Enter the Dragons: Duncan Reid has designs on taking Hong Kong basketball to new heights with East Asia Super League
- Hong Kong basketball star kicks off next phase of his impressive career with the Bay Area Dragons, and developing the sport locally is his passion
- ‘We need to do a much better job of building a culture here because we’re being left behind by other Asian countries,’ Reid says
This week marked something of a new beginning for Duncan Reid.
The basketball star – and entrepreneur and leading voice for the sport in Hong Kong – settled into his new home with the Bay Area Dragons.
The new Hong Kong franchise is all set to make waves in the East Asia Super League in the Philippines, where the team will be based for their first home and away season.
It’s a major leap forward for the city’s top player, but the decision to make the jump from South China, his team of 11 years, to a fledgling new franchise was not easy.
Months of sitting on the sidelines over a Covid-enforced shutdown of Hong Kong’s A1 Division basketball league however had forced Reid to rethink his career prospects and priorities.
“I think with Covid and everything that has happened in the past couple of years, the direction of the team changed quite drastically,” Reid tells the Post in a phone call as he prepares to fly to Manila. “Sometimes you just have to move on. It wasn’t what I was expecting.”