Ricardo Ratliffe played in the PBA for the first time since 2017.
Magnolia paraded returning import Ricardo Ratliffe and it went on to beat Blackwater, 118-100, in the PBA Season 49 Commissioner’s Cup at the Ninoy Aquino Stadium in Malate on Thursday, Nov. 28.
The Hotshots thus gave Ratliffe, who last played in the league in 2017, a warm welcome in a conference that features reinforcements with unlimited height.
Ratliffe is fresh off winning a fifth Korean Basketball League title with Busan KCC Egis.
Magnolia will aim to make it two in a row when it takes on Converge on Sunday, Dec. 1, at the Ynares Center in Antipolo.
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