Basketball in Iran!

By GWhang Wouldn't you know.... can you'al guess what we did one afternoon? While at the Shiraz airport waiting for our tour driver to pick us up, we notice some tall dudes! Of course, we think BB players... One of them is wearing a shirt that says "California" so I approach him and ask him if he has been to Calif. No... he answers. But, he says that they are a Professional team from Tehran and are in Shiraz to play the Shiraz team in a tournament. After exchanging all of the pertinent information about where we are from etc. etc. we exchange mobile numbers so that we can find out where the game is. So, at 4:30 PM, KG, Kat, Norm and I hail a taxi and head to their game that starts at 5 PM. Along the way, the taxi driver stopped several times to ask for directions. He found our way to the general vicinity but couldn't find the exact location of the gym. Then KG says, "Hey, that looks like a gym!" BINGO! We find the gym and join the 20 other fans. We root for the Tehran team while our taxi driver(who waited for us) cheered for the Shiraz team. What fun!!! During half time, KG went onto the floor to practice his shots... he hasn't attempted a three pointer for 3 weeks! The game was close and our "friend, a point guard" made the winning shot... The Shiraz team had a Persian Tim Lin... quick shooter with socks up to his knees. After the game, we went to contragulate the team. KG told our friend that he might be interested in playing BB in Iran. He said, "WHY?" hahaha.... But, then went on to say... "anything is possible" KG plans to keep in touch with him. So, we got our BB fix over here.

Here is a video of the game winning shot!: