Bobby Ray Parks Jr.

Bobby Ray Barbosa Parks Jr. (born February 19, 1993) is a Filipino-American professional basketball player who last played for Nagoya Diamond Dolphins of the Japanese B.League.

A 6'4" guard, he played college basketball for the NU Bulldogs for three years before declaring for the NBA draft in 2015 where he went undrafted.

[2][3] Parks transferred to Melrose High School for the 2009–10 season and helped his team win a class AAA state championship.

[4] Sources: In September 2010, Parks enrolled in information technology at National University in Manila with the hopes of playing for the NU Bulldogs in 2011.

[7] In June 2015, prior to the 2015 NBA draft, Parks was invited to work out for the Utah Jazz, Brooklyn Nets, Dallas Mavericks, Atlanta Hawks and Boston Celtics.

[2] On October 31, 2015, Parks was selected by the Texas Legends in the second round of the 2015 NBA Development League Draft.

[18] After the Legends did not retain Parks for the 2016–17 season, he entered the 2016 NBA Development League Draft, where he was selected in the sixth round by the Westchester Knicks.

[27] Parks was traded to the TNT Tropang Giga from Blackwater Elite in November 2019 in the middle of the 2019 PBA Governors' Cup.

[28] In the Philippine Cup, which was the lone conference for the 2020 season, Parks helped TNT to its first "All-Filipino" finals in seven years, only losing to eventual champions Barangay Ginebra San Miguel.

In March 2021, Parks announced that he would not feature in the PBA for the 2021 season citing personal reasons to tend to his family.

[44] [45] [46] [47] As of the end of 2020 season [48] In July 2024, Bobby Ray Parks Jr. is currently engaged to internet personality and content creator Zeinab Harake after the latter agreed to his marriage proposal.

[49] Harake and Parks announced their engagement in a joint Instagram post on Sunday, July 7, which showed them standing at an undisclosed location where the phrase “Marry me” was spelled out, while what seemed like a nightscape of Metro Manila.