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Rafe Bartholomew

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273 total appearances

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Pablo Torre Finds Out
Freedom of the Four: We Tracked a Radical Experiment in Basketball Nirvana

Incredible. The players would just hold tight, lock them up and say, no, this is how I stand.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Freedom of the Four: We Tracked a Radical Experiment in Basketball Nirvana

And so the league's response to this was to move to a system in which they measure player imports' heights laying down. So you have to go to the league office and lay down there for them. And so I'm curious, what do the imports then think of the four-point line? Most of them didn't know that the league was going to have a four-point line when they first got hired.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Freedom of the Four: We Tracked a Radical Experiment in Basketball Nirvana

And so the league's response to this was to move to a system in which they measure player imports' heights laying down. So you have to go to the league office and lay down there for them. And so I'm curious, what do the imports then think of the four-point line? Most of them didn't know that the league was going to have a four-point line when they first got hired.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Freedom of the Four: We Tracked a Radical Experiment in Basketball Nirvana

And so the league's response to this was to move to a system in which they measure player imports' heights laying down. So you have to go to the league office and lay down there for them. And so I'm curious, what do the imports then think of the four-point line? Most of them didn't know that the league was going to have a four-point line when they first got hired.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Freedom of the Four: We Tracked a Radical Experiment in Basketball Nirvana

But the traditional role of imports on PBA teams is to be the leading scorer. Get your points, get 30, get 40. So the imports who are expected to do the most scoring are also the players who have the brightest green light to put up that shot. And they're also some of the ones who've been the most aggressive in taking it so far.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Freedom of the Four: We Tracked a Radical Experiment in Basketball Nirvana

But the traditional role of imports on PBA teams is to be the leading scorer. Get your points, get 30, get 40. So the imports who are expected to do the most scoring are also the players who have the brightest green light to put up that shot. And they're also some of the ones who've been the most aggressive in taking it so far.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Freedom of the Four: We Tracked a Radical Experiment in Basketball Nirvana

But the traditional role of imports on PBA teams is to be the leading scorer. Get your points, get 30, get 40. So the imports who are expected to do the most scoring are also the players who have the brightest green light to put up that shot. And they're also some of the ones who've been the most aggressive in taking it so far.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Freedom of the Four: We Tracked a Radical Experiment in Basketball Nirvana

Played college ball at Colorado. He played there with Derek White. Made it to the league on a couple of 10-day contracts. And again, later in his career with the Dallas Mavericks, been in the G League, played in Germany, Poland, Israel.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Freedom of the Four: We Tracked a Radical Experiment in Basketball Nirvana

Played college ball at Colorado. He played there with Derek White. Made it to the league on a couple of 10-day contracts. And again, later in his career with the Dallas Mavericks, been in the G League, played in Germany, Poland, Israel.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Freedom of the Four: We Tracked a Radical Experiment in Basketball Nirvana

Played college ball at Colorado. He played there with Derek White. Made it to the league on a couple of 10-day contracts. And again, later in his career with the Dallas Mavericks, been in the G League, played in Germany, Poland, Israel.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Freedom of the Four: We Tracked a Radical Experiment in Basketball Nirvana

So in George's case, he was coming off an injury and had been rehabbing and... I didn't have, you know, any real offers in Europe or anywhere like that.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Freedom of the Four: We Tracked a Radical Experiment in Basketball Nirvana

So in George's case, he was coming off an injury and had been rehabbing and... I didn't have, you know, any real offers in Europe or anywhere like that.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Freedom of the Four: We Tracked a Radical Experiment in Basketball Nirvana

So in George's case, he was coming off an injury and had been rehabbing and... I didn't have, you know, any real offers in Europe or anywhere like that.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Freedom of the Four: We Tracked a Radical Experiment in Basketball Nirvana

Because the team that hired him started the season with another player who was not scoring as much as they needed him to. And... Then they reached out, you know, they looked around. They actually wanted another player who shares the same agent as George. And that player wound up going to play in another country. And so the agents reached out to the team and said, well, we do have George King.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Freedom of the Four: We Tracked a Radical Experiment in Basketball Nirvana

Because the team that hired him started the season with another player who was not scoring as much as they needed him to. And... Then they reached out, you know, they looked around. They actually wanted another player who shares the same agent as George. And that player wound up going to play in another country. And so the agents reached out to the team and said, well, we do have George King.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Freedom of the Four: We Tracked a Radical Experiment in Basketball Nirvana

Because the team that hired him started the season with another player who was not scoring as much as they needed him to. And... Then they reached out, you know, they looked around. They actually wanted another player who shares the same agent as George. And that player wound up going to play in another country. And so the agents reached out to the team and said, well, we do have George King.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Freedom of the Four: We Tracked a Radical Experiment in Basketball Nirvana

He's 6'6". He fits the mold. He can shoot.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Freedom of the Four: We Tracked a Radical Experiment in Basketball Nirvana

He's 6'6". He fits the mold. He can shoot.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Freedom of the Four: We Tracked a Radical Experiment in Basketball Nirvana

He's 6'6". He fits the mold. He can shoot.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
Freedom of the Four: We Tracked a Radical Experiment in Basketball Nirvana

And after he goes through that, he's able to go to his first practice and suit up for this team called the Blackwater Bossing.