Pacers Fanbase Growing In China
by Tom Lewis on Sep 22, 2009 6:34 AM EDT
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Gotta be a few Pacers fans among the 1.3 billion people in China, right?
As the Pacers prepare for their preseason trip to play games in Beijing China and Taipei, Taiwan, Pacers.com has launched a Asian Games Central with player interviews and information on the games and trip.
The main story is about PacersChina.com, a site linked here from day one that has been the voice of Pacers fans in China since 2000. The site's co-founder Hollick Lee shares his story about the Pacers' following in China and how he went against popular opinion during Michael Jordan's dominance of the NBA and instead fell in love with the challenger, Reggie Miller and the Indiana Pacers. After launching the site, Lee found out he wasn't the only Pacers fan in China. Great story.
Along with Lee's story are interviews on the upcoming trip with Troy Murphy, T.J. Ford and Danny Granger. Granger appears to have taken to Tyler Hansbrough's minimal answer technique. Maybe something was lost in translation.
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Great story
The NBA has great appeal in China, and it’s great to know that there are plenty of fans for not only the Pacers, but every team, real basketball aficionados. It’s great to hear about.
And even though I only attend a couple of games a year at Conseco, I loved this quote from the article:
Xunxun, a girl from Shanghai, said, "Some day, I wanted to sit in the Conseco Fieldhouse and tell my child, ‘this is what your mother has been rooting for decades.’ "
Wow, that makes me really appreciate what I’m lucky enough to have only an hour away from me. While I have something similar to this as a Dodgers fan in Indiana, I only have about 2000 miles to travel to Dodger Stadium, not half the world for Conseco.
I hope there’s a great turnout for these NBA games in China. There are great fans in China, and they deserve it.
by goodlucksaturday on Sep 22, 2009 4:29 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
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