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:

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 …

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

North Korea’s next leader to be, Kim Jong-il’s third son Kim Jong-un, is said to be a big fan of NBA basketball. Kim has never been photographed by Western Media and despite being Swiss educated he has for the most part avoided Western influences.

However much like his father, Kim Jong Un is said to enjoy popular culture and is apparently a fan of NBA basketball. Why is this important you might ask?

Sun Mingming is a 7 foot 9 basketball player currently playing in the Japanese basketball league. He’s a 26 year old Chinese player from Harbin, China and weighs around 360 pounds. His early career was not the easiest for this young player blessed with incredible height:
Sun Mingming came to the United States in early 2005 to train for a possible career in the NBA. He was declared eligible in the 2005 NBA Draft, and had a brief tryout with the Los Angeles Lakers, but was not selected in the draft.
In …