Top 10 Pba Imports

[garfield23]

1 michael hackett

2 billy ray bates

3 bobby parks

4 tony harris

5 derek hamilton

6 sean chambers

7 norman black

8 dexter shouse

9 joe ward

10 david thirdkill

[nastynate]

1. Bobby Parks

2. Sean Chambers

3. Lamont Strothers

4. Norman Black

5. Michael Hackett

 

Best Individual Performer - Tony Harris

[MRyoso]

harris

thompkins

chambers

strothers

parks

mott

redfield

 

yun lang kilala ko eh..

[Ryuken_GSM]

my TOP10 PBA imports are:

1.billy ray bates

2.michael hackett

3.jamie waller

4.joe ward

5.darren queenan

6.wes matthews

7.carlos briggs

8.chris king

9.henry james

10.kevin gamble(played only in 1 game in ginebra uniform)

 

my supporting cast of imports are:

11.tony harris

12.rob williams

13.bobby parks

14.sean chambers

15.norman black

 

 

 

BR

[chillout416]

my TOP10 PBA imports are:

1.billy ray bates

2.michael hackett

3.jamie waller

4.joe ward

5.darren queenan

6.wes matthews

7.carlos briggs

8.chris king

9.henry james

10.kevin gamble(played only in 1 game in ginebra uniform)

 

my supporting cast of imports are:

11.tony harris

12.rob williams

13.bobby parks

14.sean chambers

15.norman black

BR

 

Mukhang die-hard ginebra fan ka ah :cool:

[Jojo_I]

Ten is too much, here is my top five:

 

1) Norman Black - in my opinion the best import that ever played. Plays hard on both offense and defense.

2) Bobby Parks - he has won more "best import" trophies than anyone else.

3) Michael Hackett - not many imports can claim they scored 104 points or grabbed 48 rebounds (done separately) in a single game.

4) Tony Harris - he still holds the record for most points in a single game. and, i think he's had more 70+ points games than anyone else.

5) Sean Chambers - not as high scoring and not as flashy as the others but one of the most hardnose, no-nonsense players around. can always be depended upon to deliver when needed.

[denimhead]

bates

parks

chambers

hackett

black

shouse

gamble

[juandelacruzband]

Andy Fields

Bates

Snake Jones

Harris

Williams (the guy who couldn't miss from 3-poit range)

Hackett

Black

Chambers

Parks

Ward

[Knights_joshua]

Billy ray bates pa rin ang the best

[Knights_joshua]

billy ray bates

michaek hackett

tony white

harris

ward

black

chamber

shouse

parks

briggs

[parts_unknown]

eric brown(photog talaga to d ko alam kung bat naging import ng purefoods)

agee ward(smb scored his career high 2 points in 30 minutes of action)isang laro lang siya

serious si ronnie thompkins nung d p adik

[einglebert]

Kenny Redfield

Tony Harris

Sean Chambers

Lamont Strothers

Derrick Brown

Devin Davis

Ronnie Thompkins

Tee McClary

Bobby Parks

Lenny Cooke

[donbh]

1. Billy Ray Bates

2. Michael Hackett

3. Andy Fields

4. Tony Harris

[jason5678]

1.billy ray bates

2.michael hackett

3.jamie waller

4.joe ward

5.darren queenan

6.wes matthews

7.carlos briggs

8.chris king

9.henry james

10.kevin gamble

[ray004]

THE METEOR

Billy Ray Bates, Trail Blazer guard

BY DAVE FITZPATRICK | dfitzpatrick at wweek.com

 

[November 10th, 2004] Once, Billy Ray Bates held the world in his hands as surely as he held a basketball.

After signing a 10-day contract with the Trail Blazers in 1980, the high-flying 6-foot-4, 210-pound guard slam-dunked his way into league history. During his rookie year in the NBA, he led the Blazers in scoring, taking it to the hole for an average of 25 points per game.

 

It was a heady time for a Mississippi farm boy, the eighth of nine children, who got his start shooting hoops at Kentucky State University, followed by the Maine Lumberjacks of the long defunct Continental Basketball Association.

 

Throughout 1981, Bates--nicknamed Dunk--continued his rise to stardom, thrilling fans with his aerial exploits. Then, one day in September 1982, his agent called. He'd been cut from the team.

 

Bates checked into a Portland hospital, where he sought drug treatment.

 

Bates played briefly with the Washington Bullets, before they let him go. He had a 10-day trial with the Lakers, but at 25 pounds overweight, that didn't work out either. In fact, he never played in the NBA again.

 

He did play for two seasons in the Philippines, where he recaptured his former glory.

 

"Those people, they loved me," he later told The Oregonian. "There, I was like Michael Jordan. I could have anything I wanted. All I had to do was snap my fingers. I had my own condo, my own car and my own bodyguard with an Uzi. Had to fight off the women."

 

It didn't last. Bates later played in Switzerland, back in the U.S with the World Basketball League, the Philippines again, a few seasons in Mexico--even a season in Uruguay. But he never seemed to prosper for long.

 

Bates hit bottom on Jan. 17, 1998, when he robbed a New Jersey Texaco station at knifepoint, slashing the ear of attendant Philip Kittel in the process.

 

The crime netted Bates a grand total of five bucks--and seven years in prison.

 

Today, Bates is an inmate at Hope Hall, a 164-bed halfway house for adult male offenders in Camden, N.J. During his stay, he has taken part in classes designed to mend damaged cognitive skills, ready himself for the workplace and learn how to manage his emotions.

 

"This is one of the best facilities for...what's the word? Recovery!" says Bates, now 48.

 

In the past, Bates has been vague about the root of his difficulties. In a 1992 interview with The Oregonian, for example, he denied having drug problems. But he now blames the gas-station robbery on cocaine and alcohol.

 

"I went to play the lottery," he says. "And that's when the devil got inside me."

 

According to Bates, he'd been hanging out with some younger friends that day, "trying to help them with their lives." Instead, he wound up drinking vodka, snorting cocaine, and holding up a Texaco.

 

"That's not my character," he explains. "I was doing cocaine and drinking."

 

At Hope Hall, Bates juggles church attendance, AA meetings and shifts at Aluminum Shapes, an aluminum extruder, where he readies products for shipping.

 

In the evenings, he studies reading and writing at Camden Community College. In fact, he says, he's written a book, Born to Play Basketball, which he hopes to publish when he's released.

 

But his burning ambition is to get back on the boards as a Portland Trail Blazer.

 

"I'm trying to reapply myself in the NBA," he explains. "I been watching for the last 15 years, and I haven't seen anyone who can put the ball in the hoop like me."

 

At the time of his arrest, Bates weighed only 26 pounds more than in his rookie year. "I'm in great shape," he insists. "Prison basketball is a lot more physical than the NBA. There's no whistle out there."

 

Though his checkered past seems in keeping with the Blazers' tarnished image, it remains unclear whether he will get a chance to don the red-and-black. Authorities peg his current release for March 23, 2005, just three days after the regular season ends.

 

Nevertheless, Bates is looking to the future. "I'm rehabilitated," he says. "I'm stronger than I've ever been. To all the Blazer Mania fans, I'll see you in 2005."

[jetrink]

In no particular order:

Norman Black

Billy Ray Bates

Bobby Parks

Sean Chambers

Tony Harris

David Thirdkill

Cyrus Mann

Andy Fields

Ennis Whatley

Michael Phelps

 

notables:

Carlos Briggs

Donnie Ray Koonce

Michael Hackett

[Ven22]

Michael Hackett

Billy Ray Bates

Tony Harris

WesMatthews

Bobby Parks

 

Rob Williams

Tony Lang

Thompkins of Swift

Lamont Strothers

Ennis Whatley

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Ayaw nyo ba si Andrew Moten?! na nagsabi na "They dont play basketball here! They play football! (nabalya siguro ni Jawo! )

 

 

lamont strothers smb

kenny travis smb

bobby parks shell

tony harris swift

norman black

billy ray bates

[padrelation]

alvarado

taulava

[ixnay]

alvarado

taulava

 

 

nice joke!....

 

for the topic...

 

1. norman black

2. lamont strothers

3. bobby parks

4. michael hackett

5. billy ray bates :thumbsupsmiley:

[agentjackbauer]

1.billy ray bates

2.michael hackett

3.jamie waller

4.joe ward

5.darren queenan

6.wes matthews

7.carlos briggs

8.chris king

9.henry james

10.kevin gamble

 

 

Eto rin list ko, pro-Ginebra/Anejo, he he :hypocritesmiley:

[Agent_mulder]

THE METEOR

Billy Ray Bates, Trail Blazer guard

BY DAVE FITZPATRICK | dfitzpatrick at wweek.com

 

[November 10th, 2004] Once, Billy Ray Bates held the world in his hands as surely as he held a basketball.

After signing a 10-day contract with the Trail Blazers in 1980, the high-flying 6-foot-4, 210-pound guard slam-dunked his way into league history. During his rookie year in the NBA, he led the Blazers in scoring, taking it to the hole for an average of 25 points per game.

