FILE–Filipino import Ray Parks in motion for Osaka Evessa within the Japan B.League. –BLEAGUE PHOTO
MANILA, Philippines—After a commendable run with Osaka Evessa within the previous Japan B.League season, Bobby Ray Parks Jr. is taking his act to Ibaraki.
On Saturday night, the B.League announced that Parks has signed with the Robots for the 2026-27 season.
Parks’ signing with Ibaraki also closed the door on his rumored return to TNT within the PBA.
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The Robots will likely be Parks’ third team within the B.League since joining the league in 2021 because the Asian import of the Nagoya Diamond Dolphins.
After three seasons with Nagoya, the 33-year-old Parks played a few years with the Osaka Evessa.
“For me, it was time to maneuver on to the subsequent chapter, whatever that could be,” the previous Gilas Pilipinas gunner told reporters through the B.League Final Week in Manila last May.
“I felt prefer it was my time to depart from Osaka. We achieved what we achieved and I feel like I just wish to compete more in that aspect and I felt like there’s so way more that I can still do.”
Parks is the most recent Filipino import to search out a brand new home after former Yokohama guard Kiefer Ravena inked a take care of B.League powerhouse Ryukyu recently.