BlackSheepComeHome14 | Timberwolves

778 | 20 hours ago

Yeah he’s done now

KL2ConspireLLC | San Diego Clippers

561 | 20 hours ago

He was playing in the Philippines. Safe to assume that he was already done.

BlackSheepComeHome14 | Timberwolves

125 | 20 hours ago

Summer League teams could have been calling, now probably not

HikmetLeGuin

86 | 20 hours ago

Playing pro basketball would be a dream come true for most athletes, even if it’s not the NBA.

Constant_Hearing1048

-114 | 20 hours ago

I don’t know about that, I rather live in America near friends and family than overseas in a foreign country.

HikmetLeGuin

72 | 20 hours ago

Okay, you’d turn down $120,000 per month to play basketball for a living, but most athletes wouldn’t.

https://basketnews.com/news-242319-reported-salary-of-bol-bol-in-the-philippines-revealed.html

Constant_Hearing1048

-88 | 19 hours ago

He’s already rich and his daddy is rich too. I feel like the fact that athletes only specialize in one thing for the entirety of our life makes them want to stick with it because of inertia more than anything else.

Angel_559_202020

61 | 19 hours ago

Manute Bol wasn’t rich, he gave away most of his money to charities and humanitarian efforts and also died when Bol was young

hugekitten | Knicks

27 | 19 hours ago

Very true. He also made way less money compared to modern players

Angel_559_202020

1 | 19 hours ago

He only made $5.87 in a total of 10 seasons

In 1993, He was only the 5th highest paid Sixer at $1.65M

NBA Salary Cap in 1993 was $14M ($28.3M in 2022), For 2026 It’s $154,647,000

If the 1993 Sixers had a payroll of $14M, Bol Bol would only be 11.79% of the cap

11.79% of $154.65 would be $18.2M

HikmetLeGuin

11 | 19 hours ago

Manute Bol made $5,150,000 in NBA salary (probably some other endorsements, too) and was known for donating a large portion of that to charity.

Bol Bol made around $10.5 million in NBA salary.

That’s really good money, but it’s not like they are LeBron or MJ.

Bol Bol could quit if he wants, but he presumably likes what he does, and the large amount of cash doesn’t hurt. Many pro athletes love the game and are highly competitive people who want to play sports for a living.

Also, Bol Bol wasn’t born in the US. Maybe he’s happy to travel to different countries. He’s 26; he has plenty of time to settle down later.

So, I don’t see how what you said refutes my point. Making $120k per month to play basketball for a living is a dream come true for most athletes.

https://www.hoopshype.com/story/sports/nba/rankings/2021/10/18/highest-paid-nba-players-from-each-country/75615487007/

https://basketnews.com/news-242319-reported-salary-of-bol-bol-in-the-philippines-revealed.html

scrame

6 | 13 hours ago

his dad is long dead, you idiot. stop commenting.

HikmetLeGuin

8 | 13 hours ago

His dad is dead, and Bol Bol was a refugee as a young child. He certainly had many advantages in life, but people on here acting like he was born into total privilege are being ignorant:

“In 1998, after an American missile strike during the Second Sudanese Civil War, Manute was accused of being an American spy and was barred by the Sudanese government from fleeing to the United States. In 2001, the family traveled to Cairo, Egypt, where they were stranded for many months due to visa problems, despite having acquired tickets to the United States from American friends.

In the following year, when Bol was two years old, his family moved to Connecticut as designated political refugees.”

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bol_Bol

KL2ConspireLLC | San Diego Clippers

17 | 19 hours ago

Bol Bol wasn’t most basketball players.

He was the #4 recruit in college basketball in 2018. He was supposed to be a lottery pick in 2019. But his pre-draft process went so bad that he slid into the second round. Multiple NBA teams still gave him a chance but he just never figured it out.

Constant_Hearing1048

8 | 19 hours ago

Bol Bol always sucked, he’s just tall and has a father that was in the nba. He deserved to go undrafted but like Pat Spencer said “teams prioritize height over BB IQ.”

