American expatriate basketball people in the Philippines: Billy Ray Bates, Norman Black, Dennis Hopson, Earl Barron, Vincent Askew, Ansu Sesay, Chris ... Reid, Mario Bennett, Scott Burrell, Bo

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: Billy Ray Bates, Norman Black, Dennis Hopson, Earl Barron, Vincent Askew, Ansu Sesay, Chris Porter, Keena Young, Andre Brown, Darvin Ham, Keith Smart, Arizona Reid, Mario Bennett, Scott Burrell, Bobby Parks, Hassan Adams, Gabe Muoneke, Mitchell Wiggins, Cedric Ceballos, Ed Elisma, David Thirdkill, Adrian Branch, Lenny Cooke, Tim Cone, Ronnie Fields, Sean Lampley, Raymond Townsend, Art Long, Alex Compton, Antonio Lang, Awvee Storey, Richie Frahm, Amal McCaskill, Lewis Jackson, Byron Houston, Bubba Wells, Rodney Monroe, Jamal Sampson, Kenny Payne, Ennis Whatley, Henry James, Keith Jennings, Chris Morris, Alan Ogg, Larry Robinson, Rudy Hatfield, Torraye Braggs, Shea Seals, Askia Jones, Derek Grimm, Kurk Lee, Ernest Brown, Desmond Ferguson, Steffond Johnson, Darryl Johnson. Excerpt: Billy Ray Bates (born May 31, 1956, in Kosciusko, Mississippi) is a retired American professional basketball player. Bates played shooting guard at McAdams High in Mississippi and attended Kentucky State University. Bates played four seasons in the National Basketball Association for the Portland Trail Blazers, Washington Bullets and Los Angeles Lakers. He also played overseas, in Switzerland, Mexico, Uruguay, and most notably in the Philippines for the Crispa Redmanizers and Ginebra San Miguel of the Philippine Basketball Association. On January 17, 1998, Bates robbed a New Jersey Texaco station at knife point, slashing the ear of attendant Philip Kittel. He was sentenced to seven years in prison. He has since been released and is living in the Camden and Trenton areas of New Jersey. A product of the Mississippi cotton fields, Billy Ray Bates, the eighth of nine children, got his start shooting hoops at Kentucky State University after playing high school ball at McAdams High in Mississippi. The Houston Rockets picked him in the 3rd round of...