More and more Asian athletes are coming to America to play professional sports. The most noticeable Asian athlete that was in America was Yao Ming. Yao came over in early 2000 and was drafted by the Houston Rockets in the first round. There are not many Asian basketball players in the NBA, but Yao made sure to give them a good name. He wasn't just all hyped up because he was Asian, but because he actually had skill. Some players didn't take him seriously like Shaq but nobody really cares what he thinks because he's not very good anyways.
There are more Asian athletes in the MLB than any other professional sport in America, besides golf. Most of the Asian athletes that come to play baseball like to go to the Seattle Mariners or the the New York Yankees. There isn't a definite reason that the players like to go there, but thats where the majority of them seem to go.
Asian athletes are making a name for themselves and are going to have more of an impact on the world than most people think. Not many Asians play in the NBA because as most people know, they aren't the biggest group of people in the world. But their determination and skill is going to show the rest of the world that just because their smaller, doesn't mean anything.
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