Tre Kelley in China

We were most aware of Tre Kelley when we were covering him while he was the freshman phenom from DC leading the Carolina men’s basketball team to one of its best seasons in recent years. He was a part of the back-to-back NIT champion teams, and was signed by a Croatian team out of college.

After that, Kelley made his way to a short stint in the NBA. And now, surprise, he’s showing up former New York Knick Stephon Marbury in China.

Marbury was outplayed by his counterpart, Tre Kelley, who finished with 34 points on 12-for-19 shooting. On an identical play with less than 30 seconds to go, Kelley would use Simmons’s screen to drive past Marbury for a layup that put Dongguan ahead 100-99. After his team’s loss, Marbury wrote on his Chinese Twitter-like site: “im sorry about the game last night. i wish we would have won for you guys. i will get better every game, i promise.”

Hey, it’s much better than hearing about Ro Howell beating up some soccer player in Italy.