Short after Li Ning’s successful China trip with it’s main NBA spokesmen, Peak Brand will aim to follow suit with its very own tour across 6 cities.
Lucky fans in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Chongqing, Shenyang will get a chance to see up close one of the NBA’s most succesful point guards of all time, Jason Kidd of the Dallas Mavericks. The other high-profile Peak stars are long time face of the brand Shane Battier, and the bad boy of the NBA Ron Artest.

Schedule is as follows if you happen to …

The NBA Jam Van is the NBA’s interactive touring activity for fans to get closer to the game they love, and it’s currently touring around in China. From the official site:
NBA Jam Van  (…) is THE place for basketball fans of all ages! No matter what your skill level, come on out for a FREE authentic NBA experience!
Step on the court to show off your best basketball skills. You can hit free throws, sink three pointers, compete in dribbling, passing and shooting contests, and see if you have what it …

Baron Davis and Jose Calderon have been in China for this past week, much like Shaq, as part of a Li Ning sponsored tour. The two spent a day in Shanghai visiting the Li Ning flagship store in Nanjing East Road – a busy shopping street in the heart of town.
The two met fans and witnessed some traditional Chinese culture, as well as going head to head in the nation’s most close to heart sport, PingPong. Baron Davis wasted no time revealing his fun personality, hugging locals and apologizing to them after …

While Yao and the Shanghai Sharks have been in the news recently, it is another shark that has grabbed the headlines. Big Shark, as Shaq is nicknamed in China, has recently completed a tour of  Shaolin Temple in Henan - the birth place of Kung-Fu.

Shaq’s interests in kung-fu are well documented – he made a movie called Shaq Fu and it even spawned one of the worst video games of all time. Shaq is also known to practice martial arts in the offseason, and told Titan Sports that he would like …

Last week I mentioned Yao’s intentions of having a part-ownership role in the Shanghai Sharks, but as it turns out all the owners have agreed to sell their shares of the team, making Yao the sole owner of the Shanghai Sharks.
The deal supposedly will cost Yao ming just under 3 million dollars – which looks like a bargain if I’ve ever seen one. Shanghai is shaping up to be the most important city in Asia, and owning the city’s proffesional basketball team is surely an investment worthy of the 20 million …

I reported last week about the troubles faced by the Chinese Basketball Association and particularly teams such as the Shanghai Sharks who were close to bankrupcy. Li Qiuping, a member of Team Yao, has revealed Yao Ming’s interest in helping out his old team with an investment of around 20 million RMB (2.9million USD).

The current owners of the Shanghai Sharks, who finished this season 2nd from last, range from a media group to an airport to a sports institute. The team started having major problems when its lead sponsor, Xiyang …