One of the NBA’s most gifted players ever, has now been out of the league since 2010. A sure fire HOF candidate when eligible, former #1 overall draft pick Allen Iverson has been searching for the answer to his question for the past 2.5 years, why won’t an NBA team give me a chance, bench player or not. Even though [...]
The National Basketball League, the so-called minor league of the CBA, doesn’t get a ton of love in these parts or within China, mostly because it runs during the summer, which is the height of the China National Team season, and because it generally sucks. Add in the fact that media coverage is minimal, games aren’t usually shown on television [...]
Li Ning will become the official outfitter of the Chinese Basketball Association starting in the 2012-13 season after agreeing to pay the league CNY 2 billion (roughly US 317 million) over the next five years, according to a report by NetEase. NetEase also reports that Li Ning outbid rivals Nike, adidas and Anta, the latter of whom had held exclusive apparel [...]
True to their word, Bob Donewald and the Chinese Basketball Association have announced two cuts on the heels of the first three exhibition games of the Chinese National Team’s summer London warm-up schedule: Yang Ming and Zhu Yanxi. They are the fourth and fifth players to be released from National Team duty this year. They join Xirelijiang, Duan Jiangpeng and Li [...]
Have a look at the video below, the 2012 CBA All-Star Game which shows some of the worst sequence in the basketball history. What are your comments on this?
Host teams show no mercy winning all games. The game had a very big importance for second-ranked Hebei as it allowed them to take a leadership position. Hebei defeated 9th ranked Heilongjiang at home 117-107. The hosts trailed by 4 points after first quarter, but they rallied back to get the 3-point lead at the halftime and eventually won the [...]
Allen Iverson is in China for a two-week promotional basketball tour — something billed as the NBA Legends Tour (alongside Iverson will be Dennis Rodman, Clyde Drexler, Shawn Kemp and Stephon Marbury) — but Marbury thinks his former NBA rival would do very well if he stuck around for a while. (After all, Starbury would know.) From Niubball: “Shorty after [...]
The 2011-12 CBA season is officially in the books. And so are the different numbers and statistics that were accumulated over the years. Now, they’re on a computer screen in English for your enjoyment. If there were any numbers that stood out to you this season, feel free to write them in the comments. More good post-season CBA wrap stuff [...]
We – and I mean we basketball fans, critics, writers, observers, and the rest who judge basketball without professionally playing basketball – all too often take the liberty to determining what counts as ‘success’ for others. We say that a basketball player is successful if he is good enough to make the NBA. We say a player is successful if [...]
Ask, and no one would question that Stephon Marbury has been the best player in the Chinese Basketball Association this season. And nobody would question that he’s been the best player in the first four games of the Finals. But, thanks to two CBA rules, Marbury won’t be officially recognized by the league as such. Forget for a minute that [...]
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