 

It was a heady time for a Mississippi farm boy, the eighth of nine children, who got his start shooting hoops at Kentucky State University, followed by the Maine Lumberjacks of the long defunct Continental Basketball Association.

 

Throughout 1981, Bates--nicknamed Dunk--continued his rise to stardom, thrilling fans with his aerial exploits. Then, one day in September 1982, his agent called. He'd been cut from the team.

 

Bates checked into a Portland hospital, where he sought drug treatment.

 

Bates played briefly with the Washington Bullets, before they let him go. He had a 10-day trial with the Lakers, but at 25 pounds overweight, that didn't work out either. In fact, he never played in the NBA again.

 

He did play for two seasons in the Philippines, where he recaptured his former glory.

 

"Those people, they loved me," he later told The Oregonian. "There, I was like Michael Jordan. I could have anything I wanted. All I had to do was snap my fingers. I had my own condo, my own car and my own bodyguard with an Uzi. Had to fight off the women."

 

It didn't last. Bates later played in Switzerland, back in the U.S with the World Basketball League, the Philippines again, a few seasons in Mexico--even a season in Uruguay. But he never seemed to prosper for long.

 

Bates hit bottom on Jan. 17, 1998, when he robbed a New Jersey Texaco station at knifepoint, slashing the ear of attendant Philip Kittel in the process.

 

The crime netted Bates a grand total of five bucks--and seven years in prison.

 

Today, Bates is an inmate at Hope Hall, a 164-bed halfway house for adult male offenders in Camden, N.J. During his stay, he has taken part in classes designed to mend damaged cognitive skills, ready himself for the workplace and learn how to manage his emotions.

 

"This is one of the best facilities for...what's the word? Recovery!" says Bates, now 48.

 

In the past, Bates has been vague about the root of his difficulties. In a 1992 interview with The Oregonian, for example, he denied having drug problems. But he now blames the gas-station robbery on cocaine and alcohol.

 

"I went to play the lottery," he says. "And that's when the devil got inside me."

 

According to Bates, he'd been hanging out with some younger friends that day, "trying to help them with their lives." Instead, he wound up drinking vodka, snorting cocaine, and holding up a Texaco.

 

"That's not my character," he explains. "I was doing cocaine and drinking."

 

At Hope Hall, Bates juggles church attendance, AA meetings and shifts at Aluminum Shapes, an aluminum extruder, where he readies products for shipping.

 

In the evenings, he studies reading and writing at Camden Community College. In fact, he says, he's written a book, Born to Play Basketball, which he hopes to publish when he's released.

 

But his burning ambition is to get back on the boards as a Portland Trail Blazer.

 

"I'm trying to reapply myself in the NBA," he explains. "I been watching for the last 15 years, and I haven't seen anyone who can put the ball in the hoop like me."

 

At the time of his arrest, Bates weighed only 26 pounds more than in his rookie year. "I'm in great shape," he insists. "Prison basketball is a lot more physical than the NBA. There's no whistle out there."

 

Though his checkered past seems in keeping with the Blazers' tarnished image, it remains unclear whether he will get a chance to don the red-and-black. Authorities peg his current release for March 23, 2005, just three days after the regular season ends.

 

Nevertheless, Bates is looking to the future. "I'm rehabilitated," he says. "I'm stronger than I've ever been. To all the Blazer Mania fans, I'll see you in 2005."

 

Grabe din nangyari kay Bates, had he stayed around in here just like what Norman Black did. Norman Black was able to play in the PBA until the late 90's siguro but i guess that Norman and Billy are two different personalities off the court....

[big game vin]

:evil: newbie

 

top 10 in randomize order..

- marquin chandler

- silas mills

- kenny travis

- john best

- kenny redfield

- tonny harris

- hamilton (caught using prohibited drugs.. i 4got his 1st name)

- thompkins (caught using prohibited drugs.. i 4got his 1st name)

- lamond strothers

- henrry james

 

special mention: rob parker n sonny alvarado.. :evil:

[charlie12324]

well, i really liked the andy fields - donnie ray koonce tandem. they dominated the field back when the open conference was played with two imports at a time.

[gambit_^^]

billy ray bates

norman black

tony harris

lamont/d strothers

bobby parks

 

 

di ako maka-complete ng ten eh...

[TheDRAGON]

In random order:

 

Bobby Parks

 

Tony Harris

 

Michael Hackett

 

David Thirdkill

 

Winston Crite

 

Carlos Briggs

 

Ronnie Thompkins

 

Sean Chambers

 

Norman Black

 

Billy Ray Bates

 

Honorable Mention : Tony Lang (he played most recently among the imports on the list, when the league's level of play was already raised significantly)