'Blessed to know him as a person': An Iowa scientist's unlikely friendship with Charles Barkley
Posted Dec 16, 2018
It's not the most likely friendship, the one between a 6-foot-6 NBA legend and a 5-foot-6 scientist living in Iowa. But it was one that brought Charles Barkley to Iowa for a funeral this past summer. He came to remember his friend Lin Wang, a Chinese born cat litter chemist who died of cancer. Wang's daughter tells the tale that began in a California hotel bar four years ago.
(Des Moines Register)
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