NBA + API: Jabari Parker + Jordan Clarkson

Monday, June 30, 2014

Who knew?

From NBC: "But Parker's ancestry -- his mother is from the Polynesian island of Tonga -- also makes him the highest-ranked Asian-Pacific Islander ever to be drafted by the NBA."

From PhilStar: "Filipino-American player Jordan Clarkson has been acquired by the Los Angeles Lakers in the 2014 NBA Draft on Friday morning [...] Clarkson, a shooting guard from the Missouri Tigers, has a Filipino mother."