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When Ray Parks Jr. checked in for the Dallas Mavericks, with 7:27 remaining in the second quarter of the team’s first NBA summer league game this July, it had been almost five months since he had played organized basketball. His last game was at the Ynares Sports Arena in Pasig City, Metro Manila, where Ray started at off-guard in the Philippine Basketball Association D-League finals.

In that game, Ray had been matched up with a player named Don Trollano; when Ray subbed in for the first time at summer league, he was guarding Seth Curry, the NBA D-League’s second-leading scorer and Steph Curry’s younger brother.

From the PBA D-League to NBA summer league, from Trollano to Curry, the difference in level of play is not a leap.

It’s a chasm. Before traveling to Las Vegas for the 10-day tournament, Ray acknowledged how far-fetched it felt to be on the doorstep of the NBA. “I went from playing La Salle or Ateneo to playing the Pelicans,” he said. “That doesn’t even s Popular Manila: January 2012 FENUG