Billy Ray Bates dropped 51 points in his Crispa-Toyota debut, leading the Redmanizers past the Silver Coronas in the first round of the 1983 PBA Reinforced Conference.
Crispa rips Toyota
Tempo
Published Monday May 30, 1983
Billy Ray Bates hit the deck as often as he scored as Crispa hammered out a 122-110 victory over arch rival Toyota in the PBA Reinforced Conference at the Araneta Coliseum.
Some 20,000 fans watched the Silver Coronas employ every means in the book — including illegal ones — to stop the 6-3 power-playing import of the Redmanizers but the strategy backfired.
