Former Kentucky men’s basketball player Marcus Lee is preparing to become a permanent resident of Australia.
Lee has played professional hoops in Australia for the last four seasons.
Here is an excerpt of Lee’s comments on the decision to seek permanent residency:
“I’m currently in the process, we started our our permanent residency… which would lead me to be a Aussie citizen this time next year,” he said on the Cut to the Jase with NBL legend Jason Cadee.
“(My wife and I have) talked about it, like where do we even just see ourselves retiring and just kind of living for the foreseeable future and we’re like we definitely love Australia and that’s one of our big pushes to be like let’s work on getting this citizenship and if we want to stay here even after basketball we can.
“I think that’s what really drove us is that we just love the culture of Australia.”
