthPort. He eventually signed a new contract with NorthPort on
February