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SI<\/a>: Xaivian Lee\u2019s late three-pointer secure\u2019s Florida\u2019s upset against #10 Vanderbilt<\/span><\/p>\n In other news, I learned of Xaivian Lee\u2019s existence and upon a cursory fact check, yes he is Korean.\u00a0 Which means that there is a Korean hooper out there outside of Korea, that is actively playing for a North American D-I program.<\/span><\/p>\n Color me surprised and fascinated.<\/span><\/p>\n Granted, according to his wiki<\/a>, boy is from Toronto, and is about as white-washed as I am, especially based on the fact that his name is \u201cXaivian,\u201d and based on his general physical appearance and the fact that he cleared 6\u20190, I\u2019d really be curious to what his 23 and Me looks like, but for all intents and purposes, he\u2019s of enough Korean descent for this post to manifest.<\/span><\/p>\n My knee-jerk reaction to seeing that he had transferred out of Princeton to go to UF was that his parents must have been apoplectic at the notion of him leaving an Ivy to go to an SEC school, but I saw that he was at Princeton for four years, which leads to the assumption that he had to have graduated, which is the absolute bare minimum of acceptance for Korean parents.\u00a0 I\u2019d guess that they let him chase his dream of moar hooping contingent of graduation from an Ivy League school although they probably would have preferred if he went to Harvard or Yale instead of Princeton.<\/span><\/p>\n Initially, I was ready to make all the bad jokes in the world about own disappointed his parents must\u2019ve been that he went from Princeton to Florida.\u00a0 But the more I read and learn about his general bio, the more my thoughts and opinions alter, since I\u2019m kind of writing this off the cuff and learning while I write as opposed to doing my research in advance and coming up with a general basis before writing out.<\/span><\/p>\n Seeing as how ol\u2019 Xaivian finished his time at Princeton, and his numbers scream out, nowhere close to good enough for the NBA<\/em> much less should he even want to go considering the absolute racist gate he would be inevitable to slam into, he\u2019s a perfect case for the college player to bilk as much eligibility and NIL money as humanly possible, and a move to UF was probably a great idea.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n And therein lies some of the effects of the NIL pendulum swung so hard to the opposite end of the spectrum, where fringe and no-chance-at-pro caliber players are clinging to dear life at college eligibility and are looking like a bunch of Van Wilders staying at school at 24+ years of age.\u00a0 But for every Asian athlete that literally has no shot at North American pros, there are probably like 3-4 non-Asians who might be, but know they can still bilk more from NIL versus being a practice squad or development prospect at the pro level, and these guys can eat dicks and gtfo out of the NCAA.<\/span><\/p>\n I saw some shit recently about how there were like over 3,000 players currently in the transfer portal currently; that\u2019s almost like 60-70 entire teams\u2019 worth of players.\u00a0 This is what\u2019s making college sports so crazy right now, is that the entire collegiate level is jam packed full of all these kids bouncing around all over the place trying to sniff out as much NIL money as they can.\u00a0 And among them are all these 23+ year old graduates enrolling in patsy graduate programs in order to keep playing college sports against other Van Wilders or literal teenagers.<\/span><\/p>\n But I\u2019m straying off topic here, the point of this post was to acknowledge the existence of Xaivian Lee, an actual Korean hooper playing for a noteworthy NCAA program, and being good enough to be hitting game winning threes and getting a little bit of spotlight from North American sport media.\u00a0 He may have already graduated from Princeton and is doing a little bit of Van Wilder-ing because he knows he has no shot at the NBA, but there\u2019s no doubt in my mind that his parents are probably still disappointed in him, even if he is pulling in a million bucks in NIL.\u00a0 They probably think he could\u2019ve already been making four times that had he traded up to Harvard or Yale and become a doctor or lawyer instead.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SI: Xaivian Lee\u2019s late three-pointer secure\u2019s Florida\u2019s upset against #10 Vanderbilt In other news, I learned of Xaivian Lee\u2019s existence and upon a cursory fact check, yes he is Korean.\u00a0 Which means that there is a Korean hooper out there outside of Korea, that is actively playing for a North American D-I program. 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