KL2ConspireLLC | San Diego Clippers

2 | 19 hours ago

Oh shoot, I thought I was replying to the same comment that you replied to. That’s my bad.

HikmetLeGuin

5 | 19 hours ago

All that may be true, but he’s still living the dream by most athletes’ standards.

The Filipino league is not the NBA, but if you ask 99.9% of athletes if they’d want to play basketball there for $120k per month, they’d say yes.

KL2ConspireLLC | San Diego Clippers

-1 | 19 hours ago

He was supposed to be one of the 0.1%

HikmetLeGuin

7 | 19 hours ago

Ok, sure, but so what? He’s living a great life. Playing in the Filipino league may mean you’re probably finished in the NBA, but it doesn’t mean you’re finished by any other standard. It’s still a dream for most people. He’s making a ton of money and playing sports for a living.

Clearly some of those draft projections were wrong. Also, he still played more in the NBA than a lot of second round picks.

KL2ConspireLLC | San Diego Clippers

-5 | 19 hours ago

You’re missing the point that he wasn’t most people. He had opportunities that most people can only dream of having, and he didn’t make the most of them.

HikmetLeGuin

7 | 13 hours ago

I fail to see your point. He was drafted in the second round and played more than a lot of second-rounders.

It’s very rare that a second-round pick is an NBA star.

The fact that some people thought he should be drafted higher just means those people were wrong. It’s difficult to project how a teenager will play in the NBA.

I don’t think he should care that he failed to live up to the expectations you and some ESPN talking heads had for him when he was a teen.

Bol Bol still played over 200 games in the NBA and is making bank playing internationally. Living the dream.

Edit: He also went from being a refugee as a child to becoming a multi-millionaire athlete. But shit, he failed to live up to KL2ConspireLLC’s hopes for his basketball career, so I guess he should be sad.

DrMalleo

1 | 12 hours ago

Genuinely do not see the issue with travelling the world for work, especially not as a young adult. Is this an American thing?

Rough-Plum-7267

1 | 3 hours ago

I’d wager you don’t have many friends and that your family doesn’t much like you. But maybe that’s mean.

And I’d say that these reasons are probably why you should actually go travel. Gain some perspective. You carry a scent over online message boards, can’t be any better in person.

Blessings!

Constant_Hearing1048

0 | 3 hours ago

CAUGHT

PanthalassaRo | Knicks

7 | 19 hours ago

Hey watch your mouth, Kai Sotto dominated that league.

octopus_limbs

17 | 18 hours ago

Kidding aside, Kai Sotto never even got to play there

AyMoeKill | Wizards

4 | 17 hours ago

What ever happened to bro? Is he still playing?

UTDRashyyy

2 | 17 hours ago

Playing overseas

AyMoeKill | Wizards

1 | 16 hours ago

Where?

AbjectAffect91 | Knicks

2 | 15 hours ago

Japan I think

slickdevil04 | Philippines

1 | 15 hours ago

He last played in Japan B.League.

AdolescentThug | LAL

12 | 11 hours ago

Pinoy but born and raised in the US here. God damn I hate my cousins and uncles because of Kai.

“Only reason he’s not in the NBA is because of politics”
“He’s got all the skills and he’s 7’3” why are teams missing out?”
“He’s better than Wemby”

I’ve seen the kid play. I know for a fact that if I was 7’3” I’d be a better player than him right now at 33 years old lol. And the highest level of basketball I’ve ever played was high school varsity. He’s ass.

Low-Conflict9366

-1 | 16 hours ago

I could see teams using him as a throwaway 7ft’er for Wemby, like the Shaq days.

tlj2494 | Celtics

-4 | 20 hours ago

Some of the dudes helping him off look like there playing mens league basketball at the local y

spleev | San Francisco Warriors

269 | 20 hours ago

was it on that negative step? Fuck man this keeps happening

ny2k1

111 | 20 hours ago

Hali tore his on that negative/silent step as well. That almost seems to often be the precursor just before the Achilles fully tears.

MumrikDK

18 | 17 hours ago

Has any of them not had that step?

