Funny. yet...
There was, not long ago, an Asian NBA player of some note.
Jeremy(?) Lin.
He was expected to assert his minority status and be offended by those who would try to short-circuit his fame.
He didn’t care.
He simply ignored the noise and played ball.
Well.
He was around for a while and made a few pennies.
maybe yao ming ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yao_Ming
heck of a player.
Shaq, in his HOF acceptance speech(Heck of a speech)
claimed something to the effect that Ming was one of the toughest centers he faced...of course Ming was in the crowd and was going into the HOF the same year as Shaq.