Summary: Jonah Keri interviews Rafe Bartholomew, author of Pacific Rims: Beermen Ballin' in Flip-Flops and the Philippines' Unlikely Love Affair with Basketball, and editor at Bill Simmons's new website Grantland. Topics include: Pacific Rims; Rafe's first game of pickup basketball in the Philippines; adjusting to life in Manila; basketball's unexplainable popularity in the Philippines; how basketball courts get built in the Philippines; politics and poverty; the access granted by the Philippine Basketball Association; imported U.S. stars; and LeBron's performance in the NBA Finals. Plus, the Food Pick of the Week.
