Michigan State Football and Basketball are both in full swing, but my favorite Spartan story of the winter might be happening in Taiwan.
As we covered a few weeks back, former Michigan State star Branden Dawson was recently signed by Jeoutai Technology of Taiwan’s Super Basketball League. That news was first relayed to MSU fans on Facebook by Tiger Chang, a Taiwanese Spartan and a major fan of Spartan hoops. Now that Dawson is in Taiwan, Chang has rallied a ton of support for Dawson, who is now getting his own MSU cheering section at SBL games:
As Spartan fans in the United States, we can sometimes take for granted that we can easily (outside of a pandemic) go see Michigan State play games at the Breslin, or go see an NBA game with Miles Bridges, Draymond Green, etc. In Taiwan, that’s not really a possibility. Tiger Chang told me what this experience has meant to him personally:
“It is a dream come true for me. For a Spartan for life person like me, I couldn’t imagine that one day there is a Spartan basketball player playing on my home land, Taiwan. Branden is the first Spartan men’s basketball player playing in Taiwan. This means a lot to me and many Spartans in Taiwan.” -Tiger Chang
Chang has been covering the games in the Michigan State Recruiting & News Facebook group, and according to him, Dawson has been huge for Jeuotai, recording double-doubles while leading the team to multiple victories.
Go Green!
