The big guy gets around.
Days after the climbing the Manitou Incline in Colorado Springs with his teammates, Brook Lopez was in Manila Monday to serve as the NBA ambassador in announcing a new partnership between the league and AXA Philippines, the insurance giant.
The Philippines are a basketball hotbed, something Lopez has known since high school when his point guard was a Filipino American.
“Just traveling around the country and seeing players in sandals or barefoot, it shows me the true passion and love for the game these people have,” he said on Monday, his second visit to the Philippines.