Word: okafor
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Dates: during 2003-2003
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...Sharks have two days to prepare for the Hong Kong Flying Dragons. For the American players the writing seems to be on the wall: according to the Shanghai Daily, a Nigerian center named Uche Ejelu Okafor?declared ineligible by the NCAA a year ago when he tried to play at Missouri?has been called in for a secret tryout with the Sharks...
...evening of the game, the Sharks break out of their desolation with such intensity that they seem to have trained on maotai liquor instead of boiled noodles. There is no sign of Okafor. If his name was floated merely to warn the Americans?"killing the chicken to scare the monkey," in the words of a Chinese proverb?the ploy has worked, at least for one night...