WASHINGTON, D.C. (Feb. 16, 2012) — The Organization of Chinese Americans, a national organization dedicated to advancing the political, social, and economic well-being of Asian Pacific Americans (APAs), strongly condemns sensational speech that capitalizes on an individual’s race.

Tweets sent out by Floyd Mayweather on February 13 and 14 have turned his casual observation into an outrageous claim that the “hype (behind the basketball player Jeremy Lin) is because he’s Asian.” The irony lost to Mr. Mayweather is that his dismissive statements perpetuate criticisms that are similar to the racial scrutiny that Jackie Robinson faced when he entered the Major Leagues.

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The Minnesota Timberwolves FastBreak Foundation’s WolvesCare initiative, presented by C.H. Robinson Worldwide, continues on Sat., Jan. 28, when the team hosts its “Cooking for a Cause” event.

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The 2011 WNBA Champion Minnesota Lynx announced the team’s schedule for the 2012 season.

The Lynx will tip off their 14th season in the WNBA on Sunday, May 20 vs. Phoenix at Target Center at 11:30 a.m. The game will air on ABC-TV, one of a franchise-record four nationally televised games this year.

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New America Media — A ‘friendly’ basketball game in China between Georgetown University’s team and China’s Bayi team (drawn from the People’s Liberation Army) took a decidedly unfriendly turn this week when the game was ended due to a full-court brawl.

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the charlotte Bobcats of the national Basketball association have promoted rod higgins, left, to President of Basketball operations and hired Burmese immigrant, engineer and attorney rich cho, right, as General Manager. (temm photo)

Charlotte, N.C. (June 14, 2011) – The spotlight on Asian American coaching in the National Basketball Association shifts from Erik Spoelstra – the first Filipino-American to be a head coach an NBA team – to Rich Cho, who was recently hired as General Manager of the Charlotte Bobcats.

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Minnesota Timberwolves Assistant General Manager Tony Ronzone.

By Yi Wu
AAP staff intern

MINNEAPOLIS (September 24, 2010) – The start of the new season is full of excitement as each team in the National Basketball Association prepares new and veterans players to be the team that comes out on top. For the Minnesota Timberwolves that optimism stems from a new head coach, Kurt Rambis, and helped along with new assistant general manager Tony Ronzone, the first American to coach the Chinese National Team and the man who discovered Yao Ming.

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