From the editors:

Billy Ray Bates
Friday, May 27

In the 1980s, Billy Ray Bates, dubbed “the Legend” by Brent Musberger, washed out of the NBA and onto the shores of the Philippines, where for a few wild years his legend grew, both on the court and in the bars. An excerpt from Pacific Rims: Beermen Ballin’ in Flip-Flops and the Philippines’ Unlikely Love Affair with Basketball.