The People’s Republic has lacked a true basketball star since Yao retired in 2011. This quartet of young stars is determined to change that. Yao turned the basketball word’s focus toward China in 2002, the year he was selected first overall in the NBA draft. He spent ten years as a dominant force in the […]
The top Chinese pro league is officially stacked. Here are seven hard-hitting reasons why. When the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) launched in 1995 it looked more like a YMCA men’s league than a professional league. The quality of play has improved steadily, however, and by 2014 the league had a group of deep-pocketed teams able […]
The world’s most populous nations is now its most basketball-mad. As a fan and bettor, you need to start paying attention to China. China’s meteoric rise has dominated headlines and political debates for the past decade. No longer a backward, impoverished nation of peasants, the People’s Republic is now punching its weight on the international […]
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