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Why Aren't More Chinese Players Getting Drafted? with Alex Wong | THE STORIES

Spinsters

Blue Wire

Society & Culture, News, Basketball, Sports, Entertainment News

4.6938 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2021

⏱️ ? minutes

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Contributor Alex Wong joins the Spinsters to tell the story of the Hong Wah Kues, a barnstorming Chinese basketball team in the 1930s, and explores why there aren't more Chinese basketball players in the American professional leagues today. Footage Courtesy of Global ImageWorks, LLC. Spinsters fans! We want to learn more about you! If you have time, it would mean a lot if you could fill this quick survey out. Everyone who fills it out will be entered for a chance to win some Spinsters gear!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Space Jam would have had a way better plot if LeBron had to go into the Twitterverse

0:04.5

to save his son from becoming a reply guy.

0:11.3

Welcome to Spinsters, a podcast where we wonder just how global the NBA actually is.

0:19.0

I'm Haley O'Shaughnessy.

0:20.6

And I'm Jordan Liggins.

0:22.3

Jordan, the draft is less than a week away.

0:25.9

It's crazy.

0:26.8

Are you ready for Cade?

0:28.0

I'm ready.

0:29.3

And I think this year we have some people that came from the G League, college.

0:35.1

It's like a whole mix.

0:43.4

But the talent is there, so I I'm excited I love the draft because I love to happy cry yes and to reflect like reflection cry and then also when families are happy and

0:52.0

I'm hoping to make it at least like five minutes in this year.

0:56.6

Last year, that was my goal.

0:57.9

I did not reach it.

0:59.1

I also love the fashion.

1:00.6

You got to respect.

1:01.5

You got to see what suit people are going to come with, you know, the lining inside the suit jackets.

1:08.9

What are the shoes going to be?

1:12.2

It's always so fun.

1:16.5

Subtle nods to like where they went to college. Yeah. Yeah. I love it. Yeah.

1:36.8

So today we have a story from my friend Alex Wong, who is essentially going to tell us about a big gap that he's noticed in the draft, you know, but not only the draft just in the league at large.

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