Happy Birthday, Roger Ray “RR” Pogoy ( June 16 )

Happy Birthday, Roger Ray “RR” Pogoy

Source : Assorted Magazines (PBA Archives Collections)

2016 PBA Special Gilas Rookie Draft pick
2x PBA champion
2019 PBA Mythical Second Team member
Far Eastern University Tamaraw forward
2015 UAAP champion

Roger Ray Bacusma Pogoy (born June 16, 1992) is a Filipino professional basketball player for the TNT Tropang Giga of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). He won a championship in high school then played for Far Eastern University, where he won a championship in his final year there. Pogoy was then drafted by TNT in the 2016 PBA draft from the national team training pool. He was named Rookie of the Year in 2017. He became a five-time PBA All-Star, a Mythical Team member in 2019, and a two-time PBA champion. He has also represented the Philippines national team in international competitions. He first played for the national team in the SEABA Stankovic Cup in 2016. Since then, he has played in two FIBA World Cups (2019 and 2023) and other tournaments at the Asian and Southeast Asian levels. At the 2021 Southeast Asian Games, he won a silver medal.