Posted July. 21, 2002 21:58,
Id like to make money in Korea and live with my mother.
At the US Chicago foreign players tryout camp hosted by the Korean Basketball League (KBL), Beronty Sims (23, Central Florida University) became a topic of news as the second Tony Rutland.
Sims, who is 2m 3 and black, is having a dream of completing a Korean Dream as Rutland, who is also a halfblooded between an American father and a Korean mother just like Sims, and was drafted by the SK Knights as the 1st pick in 98 ~ 99 season, did.
The birthplace of Sims is Euijungbu, Kyunggi-Do. However, his parents got divorced when he was 7 and his father went to America. After that, he could not stand for poverty and discrimination against the halfblooded people, and he went to America alone to find his father.
His life in America was not easy as he expected. Although he arrived in America, he could not find his father and merely went to school with some help of a supporter. The only reason why he started to play basketball was the scholarship.
Although he has high hope to go to Korea, there is not a good chance for him to be picked. It is because there is an intense competition in this tryout, which is said to be a tryout with the best players ever tried before.
However, there still is a slim chance for him. The point that he can say little Korean because he was born in Korea and spent his early years here is an advantage only for him out of 94 players attending the tryout. Sims was also very positive to go to Korea since he expressed his intention to enter the Korean draft by giving up the American citizenship and acquiring the Korean citizenship if he was not picked in this tryout. Sims, who played as a forward until College, was appraised to have a good rebounding skills and middle range shooting skills.
Sims said, Since I came to America, I kept in touch with my grandmother and aunt but lost contact with my mother, and after making some money, Ill find my mother and live with her.