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After just four years of basketball, refugee eyes NBL

Deng Acouth

Deng Acouth Source: SBS

Deng Acouth only started playing basketball four years ago.Now, he is on the cusp of representing the Sydney Kings in Australia's National Basketball League. It is a journey that started in South Sudan. Deng Acouth was six years old when he learned he would be leaving his Kenyan refugee camp for a new life in Australia.



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