http://www.nbainchina.com Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:44:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.nbainchina.com/stephon-marbury-vs-cba-leaders-guangdong-southern-tigers/ 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 ... http://www.nbainchina.com/marburys-first-game-in-china/ On my NBA Basketball blog, I shared my view on the Gilbert Arenas situation and how the media had destroyed him to a point where it's unsure whether he will play another minute in the NBA. Then I remembered the post I had written right here about how Gilbert Arenas ... http://www.nbainchina.com/gilbert-arenas-china/ Stephon Marbury, once considered one of the top point guards to ever grace the hardwood floor, has agreed to play this season in the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) for the Shanxi Zhongyu. Shanxi Zhongyu announced the news on their website today, and are hoping that Starbury will be able ... http://www.nbainchina.com/stephon-marbury-to-play-in-china-cba/ 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 ... http://www.nbainchina.com/yao-mings-wife-pregnant-little-yao-to-arrive-in-july/ 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 ... http://www.nbainchina.com/cleveland-china-lebron/ 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 ... http://www.nbainchina.com/american-basketball-associations-aba-global-expansion/ 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 ... http://www.nbainchina.com/mercedes-benz-wins-new-shanghai-stadium-naming-rights/ It hasn't been the best year for Yi Jianlian. First, his China team lost embarassingly to Iran on home soil in the FIBA Asian Championships, then he got injured after only 4 games into the 2009-2010 season, and just recently his New Jersey Nets officially got off to the worst ... http://www.nbainchina.com/yi-jianlian-needs-50-stiches/ The NBA and the CBA have been working together in recent years trying to develop the Chinese basketball level and bring it to new heights. That partnership took another major step in October when the NBA and CBA announced a comprehensive multi-year collaboration to foster coaching development in China. One part ... http://www.nbainchina.com/basketball-in-china-not-nba-ready/