I will reserve judgment and analysis on the Yao Ming situation until it’s clear what exactly is the prognosis on his injury. Yao Ming’s agent and the China Basketball Administrative Center seem to be doin the same:

The Sports Business Journal has reported that the Washington Wizards will head to China this offseason in search of sponsors, despite seemingly no direct link to the Middle Kingdom.
But even without their own personal Yao Ming to kickstart their journey to the Far East, this is a very wise business move and one that most teams will emulate in the coming years.
The financial crisis has no doubt severely affected most sports franchises, and alternate sources of income have become a major priority in the off-season.
China is the world’s largest basketball market, and still one that …

China’s National Basketball Team beat Australia in their second friendly match of the week with an impressive 74-61 victory. NBA stars were largely missing with Australia’s Andrew Bogut, Patrick Mills and China’s Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian all not participating in the match.
Sun Yue, who’s just completed his first season with the Los Angeles Lakers, again failed to impress with only 3 points.
Li Xiaoxu, who’s Yao Ming’s replacement at center, gave another strong performance with 13 points and 9 rebounds just one day after it was announced Yao Ming’s career …

The Chinese National Basketball Team continue their preparations for the 2009 Asia Basketball Championship, and have defeated Australia 84:78 in their first friendly match in Beilun, China.

The Chinese Basketball team was without their two star players Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian, but National team veteran and former NBA player Wang Zhizhi led all scorers with 20 points. Sun Yue came off the bench and also contributed with 4 points and 3 rebounds.
This was Guo Shiqiang’s  first match in charge of the China basketball squad. He will have a chance to collect …

Club representatives from 18 teams and committee members of the CBA met on June 23rd to complete a 2 day board meeting discussing the future of the China Basketball Association. With losses of around 115 million RMB (17 million $) in the 2008-2009 season, stakeholders clearly had alot to talk about.

Last season, in an effort to strengthen the league and garner more attention around Asia and the rest of the world, the CBA made some major changes. Games were increased from a total of 200 to 450, the limit of …

A round-up of all the NBA China News from the month of June.