Kobe Paras

Kobe Paras

Personal information
Born	(1997-09-19) September 19, 1997 Quezon City, Philippines
Nationality	Filipino
Listed height	198 cm (6 ft 6 in)
Listed weight	86 kg (190 lb)
Career information
High school	La Salle Greenhills Cathedral (Los Angeles, California) Middlebrooks Academy (Los Angeles, California)
Position	Shooting guard / Small forward
Medals Representing Philippines Men’s Basketball SEABA U16 Championship 2013 Yogyakarta Team competition Men’s 3x3 Basketball FIBA 3x3 U18 World Championship 2013 Jakarta Slam dunk 2015 Debrecen Slam dunk FIBA Asia U18 3x3 Championship 2013 Bangkok Team competition

Kobe Lorenzo Paras (born September 19, 1997) is a Filipino basketball player and has played for the Philippine 3x3 basketball team. He will play college basketball in the United States for the UCLA Bruins starting in 2016. He is the son of Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) legend Benjie Paras.

Career

Youth

High school

Paras entered Cathedral High School in Los Angeles in the middle of the 2013-14 school year where he played for the school's basketball team, the Phantoms. Prior to entering Cathedral, Paras attended La Salle Greenhills in the Philippines where he also played for the institution's basketball team. However, Paras decided against playing for the Phantoms for the 2015-16 school year. He would have only been eligible to play for the Phantoms until the first semester due to an eight semester limit. The eligibility limitation was due to the difference between academic years in the Philippines and the United States. He instead decided to play for Middlebrooks Academy prep team for his final year in high school while continuing to attend Cathedral. Middlebrooks is not regulated by California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) regulation, which allowed Paras to avoid the conflict between school years.

College career

Paras plans to attend college at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and play for their Bruins basketball team. In October 2015, he signed a National Letter of Intent to join the team under coach Steve Alford. UCLA formally signed Paras to their basketball team on November 12, 2015.

Name	Home town	High school / college	Height	Weight	Commit date
Kobe Paras SG	Quezon City, Philippines	Cathedral High School	6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)	190 lb (86 kg)	Oct 11, 2014
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National team

Paras was part of the Philippine national team that participated at the 2013 SEABA Under-16 Championship.

In 3x3 basketball, Paras represented the Philippines at the 2013 and 2015 FIBA 3x3 Under-18 World Championship. While the national team failed to win the main 3x3 tournament at both editions, He won the slam dunk championships also on both occasions.

He was also part of the Philippine national team that participated at the 2014 FIBA Asia Under-18 Championship that finished fifth, wherein he scored 27 points en route to a 113-105 overtime victory against Japan.

He was included in the initial line up to the Philippine national team which was set to participated at the 2015 Southeast Asian Games although he was not included in the final lineup. Paras has expressed openness to play for the national team provided that his commitments in the United States is not in conflict.

Personal life

Paras is the son of Filipino basketball star Benjie, a two-time PBA MVP and the only player in PBA history to be named Rookie of the Year and MVP in the same season, and actress Jackie Forster. Paras' brother, Andre, played college basketball in the Philippines and is now an actor. He also has two half brothers from his father's second marriage and another brother and a sister from his mother's second relationship.

External links

• 3x3 Planet Profile
• 2014 FIBA Asia U18 Championship for Men/ Profile