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 [...]
It’s a most wonderful time to be a basketball fan in China: While the NBA season continues post-All Star break and the NCAA’s big boys are starting up their conference tournaments, we China folk are three weeks into our own Chinese Basketball Association’s post-season. With two excellent semi-finals match-ups getting ready for Game 2 tonight, we here have plenty to [...]
Jeremy Lin was a bench-warmer for the New York Knicks before he became an NBA sensation. Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, Knicks reject Stephon Marbury is tearing up the Chinese league. While “Lin-sanity” is now known across the globe, in China it’s competing with “Marbury madness” after the Brooklyn native led the Beijing Ducks to the Chinese [...]
The game of basketball comes in a plethora of colours, and my personal crusade as a basketball fanatic is to experience the full spectrum. Thus, on a recent trip to China, I made it a point to catch a Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) game. Unfortunately, the circumstances were not kind, and I missed both the Zhejiang derby while in Hangzhou [...]
Who is the brightest star after the first week of play in the Chinese Basketball Association? Of course it is Wilson Chandler, who had 43 points and 22 rebounds in his first game. But the one who attracted the most attention was J.R. Smith. You may have known that, because the news and video of Smith’s injury traveled fast. Smith [...]
China’s most beloved New Yorker, Stephon Marbury, arrived for his third season in the Chinese Basketball Association at Beijing Capital Airport on October 6th with a bunch of bags, a lot of smiles and two big band-aids on his head. (And as always, a lot of people with cameras taking his photos.) After playing one and a half seasons Taiyuan, [...]
Tipster Kevin alerts us to an ongoing case in Montgomery County, Ohio, in which an affiliate of Wachovia/Wells Fargo is suing a familiar name—defendant Stephon X. Marbury. Last we checked in with Starbury, things had gone somewhat off-script: His Chinese basketball team dumped him, but he had caught on with another team, and his business ventures were all doing well. [...]
Stephon Marbury’s favorite city in China may be Beijing, but that doesn’t mean the two-time CBA All-Star has already decided to play there next season. Quoting an inside source with the team, the Legal Evening News reported earlier today that Marbury and the Beijing Shougang Ducks had reached an agreement on a contract for next season. The terms and length [...]
Stephon Marbury, who was the fourth overall pick of the 1996 Draft class with the likes of Allen Iverson, Kobe Bryant, Ray Allen, Steve Nash, and Marcus Camby, has been playing in China for a year already. In a recent interview done in the New York Sports website, Marbury revealed his plans of staying long-term in the Asian country. Initially [...]
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