梁兆華

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Leung Shiu Wah is a member of the Hong Kong men's national basketball team; born in Hong Kong on 25 March 1994, he plays as a shooting guard and spent many years with the First Division powerhouse South China, later also turning out for Tycoon and for the Hong Kong Bulls in the National Basketball League. He attended Chiu Lut Sau Memorial Secondary School and in December 2012 won the territory-wide inter-school elite championship on his first appearance for the school team, being named most valuable player; in 2013 he received the Nike League MVP award from his idol Kobe Bryant. In 2015 Leung began playing First Division basketball for South China, scoring 17 points on his debut, and that April he sealed his first Senior Shield title by making one of two free throws with 0.4 seconds left in the final. In the 2017 season he helped South China sweep every local title with an unbeaten record, and while at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University he helped the team win four consecutive university championships. At international level he represented Hong Kong at the Asian University Basketball Championship in November 2014, winning a historic bronze, and in November 2017 was called up for the FIBA World Cup Asian qualifiers, becoming one of the first Hong Kong players to appear in World Cup competition, facing China, Korea and New Zealand. He was later named in Hong Kong's squad for the 2023 Hangzhou Asian Games.