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

As promised, below are a couple of videos that you can watch from the NBA reality show in China called “Mengniu Basketball Disciple”.
While the level of play is quite low (around US Varsity level), the show is well edited/produced and they manage to fit in quite abit into the 45 minute time allocated per show. Some background is given on the players, they talk about their favorite NBA players, they do drills, get evaluated by the American coaches, participate in contests and games, and in the end players are voted …

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.
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News has broken out that JianHua  Huang and several of his partners are interesting in becoming minority stakeholders of the Cleveland Cavaliers.
JianHua has been known to link American and Chinese business to create greater synergies, and with the expansion of the NBA in China and the formation of the NBA China entity this is a move that is both supported by the NBA and a business development that has great opportunity.
Source: http://www.cleveland.com/cavs/index.ssf/2009/05/sources_chinese_investors_clos.html#more