If you are an Asian-American with an Economics degree from Harvard, breaking ankles in the NBA is not the natural post-graduation career path. Actually, you don’t even need the stereotypical degree from an Ivy League school. Previous to this year, if you were of Asian-American descent, the closest you got to seeing NBA action was…
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