Mangok mathiang biography
Mangok mathiang biography
Mangok mathiang basketball.
Mangok Mathiang
South Sudanese-Australian basketball player
Mangok Mathiang (born 8 October 1992) is a South Sudanese-Australian professional basketball player for the Ningbo Rockets of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA).
He played college basketball for the University of Louisville.
Early life and high school career
Mathiang was born in Juba in what is now South Sudan, in central Africa.[1] At the age of five, he, his mother, and five siblings fled war-torn Sudan and moved to Egypt (which Mathiang described as "not that much better than Sudan"), to set up a move to Australia.
His father, Alfret, decided to stay behind in Sudan.[2]
Mathiang and the rest of his family arrived in Sydney, Australia, with extended family members when he was seven years old, before moving to Melbourne, Australia, a year later, where he then lived for several years.[1][3] Until he was 16 years old, Mathiang played Australian rules football, rugby,