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NBA’s Kyle Anderson ‘on track’ to be naturalised for China at FIBA basketball World Cup

Anderson, whose maternal grandmother was born to a Chinese man in Jamaica, fits Yao Ming’s strict criteria for naturalisation
Former national team player Chen Zhenghao believes the Minnesota Timberwolves star will be ‘an instant upgrade’ for China

The process of naturalising Anderson began last year, the source said, with the 29-year-old American fitting the criteria set by CBA president and former NBA legend Yao Ming, who starred at the Houston Rockets. Yao has reportedly made it “non-negotiable” that any players to be naturalised must have blood relations in China, and “cultural identity”, according to Chinese media. Anderson certainly fits the bill. His maternal grandmother was born in Jamaica to a Chinese father and Jamaican mother, making him one-eighth Chinese. His great grandfather moved to the US with his family, and Anderson was born in New York in 1993.

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https://amp.scmp.com/sport/basketball/article/3218281/nbas-kyle-anderson-track-be-naturalised-china-fiba-basketball-world-cup

That's awesome that they found their relatives. Will be cool to see a cerebral slow mo anderson in FIBA play.

Holy ****, he's (part) Cantonese?

For guys that have no shot at playing for team USA, I don't fault them for playing for another country. Chris Kaman, Ben Gordon, and others have done it.

Now this is stretching it. I love how the report says he meets the "strict criteria," and then goes on to state that his Grandmother was born in Jamaica.

Yup, totally fits the criteria. They even refer to him as one of Minnesota's "star," players.

I'm glad for Slo-mo, I've always liked his game, but this seems like a bit too much. You have to draw the line somewhere.

EDIT: I take it back. Read further down the thread.

jefe wrote:For guys that have no shot at playing for team USA, I don't fault them for playing for another country. Chris Kaman, Ben Gordon, and others have done it.

others have done it, meaning most countries have hired gun American these days... Personally, I hate this kind of stuff very much, but at least Slow Mo actually has some lineage to China, so there is that excuse. Guys like McCalebb or TObey however, couldnt even find country they play for on a map.

hippesthippo wrote:Now this is stretching it. I love how the report says he meets the "strict criteria," and then goes on to state that his Grandmother was born in Jamaica.

Yup, totally fits the criteria. They even refer to him as one of Minnesota's "star," players.

I'm glad for Slo-mo, I've always liked his game, but this seems like a bit too much. You have to draw the line somewhere.

The fact he doent count as naturalized is pretty crazy. But it will be fun to see him in FIBA as first option, I always wondered does he really have Bodiroga in him, now we gonna see.

UcanUwill wrote:

hippesthippo wrote:Now this is stretching it. I love how the report says he meets the "strict criteria," and then goes on to state that his Grandmother was born in Jamaica.

Yup, totally fits the criteria. They even refer to him as one of Minnesota's "star," players.

I'm glad for Slo-mo, I've always liked his game, but this seems like a bit too much. You have to draw the line somewhere.

The fact he doent count as naturalized is pretty crazy. But it will be fun to see him in FIBA as first option, I always wondered does he really have Bodiroga in him, now we gonna see.

I don't understand what you're trying to say about not counting as naturalized. It said in the OP that they "started the process of naturalization last year," but I don't even know what the criteria for that is and who decides it.

Is naturalization something which is defined and limited by FIBA, or is it the country that makes that determination?

China vs. France will be quite entertaining to watch. If Rudy likes to go rough, China knows how to deal with that kind of stuff.

He is a good player, is a bit strange but will help them alot.

so basically he has a Chinese great grandfather, cool he tracked his family down not sure how I feel about him hooping for PRC

Is Jeremy Lin still on the team?

JayMKE wrote:so basically he has a Chinese great grandfather, cool he tracked his family down not sure how I feel about him hooping for PRC

A Chinese great grandfather that moved to Jamaica before having children. I'd love to hear this story because it has to be some kind of crazy. Was his great grandfather a merchant sailor of some kind? Or a soldier in their navy?

The original link in his tweet is broken and my google-fu has yet to reveal anything else besides a partial quote about his visit.

hippesthippo wrote:

JayMKE wrote:so basically he has a Chinese great grandfather, cool he tracked his family down not sure how I feel about him hooping for PRC

A Chinese great grandfather that moved to Jamaica before having children. I'd love to hear this story because it has to be some kind of crazy. Was his great grandfather a merchant sailor of some kind? Or a soldier in their navy?

