in yo face entry. nets champs by 2001, count on it?

here is a story i wrote for SLAM magazine

http://www.slamonline.com/online/nba/2010/05/hong-kongs-love-of-the-game/

a few things

1: i'm happy to have a platform to get out to the world that HK ISN'T CHINA. I'm so sick and tired of this western misconception that everyone Chinese worships Yao Ming. Please. Basketball's popularity in HK can be linked to Jordan's emergence and Japanese manga SLAM DUNK. HKers hardly care about mainland athletes. My line about seeing 500 Kobe jerseys before a Yao Ming jersey in HK is an understatement. I've never seen a Yao Ming jersey in HK, period.

2: the comments are getting interesting, a couple of filipino americans repping their home country, and they're, i gotta admit, not wrong. those guys can ball.