I was sitting in my apartment in Vancouver, scrolling through Weibo when I saw it – CCTV Sports’ exclusive interview with Steph Curry. The thumbnail showed him laughing with that familiar boyish grin, and I immediately clicked. Three seconds in, the dreaded spinning circle appeared. Then the message: ‘This content is not available in your region.’
My heart actually sank. Not just because I’m a Warriors fan since their 2015 championship run, but because in that moment, I wasn’t just missing an interview – I was missing a connection to home. There’s something about hearing Chinese commentators discuss basketball that hits different than ESPN. It’s the specific way they say ‘三分球’ (three-pointer) with that excited inflection, the cultural references that make sense to people who grew up watching the same shows.
I called my cousin back in Shanghai, holding my phone to her laptop speaker like some technological caveman. ‘Can you describe what he’s saying?’ I asked as she laughed at me. Through the crackly audio, I caught fragments of Curry talking about being underestimated – how people kept saying he was too small, too weak, until he revolutionized the game with his shooting.
It struck me that there’s a weird parallel between Curry’s journey and the overseas Chinese experience. We’re both constantly navigating between different worlds, adapting to different expectations. Curry had to prove he could dominate despite his physique; we have to prove we can maintain our cultural identity despite the distance.
The buffering symbol became a metaphor for that disconnect – the pause between wanting to participate in home culture and actually being able to access it. I missed the entire middle section about his 2022 championship because the video kept freezing. When it finally resumed, Curry was already talking about his legacy.
Here’s what hit hardest: when the interviewer asked Curry what keeps him grounded, he mentioned his family’s tradition of watching game films together. My family used to gather around watching CBA games every weekend, my dad explaining plays while my mom passed around sunflower seeds. Now I’m trying to watch a simple interview through three different VPNs.
I eventually found a grainy reupload on YouTube with auto-generated Chinese subtitles that kept mistranslating ‘jump shot’ as ‘jumping photograph.’ But you know what? I watched the whole thing. Because sometimes, it’s not about the perfect viewing experience – it’s about stubbornly maintaining that thread to home, even if the connection keeps dropping.
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