Snoo13545 | Cavaliers

8 | 6 hours ago

They’ve actually all had the false step and on every tear, there’s a specific pronation angle that the player pushes past. It’s essentially the identical motion every time

catscanmeow | Raptors

50 | 20 hours ago

i think a pattern to look into is, its the step off on a leg with an already injured calve, and they inject the calve with cortisone to treat the inflammation, but a side effect of cortisone injections is weakened tendons.

Other people have brought up the theory about certain PEDs and how they can dehydrate tendons making them more tearable, and also overpower the muscles which causes tears, and PEDs also allow overtraining.

throw_away6453 | Trail Blazers

43 | 20 hours ago

This looks a bit different than a typical negative step like Hali/Dame/DiVincenzo all had where they tried to change direction suddenly.

Bol is actively moving forward both feet come off the floor when he crow hops, he comes down on one foot, pushes off it and it just snaps.

SkatteGOAT

1 | 3 hours ago

lmao. Please, hyperlink me to this “negative step” you speak of to the exact frame/time stamp.

KL2ConspireLLC | San Diego Clippers

91 | 20 hours ago

He’s trapped in the Philippines?

RollGata

149 | 20 hours ago

I just looked up his salary and he apparently was making $120k a month. Who is bankrolling that

SloshaPacana

83 | 19 hours ago

Quick google search his team is owned by a huge communications company there, so probably them

Bluest_waters

14 | 17 hours ago

The owner of the team paying the salaries it’s pretty crazy

Hnl2Nrt2025

57 | 20 hours ago

I believe he’s playing there by choice. And it’s not a terrible place to be.

OklahomaRuns

290 | 20 hours ago

Exactly. FFS people act like he’s playing in Memphis

PineapplesInMyHead2

15 | 19 hours ago

Let’s hope they don’t make them stay at the Hyatt Centric in Manila

slamminalex1 | Nuggets

21 | 19 hours ago

Besides the money, he’s playing there because Luol Deng is his coach.

Away_Article4005

15 | 15 hours ago

In another comment it was mentioned he was making $120k.. a month. It’d be damn near impossible to spend that in a month here.

I make half that a year, coupled with my wife’s salary and we live extremely comfortably in the Ph. Anything I’ve wanted I can get, go out regularly with the kids etc.

KL2ConspireLLC | San Diego Clippers

5 | 20 hours ago

It was a joke about Op’s title.

AbjectAffect91 | Knicks

3 | 15 hours ago

Specially with $120,000 monthly salary

Far-Donut-1177 | Celtics

5 | 20 hours ago

Bol Bol getting the full Filipino experience

Romanopapa | Warriors

-1 | 16 hours ago

So, chicken adobo for breakfast?

survivaltactics2

2 | 20 hours ago

Where do u think hes getting the money for those fits

Anonnameaccount | Warriors

85 | 20 hours ago

Sucks man, terrible injury to get

nikerock | Spurs

77 | 19 hours ago

Shout-out to that guy on the other team being the only one to run back and check on bol bol with concern, even if he was mainly coming back for offense.

octopus_limbs

59 | 18 hours ago

I follow the PBA a lot and Bol’s story has been the main thing for this season. He started slow because he needed to adjust to the physical game so he struggled, and also was very vocal about not liking the whole situation - but something clicked and it looked like he realized that he needed to adjust his game. After 2 or three games things started picking up, he started playing more physical, being more vocal, really intense in games. He basically carried his team to the semifinal. The main complaint about him in the NBA was his character and motivation, but I felt like in the short time he was at TNT he was starting to overcome that. This injury was unfortunate because I think he has the skills to come back especially with his last season performance in Phoenix

IcedKofe

1 | 4 hours ago

I think there was no character development. Always avoiding press, not wanting to interact with anyone, and even blocking broadcast cameras during games. Comes off like a jerk.

Rahnamatta | Heat

18 | 20 hours ago

I remember posting about BolBol a couple of months ago and it was hard to find info about him.

