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Basketball’s other globe-trotters do battle in Southeast Asia

PHNOM PENH (AFP) – If someone had told Lester Prosper back in 2011 that the then-NBA hopeful would one day play for Indonesia, he would have told them they were “crazy”. “I would have been like ‘No way,’” the Dominica-born centre, now 34, told AFP after doing just that in a 141-37 thrashing of Laos. Players who once dreamed of major-league careers in the United States have become unlikely draftees in the battle for regional […]