If someone had told Lester Prosper back in 2011 that the then-NBA hopeful would one day play for Indonesia, he would have told them they were 'crazy'. 'I would have been like ‘No way,'' the Dominica-born center, now 34, told AFP after doing just that in a 141-37 thrashing of Laos. Players who once dreamed of major-league careers in the United States have become unlikely draftees in the battle for regional basketball dominance at the Southeast Asian Games. Chief among them are Prosper, US-born Indonesian team-mate Anthony Beane Jr and the Philippines' Justin Brownlee.

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