So you want to be a basketball star?

Almost anyone who’s lived abroad came back with stories of baffling or funny mismatched expectations. Massachusetts writer David Fromm shared his own experience of attempting a pro basketball career in Prague, despite not being very good at the sport. He had the audience laughing at GBH’s storytelling project, Stories From The Stage.

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