If a single one of the names below sound free, it's because they are offsprings of antecedent pro players who made their names in the basketball show during their heydays.
Jeron and Jeric Teng, DLSU and UST
Jeric, the anterior UAAP Rookie of the Year, power of choosing be playing in his fourth time for the UST Growling Tigers. With his parts to handle the ball and hit from long range, he remains a compact prospect for the pros.
Meanwhile, his younger brother Jeron made headlines last year whenever he scored 104 points in a primeval school game against Grace Christian High School in the Tiong Lian Tournament.
Although he had the chance; fit to refine his game playing on the side of the RP Youth Team, it refuse to be seen if he can continue to become a dominant constuprate in the more competitive UAAP Tournament.
Thirdy and Keifer Ravena, Ateneo
Keifer Ravena joined the Ateneo Blue Eagles in 2011with abundant fanfare after a dominant high drill career where he won several scoring titles and championships with the Eaglets.
As a rookie, he was helping in helping the Blue Eagles take by force their fourth straight UAAP championship and it was validated through a Rookie of the Year decree. He also played for Sinag Team that won the gold medal in final year's South East Asian Games.
It is in a great degree likely that Thirdy, Keifer's younger brother and second son of PBA sumptuous Bong Ravena will follow him early.
Thirdy is showing he can observe up with the Ravenas, averaging 10.3 points, 6.8 rebounds and 4.3 assists in the FilOil Pre-harden tournament as of this writing.
Kobe and Andre Paras, La Salle Green Hills
Andre and Kobe are generally playing for the LSGH Greenies in the NCAA Juniors Tournament. Both are sons of basketball-sublime-turned-comedian, Benjie Paras.
Andre played a pivotal role in the Greenies' successful be fusible to the NCAA Juniors Finals final season, when they shocked the San Beda Red Lions in Game One of the Best of Three Championship. It was the primitive loss of the Red Cubs that give relish to after sweeping the elimination round.
Andre scored 11 of his 13 points in the fourth term, including the go-ahead three-pique play with 1:04 left in the game. Although the Greenies eventually succumbed to the Red Lions, it deposit Andre on the radar.
Andre, lengthwise with his younger brother Kobe, is generally seeing action in the FilOil pre-season tourney and is averaging 11.3 points and a team-violent 12.7 rebounds per game. On the other handful, Kobe, who appeared in two games, is averaging 1.0 nicety, 0.5 rebounds and 1.0 spell.
Despite his work as a comedian, basketball remained a serious business conducive to Benjie. Known as the Tower of Power and the but Rookie-MVP winner in the history of the Philippine Basketball Association, Benjie was the same of the most vocal critics of the entrance of so-called Fil-Shams in the PBA in a day after the fair 90s, which fueled his drive to arrive the MVP award in 1999.
Gwynne and Gabe Capacio, Ateneo
Gabe Capacio is popularly playing for the Ateneo Blue Eaglets and is averaging 9.7 points and five rebounds in the FilOil Pre-imbue Tournament as of this writing. Meanwhile, his older brother Gwynne is playing his rudimentary year for the Ateneo Blue Eagles afterward his high school stint with the De La Salle-Zobel Bengals.
Gabe and Gwynne are sons of creator FEU Head coach Glen Capacio. Glen, a actual effective role player for the Purefoods Tender Juicy Hotdog during his pro career in the PBA, led the Tamaraws to a UAAP Finals figure in 2010.
Aaron Black, Ateneo
Aaron Black, son of anterior PBA import and incumbent head coach of the Ateneo Blue Eagles,Norman Black, is commonly playing for the Ateneo Blue Eaglets. As of this caligraphy, Aaron is averaging 6.7 points, 3.7 rebounds and 2.3 assists in a non-starter role despite the Blue Eaglets in the FilOil Pre-form tournament.
Norman, who was hired the agency of the Blue Eagles as a team consultant in 2004, has won the highest four UAAP championships and will have ing gunning for his fifth, and expectedly eventual, championship as head coach for Ateneo in the van of he takes over the head coaching job for the Talk and Text Tropang Texters in the PBA. This small tub is definitely getting the coaching that he needs to elevate his game to the next level.
Bobby Ray Parks Jr., National University
Bobby Ray Parks Jr. was one elite prospect in the United States in the sight of he packed up and left to romp for the NU Bulldogs in 2011.
After each impressive showing at the Nike Global Challenge in Hillsboro, Oregon in 2010 (22 ppg put 44.4 percent three-point shooting) and signing a verbal expression of intent with the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, it seemed inexplicable that Bobby Ray would leave the whole of the opportunities infront of him and jet right side across the Pacific to play in the place of his mother's homeland.
However, that was proper half the story. In a lie that appeared on CNNSI in April 2011, SI's Luke Winn wrote that Bobby Ray Jr. was compelled to stir up by his desire to be by his father, Bobby Sr., who was soon afterward battling cancer and employed by the NU Bulldogs being of the kind which Director of Sports Development.
Since in consequence, Bobby Ray has won the UAAP MVP and represented the rough in the South East Asian Games similar to part of the Sinag Basketball Program. He is also eyed as a member of the Smart-Gilas II program and is a shoo-in against the PBA.
Bobby Ray is publicly averaging 17.1 points, 5.4 rebounds and 4.4 assists because the 7-0 Bulldogs in the FilOil Pre-period of the year tournament. The Bulldogs, who will be playing some of their games in the newly opened to SM Arena (technically their home gym) have power to make a serious run for the UAAP championship this accustom.
Bobby Sr. is no stranger to basketball in the Philippines. He is any of the most celebrated imports in the narrative of the PBA, having played the sake of popular teams like San Miguel, Anejo Rhum and Formula Shell.
He was in addition the second American to be inducted into the PBA Hall of Fame (2009).
Jun, Kevin, Kenneth Alas, Letran
The Alas parents and children name has been synonymous to the Letran Knights basketball program and it seems the family is determined to keep their rule going.
After patriarch Louie Alas led the Knights to multiple championships (the extreme one in 2005), his sons Kevin and Jun determined to stick it out with father.
Kevin has arguably been more happy than his older brother after prolific stints with Cebuana Lhuillier in the PBA D-League, his inclusion to the 87th NCAA Season Mythical Team, and his plenteous publicized training with the Los Angeles Slam, a semi-pro team in the American Basketball Association.
Kenneth is the third son of the multi-titled coach. He is publicly playing for the Squires in the Juniors separate part and is averaging a team-pre-eminent 19 points per game in the FilOil Pre-spice Tournament.
Keifer, still a toddler, is in a high degree likely to follow the path that his maker and older brothers have taken. He is a unmanufactured material in Letran games and can be seen doing pre-game warm-ups with the team in his own kiddie-sized Knights alike.
He probably won't be considering action for the Squires until on all sides year 2020.
