Within Chinese American communities, participation in sports has been a way to form bonds with other Chinese Americans and cross cultural boundaries. In New York City’s Chinatown, basketball courts were scarce but 22 different basketball teams cropped up across the metropolitan area from the 40s to the mid-60s. During the mid-1930s, a group of young men called the Chinese Athletic Club (CAC) would meet for an hour every week at the Church of All Nations on Second Avenue and Houston Street in New York to play basketball and swim. The World War II draft and Japanese internment stole away many players from teams across the city. One of the CAC's founding members, Coach Lung Chin (Back Row, Center), consolidated the Chinese Basketball Club and the Dragons into the CAC and sacrificed time from his business to shape his players into true athletes. Representing the local Police 5th Precinct, the newly formed Chinatown Midgets, pictured above, won 25 straight games to win the Police Athletic League NYC Midget Championship in 1945, even playing an exhibition game before a sold out crowd at Madison Square Garden during the National Invitation Tournament (NIT) for college basketball that year. The team's success generated sources to form the Chinese Community Club (CCC.)
In 2012, Jeremy Lin and the “Linsanity” phenomenon put a global spotlight on perceptions of Asian American masculinity, sparked a debate about the myth of a pure athletic meritocracy at work in evaluating player potential, and highlighted the degree to which Asian American basketball networks are able to produce elite players.
在华裔美国人社区，参与体育运动已成为与其他华裔美国人建立联系及跨越文化界限的一种方式。在纽约市的唐人街，篮球场稀缺，但从40年代到60年代中期，大都会地区涌现了22支不同的篮球队。20世纪30年代中期，一群名为“华人体育俱乐部”（Chinese Athletic Club ，简称CAC）的年轻人每周会在纽约第二大道和休斯顿街的万国教堂（Church of All Nations）聚会一个小时，一起打篮球和游泳。第二次世界大战的征兵和拘禁日本人带走了市内的许多队员。CAC的创始成员之一，教练Lung Chin（后排，中间）将华人篮球俱乐部（Chinese Basketball Club）和龙队（Dragons）合并为CAC，并牺牲了自己的工作时间，以培养他的球员成为真正的运动员。1945年，新成立的唐人街矮人队（Chinatown Midgets，见上图）代表当地警署第五辖区参加纽约警署体育联盟矮人冠军赛，连赢25场获得冠军。他们甚至还在当年的全国大学篮球邀请赛期间，在满座的麦迪逊花园广场里打了一场表演赛。该队的成功为华人社区俱乐部（Chinese Community Club，简称CCC）的成立奠定了基础。
2012年，林书豪（Jeremy Lin）和“林来疯”（Linsanity）现象引起全球对亚裔美国人阳刚之气的关注，引发了一场关于纯粹地通过评估球员潜力来选拔体育英才的神话般的讨论，并着重强调了亚裔美国篮球界能够培养精英球员的程度。
Countdown to the TCS NYC Marathon on November 3, 2019: 216 Days.
2019年是美国第一条横贯大陆铁路建成150周年，为了纪念第一批华人来美建设这条铁路所做出的巨大贡献， MOCA将其2019 TCS NYC Marathon的活动命名为 MOCA Spike 150 – Running Forward With Our Stories！ 鼓励大家通过马拉松公益跑，全国线上接力，以及一天一个故事的方式讲述150个华人的历史故事，敬请大家持续关注， 讲出华人自己的故事，回顾过去，立足现在，展望未来，共同书写美国历史，使之更加充实完整。