Kang Dong-hee was born on 20 December 1966 and is a South Korean former basketball player and coach.
17 Facts About Kang Dong-hee
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Kang Dong-hee competed in the men's tournament at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
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Kang Dong-hee spent his schooling years in Incheon and was first introduced to basketball in elementary school but stopped playing for a number of years due to his short stature.
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Kang Dong-hee's interest was reignited when some soldiers from the nearby military base visited his middle school and played basketball with the students.
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Kang Dong-hee attended Songdo High School, one of the oldest high school basketball programs in Gyeonggi Province.
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Kang Dong-hee joined Kim and Hur at the Busan-based amateur basketball team of Kia in 1990 and played a major role in the team's dominance of the pre-KBL semi-professional league.
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Kang Dong-hee averaged 15.6 points and 7.3 assists in the regular season and 18.0 points and 6.0 assists in the play-offs.
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Kang Dong-hee stayed with the reorganized team for another season before joining Changwon LG Sakers.
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At the time of his retirement, Kang Dong-hee was the first player in KBL history to record 2000 assists and score a triple-double.
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Kang Dong-hee led the league in assists for four seasons.
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Kang Dong-hee went into coaching, joining the coaching staff of Wonju DB Promy in 2005 and then serving as head coach from 2009 to 2013.
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Kang Dong-hee was reportedly the first head coach of a professional team from the four major domestic team sports to be arrested, charged and imprisoned for match-fixing.
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The investigation into Kang Dong-hee was linked to a wider crackdown and investigation into illegal sports betting which involved a number of personalities from the entertainment industry, including Kim Yong-man and Lee Soo-geun.
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Kang Dong-hee appeared on the JTBC sports variety program Let's Play Basketball in an episode scheduled to air in June 2021, the theme being "National Basketball Festival", the main basketball competition of the pre-KBL era.
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Kang Dong-hee had been invited as he was a member of the Busan Kia team of the 1980s and early 1990s which dominated the competition.
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Kang Dong-hee married Lee Kwang-sun in 2004 and they have two sons.
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Kang Dong-hee was the last of the "Hur-Dong-Taek Trio" to marry and has two sons like Hur and Kim.