I didn’t like the way he approached his career, but poor fella.q

HikmetLeGuin

17 | 20 hours ago

This was removed before, not sure why mods removed it when someone else posted it, but are allowing it now.

https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1tkskq8/

ace0702 | Nuggets

12 | 20 hours ago

From a human standpoint, this sucks and I feel really bad and don’t like to see anyone injured. But from a basketball standpoint and injury aside, he was given multiple very generous opportunities to prove himself in the nba and just never put in the effort, so the “never making it back to the nba” part is really hard for me to feel bad for him

Equivalent_Jello_382

1 | 12 hours ago

never got a lot of playing time

ace0702 | Nuggets

1 | 41 minutes ago

Because he was ass and never hustled in the time he got. Amount of playing time isn’t random

MrBuckBuck | Trail Blazers

11 | 20 hours ago

A Streamable link for the ones with black screen:

https://streamable.com/hotupq

AffectionateDouble43

7 | 20 hours ago

He was not comint back anyways if he was paying in Philipines, not even a top 20 league, not a chance to come back to NBA

starnoneckwind | NBA

3 | 20 hours ago

are they playing 82 game seasons in the Philippines, too?

amorpower10

14 | 20 hours ago

Single round robin(12 games) then playoffs

Constant_Hearing1048

-6 | 20 hours ago

lol. good point. I never bought the “too many games” narrative.

beandipdragon

12 | 19 hours ago

Yeah this one instance totally negates the argument!

WestleyThe | SEA

2 | 18 hours ago

He’s not doing as much work, rehab and recovery overseas as he would in the nba… some peoples bodies just do that especially when you are 7’2 and playing pro basketball as a guard

There is a too many games narritive in the nba because the players now have to start/stop way more often and run from the paint to the 3 pt line multiple times every single play

A tall skinny player playing in the 4-10th best league In the world tearing thier Achilles after washing out of the nba shouldn’t impact how you think of the nba

DemonsReturns7 | 76ers

-8 | 20 hours ago

🤫 Keep that down

It won’t fit the narrative

heat_fan_ | Raptors

4 | 20 hours ago

Man that’s heartbreaking

DarthPineapple5 | Celtics

4 | 20 hours ago

No insult to them but nobody goes to the Philippines with the expectation of getting back into the NBA. More power to him if that’s where he wanted to finish out his professional career though

igotitnowokay | Raptors

4 | 18 hours ago

I tore mine 3 weeks ago and it’s fucking brutal. I can’t imagine having a career that is reliant on this. He’s def going to go into some dark days here.

nood-sal-too

3 | 20 hours ago

Wow I didn’t even know he’s playing here tf.

thelamb710 | LAL

2 | 20 hours ago

He’s had some crazy stat lines over there. Wanna say he had a few 40s and a 50 point game

OklahomaRuns

-19 | 20 hours ago

You would too in the Philippines. Average Filipino height is 5’4”

thelamb710 | LAL

26 | 19 hours ago

I doubt it, my conditioning is terrible. I appreciate your belief in me though

Equivalent_Jello_382

0 | 12 hours ago

hes basically the wemby over there

No_Row_7861

3 | 15 hours ago

I’m gonna miss Shaq saying Bol Bowl

Desperate-Young954

3 | 13 hours ago

That video is blurry. I attached the live video from when they played yesterday around the 23:06 mark (https://youtu.be/KjSZ3zk6UH4). It’s a non-contact injury, and right now the team manager says it’s a partial tear of the Achilles tendon.

Dfrmdabeach700

2 | 20 hours ago

Well that sucks

Hecticbrah | BKN

2 | 20 hours ago

Man thats messed up, wish him a speedy recovery!

Delanorix | Knicks

2 | 20 hours ago

Damn, he seems like the kind of guy you park at the end of the bench until you need him to tangle with Wemby.

splashaddikt

1 | 14 hours ago

Bol Bol not trying play a role though he going one one with Wemby every time he touch the ball lol

Angel_559_202020

-1 | 20 hours ago

Idk if you’re joking or not but If Top tier centers struggle with Wemby

No way a PBA player is going to hang with him 💀

Delanorix | Knicks

2 | 20 hours ago

They did it with Shaq.

Just take athletic tall guys and tell them to make Wembys life hell and if they foul out, so be it.

