I was sitting in my tiny apartment in Toronto when my phone started blowing up with WeChat messages. It was 2 AM here, but back in China, everyone was watching the Trail Blazers vs Timberwolves game. 'Yang Hanshen's coming on!' my cousin typed, followed by a string of crying-face emojis.
I scrambled to find a stream, my fingers clumsy with excitement and sleep deprivation. The familiar frustration hit me again - the geo-blocked messages, the buffering circles, the 'this content is not available in your region' notices that have become the background music of my life abroad.
When I finally got a choppy stream working, there he was - Yang Hanshen, checking in at the scorer's table with 7:13 left in the first quarter. The camera zoomed in on his face, and I could see that mix of nerves and determination I remember from watching CBA games with my dad back in Shanghai.
My mind flashed back to three years ago, sitting in a noisy hot pot restaurant with friends, watching Yang dominate in the Chinese Basketball Association. The steam from the broth fogged up our phones as we argued about whether he'd ever make it to the NBA. 'If he does,' my friend Li Wei said through a mouthful of beef, 'we'll have to wake up at ungodly hours to watch him play from overseas.'
Well, Li Wei, you called it. According to the NBA's international viewership data I looked up later, over 68% of Chinese viewers abroad experience streaming issues during prime games. But we still try - because moments like Yang's debut feel like checking in on a little brother from the other side of the world.
What hit me hardest wasn't even the game itself. It was the WeChat group blowing up with reactions from home - my aunt complaining about the commentator's bias, my high school friend analyzing Yang's footwork, my mom asking if basketball players get cold in those short sleeves. That's the stuff geo-blocking can't take away from us.
As I write this, it's 3 AM in Toronto. My coffee's gone cold, and my stream keeps freezing at the worst moments. But you know what? Seeing Yang out there on that NBA court made every buffering second worth it. How about you? What's the one thing from back home that you'd stay up all night to watch, technical difficulties be damned?
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