Stephon Marbury played his second match in the Chinese Basketball Association last night against the league leading Guangdong Southern Tigers. It was a hotly contested match, that saw the league leaders come away with a 113-104 victory, and managed to keep the Shanxi Zhongyu at arms length throughout the evening.

The main matchup of the evening was between Stephon Marbury and former Lakers starting guard Smush Parker. Parker had 13 points, 6 assists and 7 rebounds while Marbury more than held his own with a 15 point, 15 assist and 4 …

It’s easy to look at Stephon Marbury’s first game for the Shanxi Zhongyu and claim his arrival a failure, as some of his Chinese fans have hastily concluded. In 28 minutes of play, he had 5 fouls, went 0-6 from beyond the arc, let his defensive assignment drop 34 points and 5 dimes, and ended up losing to the 15th place Dongguan Marco Polo.

But how about we focus on the positives? 7-11 from the field, 4 steals, 15 points, and the right play down the stretch when he unselfishly set …

Despite not expected to play a single minute of NBA action this season, Yao Ming could have the busiest year of his life in 2010. He is currently the ambassador of the 2010 Shanghai Expo, the leading figure in the revival of the Shanghai Sharks, the anchor at the heart of China’s 2010 FIBA World Basketball Championship hopes in Turkey this summer, but all those will have to cease way to something much more important come July: the arrival of Yao Ming’s first child.
The news broke out through Guangzhou Daily …

There’s been a lot of developments brewing in the city of Cleveland in the past couple of months, but things weren’t always this way for the place some call the “Forest City”. Before May 22nd 2003, when the Cleveland Cavaliers won the right to the first pick of the NBA draft, Cleveland was a small time team in a small time market most well known for being the background of Michael Jordan’s famous game winners in the Playoffs (The Shot and The Shot II). In fact, the city of Cleveland …

So I was doing my daily roundup of reading basketball news from around the world when I stumbled across this shocking PR release featured on CNN.com. The title reads:
“American Basketball Association (ABA) Joins in $200 Million Global Expansion.”

 
I must admit, I thought that the ABA had died in 1976 when it officially merged with the NBA. When I think of the ABA, I think of the blue/red/white ‘money’ ball (used today in the NBA three point contest), of Julius Erving, and of afros and tight shorts. So I had to …

AEG and NBA formed a partnership back in May of 2008 announcing their plans to build a dozen top of the line stadiums around China. Today, that plan saw its first major victory by selling the naming rights of their soon to be completed Shanghai Arena for around 100 million dollars.
The 18,000 seat arena being built at Shanghai’s World Expo Site is  still underway, being currently jointly built by partners AEG and NBA as well as the Oriental Pearl Group (of the Shanghai Media Group). The $280 million stadium is being constructed around …