The Oddest [b-ball] Fan (Kim Jong Il?)

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This piece could also go in the policital forum, but why tarnish Kim Jong Il's love for the game with political rhetoric?

It's a great piece, here's the beginning then the link:

While the rest of the world watches Kim Jong Il, fearful of North Korea's nuclear threat, the dictator often can't take his eyes off ... the NBA

By Mark Zeigler
STAFF WRITER

October 29, 2006

The image most Westerners probably have of Kim Jong Il, the reclusive North Korean leader who recently tested a nuclear device, is that of a diminutive, diabolical dictator with big glasses and even bigger hair, sitting in one of his lavish palaces with a tray of Beluga caviar and Hennessy XO cognac, one finger firmly on the button.

Which probably isn't too far from the truth – the button being on a television remote control.

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It's Shaq and the Miami Heat against the Chicago Bulls.

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There's Kobe and the Los Angeles Lakers hosting the Phoenix Suns.

By most accounts, Kim is a totalitarian despot who is -bent on developing nuclear weapons to gain diplomatic leverage against the rest of the planet and who may or may not sell that technology to raise cash for his impoverished nation. But he also is an avid basketball fan, experts on North Korea say, so much so that he is said to have regulation courts at most of his palaces plus a video library of practically every game Michael Jordan ever played for the Bulls.

Read the rest here

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My question is how does he get the NBA feed?

Has the North Korean Embassy a League Pass subscription?

Let's trade him the Atlanta Hawks for his nucular stash.

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Let's trade him the Atlanta Hawks for his nucular stash.

It would appear his time is taken with teams of substance.

Let's give him the Mavs! Yeah, that's the ticket.

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^^^^^^