Adrian Tham

Adrian Tham is a Singaporean-New Zealander rabbit to be played on FBA in 2023.

He is currently played for the Tennessee Moonshiners as a guard.

## Biography & Early Life

Born in a busy rich country of South East Asia, Adrian grew up with a poor and troublesome family, although the family managed to get some income during Adrian’s childhood. Meanwhile, Adrian is having hard time dealing with his family sometimes, due to his mother and father constant arguing sometimes in their home because of financial problems.

When Adrian reached in his primary school years, he managed to get some good grades throughout his early years. Then when the school given on what after school activity they want, Adrian was not interested at first but he remembers his father used to play badminton with him on every evening since his father wants to pursue him to become a badminton player. So, he chooses badminton as his sports school activity, to follow his father’s style. The father and son duo played badminton everyday and Adrian also participate several badminton competition in his primary school before. Little did he know one day, he came back home and he found out that his father was arrested for money laundering and fraud, he was caught involving with the mafia in his local town and was sentenced to 10 years in local prison. This broke Adrian’s heart and caused him to failing his school grades and of course…losing interest on badminton. He quit badminton after graduation of his primary school years.

After his graduation, he and his mother have been decided move to Auckland, a big city in New Zealand to get a better new life after what happened to his father. After Adrian attended on his new high school on New Zealand, he constantly keeps skipping extra classes and keeps failing on his school subjects and plays video games everyday on a cyber café instead of studying. He also been caught by the police many times for doing juveniles activities outside of his school and home, although he doesn’t really care anymore because he thinks there’s no point on moving forward anymore. That is when he noticed his classmates, who have been involved on a basketball competition, decided to check on them playing. And when he looking at them playing, he was amazed by it since he thinks that this sport might fit him and try to forgot about his past life. Consider that badminton already made him good at jumping and on fast reflex.

The next day, he decided to join the basketball club. As years of high school goes, he found his bond on playing basketball and making new friends and supports. His coach noticed he has the potential. Consider Adrian remember he’s a rabbit and has unique jumping skills and stamina and swifts than any player on his team and his opponents’ teams. This makes him more unique than any basketball player in the New Zealand and Singapore history. Although his mother was disappointed and disagree at first when he heard this but she later changed her mind and said she happy and proud that his son had found a better dream and future for his family.

After getting more basketball competitions in his high school, he graduated and decided to further study again on his current university but later dropped out due to his juveniles history and need of money for his family. He was then remembering about a story there are some known rabbit players in the FBA, and he decided think he wants to join the FBA not for his family but also to show the world his skills and inspiration. He said his goodbye to his mother and then headed to America, to get a new life over there and hopefully gets accepted on the FBA this year.

## FBA Career

### 2023-2024 FBA Season

Adrian gets picked by the Tennessee Moonshiners in number 39th overall on FBA draft 2nd round.

## Trivia

* He is based on Raboot from Pokemon
* He is also the first and only character to have dual citizenship.
* He is also a second character to have Chinese and Asian background, right after Raymond Lee.
* He is the first FBA character to be a Singaporean born