Not so crazy, slave labor imported by the british. There's mad chinese folks in jamaica, i think it's around a 100,000

Meat wrote:

hippesthippo wrote:

JayMKE wrote:so basically he has a Chinese great grandfather, cool he tracked his family down not sure how I feel about him hooping for PRC

A Chinese great grandfather that moved to Jamaica before having children. I'd love to hear this story because it has to be some kind of crazy. Was his great grandfather a merchant sailor of some kind? Or a soldier in their navy?

Not so crazy, slave labor imported by the british. There's mad chinese folks in jamaica, i think it's around a 100,000

Ahhhh ok. I knew the Caribbean was used as a shipping hub for many things, which is why I mentioned his possibly being a merchant of some kind.

I was unaware that the transatlantic slave trade also brought Chinese people over as laborers.

EDIT: Apparently they were brought over as "indentured servants," to replace African slaves after they were emancipated.
Link, for anyone else who is interested.

Another link. This one is a little more interesting and in depth.

I take back my original post. If he wants to play for China I wouldn't question it.

yeah, Chinese Jamaicans are definitely a thing. Interesting story!

hippesthippo wrote:Now this is stretching it. I love how the report says he meets the "strict criteria," and then goes on to state that his Grandmother was born in Jamaica.

Yup, totally fits the criteria. They even refer to him as one of Minnesota's "star," players.

I'm glad for Slo-mo, I've always liked his game, but this seems like a bit too much. You have to draw the line somewhere.

more strict than a lot of other countries, IE one must have a 'blood' relationship, which he does. feels consistent with how china the country relates to 'overseas chinese' anyway.
did you watch any of this world baseball classic though? team italy was just a bunch of guys from jersey named joey. some guy played for team israel because his wife is jewish

spanishninja wrote:yeah, Chinese Jamaicans are definitely a thing. Interesting story!

the combination makes some of the tastiest food ever, chinese west indian food is just top notch

hippesthippo wrote:

UcanUwill wrote:

hippesthippo wrote:Now this is stretching it. I love how the report says he meets the "strict criteria," and then goes on to state that his Grandmother was born in Jamaica.

Yup, totally fits the criteria. They even refer to him as one of Minnesota's "star," players.

I'm glad for Slo-mo, I've always liked his game, but this seems like a bit too much. You have to draw the line somewhere.

The fact he doent count as naturalized is pretty crazy. But it will be fun to see him in FIBA as first option, I always wondered does he really have Bodiroga in him, now we gonna see.

I don't understand what you're trying to say about not counting as naturalized. It said in the OP that they "started the process of naturalization last year," but I don't even know what the criteria for that is and who decides it.

Is naturalization something which is defined and limited by FIBA, or is it the country that makes that determination?

Well, I assume they used word naturalization just as is, and he is nto FIBA Naturalized player. Because FIBA naturalized player can have nothing to do with country whatsoever, he just needs to get passport of that country and thats it. The fact they searching and linking his encestry inplies they do not consider or plan for him to count as FIBA naturalized, not liek it really matters, because I believe CHina did not use naturalized player, but if they want, they still could.
(Or maybe he will count as naturalized player, and Chinese federation bringing his ancestry just to explain their fans why he should be on a team, Chinese are patriotic people and they probably against FIBA naturalizations.)

It is the same thing with how Calathes and Tyler Dorsey can play for Greece, neither of them is naturalized player. Brazdeikis plays for Lithuania even tho he is more Canadian at this point, but he is from Lithuanian family and country originally, so he is also not naturalzied. Same with be with Matas Buzelis or Paulo Banchero etc.

I remind that FIBA has one "naturalized'' player per team limit. Naturalized FIba player is a person who has citizenship aka simple passport of the country, but actually has no other connection to that country at all. For example, like Lorenzo Brown, who stained entire European basketball this past Autum, by seriously dragging Spain to gold medal. He should have been Eurobasketball MVP really, FIBA Europe was probably just so ashemed so talked themselves into giving MVP to WIlly Hernangomez.

Saw this story last night, someone commented "He will joining Dillon Brooks and Ben Simmons next year."