LazyWeb9421

1 | an hour ago

That’s not how current-day centers work, though. Bol Bol was absolutely awful at defending in the NBA. He had to get sliced up by Wemby. Regular centers used to kill him, and guards could easily attack him, and he would mess up. For Shaq, I’d be partially effective to just put a big body on him. Also, if you foul Wemby that much, he’ll get a bunch of free throws, which he can hit, unlike Shaq.

Angel_559_202020

-3 | 19 hours ago

Smartest Knicks Fan

Delanorix | Knicks

1 | 19 hours ago

Are you not familiar with what teams did with end of bench guys against Shaq?

Angel_559_202020

-2 | 19 hours ago

Did it ever work 💀

Also you’re forgetting that Wemby has a solid supporting cast too

Delanorix | Knicks

3 | 19 hours ago

Yeah, it did work. Its called “Hack-A-Shaq”

The Cavs did it against Mitch game 1 and it forced Mitch back to the bench.

Shaq had a good supporting cast too. Doesn’t matter when you’re averaging less than 1 point a possession cause Shaq cant make free throws.

Angel_559_202020

-2 | 19 hours ago

Wemby shot 82.7 FT% in the regular season and 86.3 FT% in the Playoffs

Also Cavs blew the game

And Robinson and Shaq aren’t comparable to Wemby due to his shooting

Delanorix | Knicks

1 | 19 hours ago

No. But both guys can survive Hack-A-Player.

Im not so sure Wemby would.

judah249 | Suns

2 | 19 hours ago

Bro was averaging 38 ppg damn

Chrisdkn619 | Lakers

2 | 18 hours ago

What?! How many dudes are coming back from Achilles tears this year. If he wants to he can!

Mtown11111

1 | 20 hours ago

Wow I literally just watched a video of him yesterday after being recommended to watch and I was thinking how happy I was for him to be overseas dominating. Think he had 50 in the vid I watched. Sucks, man.

MondialeMan

1 | 20 hours ago

Absolutely brutal for him. Hopefully able to recover and still play some international ball at some level.

reallifenow

1 | 18 hours ago

Damn. I feel for the guy. That’s just awful.

kawangkoankid | NBA

1 | 14 hours ago

literally same spot and move as KD damn

BurtRenoldsMustache

1 | 11 hours ago

Dude has had an attitude problem his whole career so I don’t think he was making it back regardless.

Real_Batu_Rem | Cavaliers

1 | 11 hours ago

Man, that sucks. He’s probably done now. That’s a bummer.

loco_mixer

1 | 9 hours ago

He was not making it back anyway

Due-Juggernaut6595

1 | 8 hours ago

What a waste.

Major_Enthusiasm1099 | Cavaliers

1 | 8 hours ago

He should’ve just followed Wemby everywhere

Hinohellono | Knicks

1 | 6 hours ago

GG

pinoomsmith | Thunder

1 | 4 hours ago

What a shame. He was hooping out here in the Philippines, nearly thought he was about to be the Michael Jordan of the Philippines

PuttyRead

1 | 3 hours ago

Not trying to make light of the situation. But a bunch of 5”8 Filipinos trying to help him off the floor was kinda funny

Afraid-Sympathy6184

-1 | 20 hours ago

Fuck paul pierce - kobe

Constant_Hearing1048

-2 | 20 hours ago

that sucks for him but he had no chance in the nba anyways

Downtown_Soil_3651

1 | 20 hours ago

I don’t think that’s true. I think he kind of fucked off

Hnl2Nrt2025

-2 | 20 hours ago

I always cringe when I see Wemby trying to play point guard.

Bol Bol, who signed overseas this season in the Philippines, suffered a torn Achilles. Bol was hoping to earn another NBA opportunity in 2026-27, after most recently playing for the Suns, but now might never make it back. (Loud Music in the first clip, so watch it)

Bol Bol, who signed overseas this season in the Philippines, suffered a torn Achilles.

Bol was hoping to earn another NBA opportunity in 2026-27, after most recently playing for the Suns, but now might never make it back. (Loud Music in the first clip, so watch it)