Luol Deng is bringing home plenty of the good paper

Luol Deng is a 23-year-old forward who entered the NBA draft in 2004, and has since been plying his trade with the Chicago Bulls. Deng was born in Sudan, but when his family claimed political asylum he moved to South Norwood, where he narrowly avoided becoming a Crystal Palace fan and chose to follow Arsenal.

He moved to the US to play netball when he was 14, and yesterday signed a six-year deal with the Bulls that should line his pockets with £40m, almost twice the basic salary David Beckham is earning in Los Angeles. (Although Mr B is likely to earn much more than this because of his tendency to hawk underwear, fizzy drinks and marker pens.)

Despite being

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