Rafe Bartholomew
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91 appearances
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1 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard Feb 2025
Rafe Bartholomew’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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If he's doing that at 40%, then yeah, keep shooting them. Why are you only shooting six, George? And as the games went on, he had a few nights where he attempted 12 and 13 fours. Like he's always in the 30s, which means, again, double it for twos.
He became proof of concept for what the PVA is hoping the four-point line could do for the league because all of a sudden people are like, hey, have you seen this guy making four-pointers, taking them left and right, has this celebration, he's leading them to wins. And it ended up being a sign of what the four-pointer could do if people embrace it and shoot it well.
Right. So he led Blackwater to this place where they almost made the playoffs and they wound up losing the second to last game of the season, which eliminated them officially from the postseason. So on one hand, he is he's a professional like these, especially overseas pros. They make business decisions.
And before his final game in that season, he had this moment where he's thinking, should I bother playing this game? We're not going to make the playoffs either way. It doesn't matter if we win or lose. Should I just save my body? And maybe because of the four-point shot, maybe because of the connection, he felt like he was developing with Philippine basketball and the PBA.
For whatever reason, he's looking in the mirror.
And at the end of the season in which George King managed to brand himself as the PVA's first four-point king, complete with a crown celebration, he made his last shot in a 64-point performance on a falling-away four-pointer going towards the baseline.
They gave him a pen and a piece of paper and said, write down 64 on it, and then had him pose like Wilt Chamberlain after he scored 100 points in the NBA.
He will need to be naturalized as a Philippine citizen for that to happen.
Well, that's their loss.
I first moved to Manila when I was 23 years old in 2005. I have no idea who I would be today if that never happened. If I never spent those first few years living there, studying the history of basketball, playing with everyone who would pass me a ball. I am who I am because of that experience.
Salamat din sayo.
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