Misaka Tale Featured in Documentary
Legendary guard Wat Misaka is the subject of a new documentary film that will screen for free at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 1 p.m. on Saturday.
The Utes don't play that day, either, so the day is wide open.
The film -- "Transcending: The Wat Misaka Story" -- profiles the first ethnic minority player in the NBA, who led the Utes to national championships in 1944 and 1947 (while serving in the U.S. Army, in between) and became a first-round draft pick amid a cultural climate for Japanese so unfriendly in the World War II era that he had friends locked up at the Topaz Internment Camp in the central Utah desert.
"His perseverance and loyalty to his teammates, other Nissei friends (including those interned at Topaz), and his family are a testament to the unflappable Japanese-American spirit," the film's web site says.
The Utes don't play that day, either, so the day is wide open.
The film -- "Transcending: The Wat Misaka Story" -- profiles the first ethnic minority player in the NBA, who led the Utes to national championships in 1944 and 1947 (while serving in the U.S. Army, in between) and became a first-round draft pick amid a cultural climate for Japanese so unfriendly in the World War II era that he had friends locked up at the Topaz Internment Camp in the central Utah desert.
"His perseverance and loyalty to his teammates, other Nissei friends (including those interned at Topaz), and his family are a testament to the unflappable Japanese-American spirit," the film's web site says.
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