In a little over a year, Zhou Qi has become arguably China’s top long-term prospect. What is it with young Chinese centers tearing it up right now? After 18 year-old Wang Zhelin turned heads at the 2012 Nike Hoop Summit in Portland, Oregon, last month, 16 year-old Zhou Qi made some serious noise of his own in Spain at the 2012 [...]
After taking the basketball court together in the NBA All-Star Game in 2003, Yao Ming and Michael Jordan are now taking to the court of law in China. Yao Ming and Michael Jordan both played in the NBA, both made multiple All-Star Games, and both came together for this great picture that is currently used by NiuBBall’s Twitter account. But [...]
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 [...]
The gossip mills of Shanghai Jiao Tong University have been turning since basketball superstar Ming Yao (226-C-80), 31, began his studies at the university’s economics school Monday, two months after the start of the academic year. Taking credits in English, mathematics and history, the former basketball star gave a press conference in the university to mark the first day of [...]
Yao Ming appears destined to be an unexpected member of the next Hall of Fame class. Officials of the basketball museum said representatives from the Chinese Basketball Association and media in China signaled plans to nominate Yao in the contributor category and bypass the usual five-year waiting period for retired players. While there is no such thing as certainty in [...]
While most NBA players are gauging the pros and cons of playing in Europe, Luis Scola says he prefers to play in China. Hoopshype lends a translation from a report in Olé, an Argentine sports newspaper: “Scola prefers Yao Ming’s land as a destination if the NBA season does not start because of the lockout. ‘It’s a more open market, [...]
With the door to the NBA that swung open nine years ago closed to him, Yao Ming on Wednesday chose “a new life.” Yao announced his retirement in a ceremony and news conference in Shanghai, citing the repeated injuries to his left foot and ankle. “At the end of the last year, my left foot had a third fracture,” Yao said. [...]
SHANGHAI — Yao Ming is likely to make it official on Wednesday, announcing what is expected to be his retirement from the NBA and a sport that made him a household name in China. The 7-foot-6 center for the Houston Rockets played eight seasons in the NBA, but has missed 250 regular-season games over the past six years. His career, [...]
There is a major reason that we have hope in the rise of basketball in India today. A reason why we feel that, one day, the game can grow in India, one day we can produce our own NBA superstar, and one day, we can challenge the world’s best hoop-playing nations at the biggest stage. And that reason is China. [...]
Here’s yet another completely depressing story in which Yao Ming talks about the possibility of never playing basketball again. Sigh. From Reuters (via China Daily): “The towering Houston Rockets center, China’s most recognizable athlete, told CCTV he could not predict when, or indeed if, he would fully recover from a serious ankle fracture suffered last November. ‘I don’t know if [...]
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