MVP Parks Has Something To Prove.

Bobby Ray Parks is the first UAAP MVP to come from NU. He's also the first to come from a non-Final Four team.

And that seems to be enough for people to question whether he deserves to be the UAAP MVP.

The young Parks hears all the questions and criticisms but says he prefers to let his actions speak for him. Parks aims to improve his game over the year-long break and prove to one and all that his MVP title is well-deserved.



Parks averaged 20 points and 6.5 rebounds but NU finished the season at 5th place with a 6-8 win-loss record, just outside their target of making the Final Four.

Many UAAP observers are saying that Parks inability to lead NU to the Final Four should have eliminated him from the MVP race, citing the performances of Ateneo's Greg Slaughter, FEU's Aldrech Ramos and RR Garcia and Adamson's Alex Nuyless as more worthy MVP candidates.

My opinion: It's called the Most Valuable Player Award, not Most Valuable Team. Parks played tremendously well and brought NU to the brink of the Final Four, something NU has never reached before. But what is more important is that NU is no longer an automatic out, a game most teams would think of as an automatic win. Parks changed the league's perception of NU from whipping boy to dangerous opponent. That's what an MVP does.

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