It seems to me that if foreign players are banned in the Women’s Korean Basketball League it may give Korean women more playing time, but they will lose the benefit of playing against top foreign talent. This could ultimately cause a reduction in competitiveness for Korean women when competing in international basketball competitions:
KEB Hanabank player Hazmon Gwathmey, left, gives a high-five to Isabelle Harrison. / Courtesy of WKBL
Coaches from the six teams of the Women’s Korean Basketball League (WKBL) want to gradually abolish the policy allowing foreign players in the league.
Each team was allowed two foreign players, but only one could play until the league opted for a new policy allowing two foreign players to play simultaneously in the third quarter for the upcoming season.
The revised policy aimed to increase the league’s average score.
But some teams were concerned that they would be at a disadvantage if a foreign player was injured or if they had only one foreign player.
Yongin Samsung Blue Minx lost to KB Stars on Nov.18, without leading scorer Alyssa Thomas, while KB’s Damiris Dantas finished with a game high 28 points and 14 rebounds.
“At the coaches meeting, we talked about discarding the policy about foreigners,” said KEB Hanabank coach Lee Hwan-woo. “We can give Korean players more opportunity to play and use the budget used for foreign players to expand the base of women’s basketball.”
“We do not have a Korean ‘big man’ because we do not have many good Korean players,” said We Seong-woo, a coach form Woori Bank Wibee. “I think it would be right to diminish the proportion of foreigner players slowly and then abolishing the policy.” [Korea Times]
I think if I was Korean I would want to see Koreans play not foreigners.
ChickenHead
6 years ago
Do Korean teams require their foreign players be skanks and/or dykes?
Women with tattoos are unattractive enough… but arms covered in random ink that looks like the product of the third night of a 4 day bender is especially unattractive.
And like the star tops the decorations of a Christmas tree, a star on the elbow tops this manuscript of stupidity.
The other one looks like… uh… hate to steal the words of others… but… a nappy-headed ho?
A girl with a haircut like that owns a closet full of comfortable shoes and the only díck she is going to take is as a trophy with a knife.
Korea is generally pretty image-conscious. What was this team thinking?
Smokes
6 years ago
Curious, do you all actually believe this is all for competition, and athleticism? You can’t really be blind to the fact that it’s an entertainment industry that will sell out any aspect of itself for profit. 😐
Hkim
6 years ago
This is not the whole story. A backlash against all foreign players has just formed just recently in light of the Chelsey Lee scandal — an African-American player who got booted from the WKBL last year after Korean Immigration caught her engaging in identity theft so she could pretend to be half Korean and thereby illegally acquire Korean oermanent residency. Her story started unraveling when the alleged relatives she listed as coming from her jokbo (family registry on file with the government) denied having a half-black daughter or granddaughter. Oops! http://www.bbc.com/sport/basketball/36712508
@Smokes, of course a basketball league has to entertain to draw fans and remain viable. However, it does not change the fact that getting rid of the foreign players will mean a reduction in top talent for the Korean players to compete against. I really don’t care one way or another on this issue.
@HKIM, thanks for sharing the link. That is a very odd story. It is amazing that Chelsey Lee thought she could pull off this fraud when she obviously looks like she has no Korean ancestry. That is a pretty desperate fraud to try and pull off just to try and play in the Olympics.
I think if I was Korean I would want to see Koreans play not foreigners.
Do Korean teams require their foreign players be skanks and/or dykes?
Women with tattoos are unattractive enough… but arms covered in random ink that looks like the product of the third night of a 4 day bender is especially unattractive.
And like the star tops the decorations of a Christmas tree, a star on the elbow tops this manuscript of stupidity.
The other one looks like… uh… hate to steal the words of others… but… a nappy-headed ho?
A girl with a haircut like that owns a closet full of comfortable shoes and the only díck she is going to take is as a trophy with a knife.
Korea is generally pretty image-conscious. What was this team thinking?
Curious, do you all actually believe this is all for competition, and athleticism? You can’t really be blind to the fact that it’s an entertainment industry that will sell out any aspect of itself for profit. 😐
This is not the whole story. A backlash against all foreign players has just formed just recently in light of the Chelsey Lee scandal — an African-American player who got booted from the WKBL last year after Korean Immigration caught her engaging in identity theft so she could pretend to be half Korean and thereby illegally acquire Korean oermanent residency. Her story started unraveling when the alleged relatives she listed as coming from her jokbo (family registry on file with the government) denied having a half-black daughter or granddaughter. Oops! http://www.bbc.com/sport/basketball/36712508
@Smokes, of course a basketball league has to entertain to draw fans and remain viable. However, it does not change the fact that getting rid of the foreign players will mean a reduction in top talent for the Korean players to compete against. I really don’t care one way or another on this issue.
@HKIM, thanks for sharing the link. That is a very odd story. It is amazing that Chelsey Lee thought she could pull off this fraud when she obviously looks like she has no Korean ancestry. That is a pretty desperate fraud to try and pull off just to try and play in the Olympics.