Alot of it has to do with if they have visited certain regions or have known associates.

Every carries on about USA travel ban but a number of countries have had similar bans/lists in place for a number of years just with alot less fan fair.

For Majok's sake i hope they get it cleared up as by all reports he is a fantastic person.

Majok one of the nicest guys you would ever meet. Saw him a couple of weeks ago and he was so excited to visit Singapore as one of his best mates from Windsor Gardens was from the island state. Sad if denied entry, hope it gets figured out. Was he sent straight back to Australia?

"anything goes"... Right. We've got an infamous detention center off our shores, and some of the most infamous border control staff too.

Anyway, back to hoops. Sucks for Deng, and a learning experience for the league. It's great that the Sixers are doing a tournament like this, but these are the type of situations teams need to be aware of when bringing teams to other countries. Probably the last thing to cross anyone on the Sixers' minds.

I don't think there is a rule to ban Sudanese or Africans into Singapore, its a commercial and tourism hub.

They do have the questions like have you been to Africa in the last 6 months etc but that is for health reasons.

Sounds like a visa stuff-up and he's back in Adelaide

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Confused as to where I stated that being a nice person counts in matters such as these?

IMHO the major issue here is why the 36ers office did not address or enquire about this issue before the team left Adelaide. This seems to be poor administration and nothing else.

Could be visa related as mentioend above as they won't be entering Singapore under a common tourist visa would they?

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/basketball/adelaide-36ers-basketballer-majok-deng-refused-entry-into-singapore-ahead-of-preseason-tournament/news-story/c9a63346fd6f53882e842c4f7f9f1fc1

Let's be civil about this and call it a lesson learned.

Nice guy but not his or Adelaides fault.

If club didn't know he had visited a "no go" zone before his time at the club asking the question based on his background would be seen by many as racial/ethnic profiling as you can bet they wouldn't have asked Creek the same question.

In our current PC outraged world if word got out they asked him and no one else there would be all sorts of out rage.

Reality what the hell are you talking about? That "no go zone" is Majok's country of birth which he fled as a humanitarian refugee to Australia via way of Kenya. He hasn't been back since.

He's an Australian with a Australian passport, which would list his place of birth as Bor, Sudan, which is what has prevented him from entering the country. Singapore is visa free for Australians hence why the sixers presumed no problem.

But what's this crap about asking about his background creating an issue of recital profiling? It's common knowledge where he is from.

As i said all reports are he is a good bloke and with an Aussie passport so the club shouldn't have expected any issues.

Its not the clubs fault and they surely can;t ask the question if he has ever visited his country of birth which last time i checked is a no-go zone for immigration/visitors for many countries around the world.

But they don't need to ask if he has visited his country of birth, it's his country of birth, by the act of being born there he has visited it.

Haha wow going around in circles.

It was "Reality" who did not understand that there was no need to ask Majok's country of birth.

Fabricated junk