As a basketball fan, I love to see the topic on HN.
Apparently the author shares my propensity for injury:
"I’d intended to play, but was sidelined after pulling a muscle the previous day while demonstrating a jump hook."
Nice to see an article about secular people in Tibet. Also makes sense that basketball would be popular, most of their cities are concrete structures on the sides of mountains.
China loves basketball as well. And the Philippines ! I've never seen so many people playing at once.