American NBA player Kyle Anderson gains Chinese citizenship

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Minnesota Timberwolves forward Kyle Anderson has obtained Chinese citizenship through naturalisation, the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) said on Monday (Jul 24). The 29-year-old forward from New York is the latest elite athlete to gain Chinese nationality through naturalisation and the first basketba

Minnesota Timberwolves forward Kyle Anderson has obtained Chinese citizenship through naturalisation, the Chinese Basketball Association said on Monday .

" obtained Chinese nationality this morning and met Yao Ming, chairman of the Chinese Basketball Association," the CBA said in a post on its official Weibo account. FIBA allows teams to have one naturalised player on their roster. Chinese media reported Anderson's maternal grandmother was born in Jamaica to a Chinese father and Jamaican mother.

Other athletes who were naturalised include several Brazilians who moved to China in the hopes of playing international football.

 

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