China played the first exhibition game in the preparation for the 2012 Olympic Games. China faced USA All Star team in Beijing. China dominated from start to finish posting a 106:78 victory. The teams will meet again on Friday. Zhu FangYu (201-F-83) scored 20 points to lead the effort. Sun Yue (206-G/F-85) contributed 15 points, while Wang ShiPeng (196-G/F-83) added [...]
Together for over a month, Bob Donewald Jr. has seen enough to know which players he can do without this August in London. So much in fact, that he doesn’t even need to watch them play a single warm-up game. In a surprise move, Donewald announced three cuts from the National Team team today: Guards Xirelijiang and Duan Jiangpeng, and [...]
Two. That’s the amount of years its been since Team China improbably got out of the group stages in Turkey at the 2010 FIBA World Championship, thanks to, of all things, a last second three-point fling from Puerto Rico’s David Huertas against Cote d’Voire. As China fans know, Huertas’ three caused Group C’s last game to end in a 88-79 [...]
Dwyane Wade says that his participation in this summer’s Olympic games is by no means a guarantee. From NBA.com: “Dwyane Wade sounded slightly less than 100 percent certain he’ll be in London no matter what, even after accepting the invite to what would be his third Olympics after being prodded by his 2008 Beijing teammates (‘Kobe was like, ‘if my [...]
In what could turn out to be a prelude to a gold-medal matchup in the 2012 London Olympics, Kobe Bryant and LeBron James will lead Team USA against rival Spain in an exhibition on July 24 in Barcelona, sources said. The game will be played at 3:30 p.m. ET in the Palau Sant Jordi mountainside arena, and promises to be [...]
The Basketball tournament at the 2012 Olympics in London – respected by many as the highest level of basketball competition in the world – will pit 12 of the world’s strongest teams from every region in the Men’s and Women’s divisions against each other. Qualification of the tournament began with the FIBA World Championship for Men in 2010; to date, [...]
The FIBA Asia Championship starts on September 15th in Wuhan, Hubei province in China. Like the FIBA Americas, FIBA Oceania and FIBA EuroBasket Championships that already underway, and the FIBA Africa Championship that concluded on August 26, the winner of the Asia Championship receives an automatic berth into the 2012 London Olympics. Throughout the tournament’s history, the Asia Championship’s result [...]
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