Actor Park Gwang-jae had several uniform numbers when he was a professional basketball player. The uniform number is another name for the player. So it is not easy to change, except for Park Gwang-jae. If you are a player, you pay attention to the number of your tie. It is common to ask for patience and maintain your own uniform number even when moving teams by trade or the like. However, Park Gwang-jae also changed his uniform number during the season.
Park Kwang-jae was number 32 when he was attending Yonsei University, but in 2003, he joined LG, a professional, and replaced it with 41. Park Gwang-jae paid attention to No. 41 in honor of the legendary star Dirk Nowitzki of the NBA, who was a role model. Park Gwang-jae has been a center for throwing 3-point shots since Gyeongbok High School. Nowitzki, 213 cm tall, was very good at shooting for a big man. Nowitzki left 1982 three-point shots in his career. The trend of tall shooters was born with Nowitzki, and he won the 2006 All-Star match three-point shooter contest. Nowitzki is the only player with a height of 210 cm and above to be ranked in the top 20 of the three-point shooter. However, No. 41 Park Gwang-jae couldn’t even get a chance to announce his name. Park Gwang-jae chose to change his uniform number to get out of the sluggishness. There was also meaning. In LG’s days, LG Telecom’s mobile phone number started with 019, so he added 19. It became number 9 after transferring to Orions (now Orion) due to a trade in the 2009-2010 season. It was because of the advice around him that “the number is two digits, so it looks heavy, so try a single digit number.” Park Gwang-jae’s last active team was E-Land, and Park Gwang-jae changed it to 32, which was the same number as Yonsei University in 2010-2012.
Park Gwang-jae frequently changed his uniform number, but the effect was not great, and he could not get out of the shade of the nameless and took off his uniform. Park Gwang-jae said, “I had a hard time coming to the pro and I wasn’t working well, and I changed my uniform number often, but it didn’t work as much as I thought.” Park Gwang-jae pledged, “It is better than basketball that there is no uniform number to learn,” and “in the area of acting, I will penetrate the minds of fans with a name other than a uniform number.”
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