US NBA stars now look to Beijing - if they can get there
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It will be the Beijing Olympics before US National Basketball Association stars have another chance to reclaim global supremacy after losing Friday to Greece at the World Basketball Championship.
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As the widespread coverage of Yi  Jianlian&#39;s NBA move reaffirmed China&#39;s love affair with  basketball, a first-round pick from the 2004 NFL draft was in  Beijing on Friday to promote &quot;America&#39;s favorite sport.&quot;
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When Michael Jordan led the first  NBA-studded "Dream Team" into the Olympics in 1992, the hope  was that their dazzling displays of basketball would inspire  others to play better and bridge the gap with the Americans.
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How's this for a snapshot of globalization? Next season, about 100 of the NBA's 450 players &#151; nearly one in four &#151; will be from outside the United States.
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Chinese basketball player Yao Ming, an all-star member of the Houston Rockets, was granted a visa to visit Taiwan on a trip that will score a point for rival Beijing, which aspires to unify the two territories.
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SHANGHAI - Yao Ming&#39;s Houston Rockets squeezed past the Sacramento Kings on Thursday in the first National Basketball Association game to be played in China, a country the fast-growing basketball league deems a potential marketing mecca.
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Before flying to the United States to pursue his NBA dream in April, Yi Jianlian said he wanted to step out from the shadow of Yao Ming and carve out a career in the world's top league in his own way.
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The US men&#39;s basketball team is in the unfamiliar position of trying to look forward after backing into the quarter-finals of the Olympic basketball tournament.
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The US National Basketball Association is launching a new subsidiary in China, in a sign of the sport&#39;s increasing popularity there, the league announced Wednesday.
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Yao Ming&#39;s Houston Rockets squeezed past the Sacramento Kings on Thursday in the first NBA game to be played in China, a country the fast-growing basketball league deems a potential marketing mecca.
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Three teams in Europe and the United States are courting China&#39;s former NBA centre Wang Zhizhi, who has made a comeback in the Chinese leagues, state media reported Wednesday.
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BEIJING The NBA has reached booming, basketball-crazy China _ but the league doesn&#39;t expect to make any money soon. The NBA flew more than 100 people halfway around the world for its first games in China, featuring
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As the widespread coverage of Yi Jianlian's NBA move reaffirmed China's love affair with basketball, a first-round pick from the 2004 NFL draft was in Beijing on Friday to promote "America's favorite sport".
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LAS VEGAS -- There are two unmistakable plotlines as USA Basketball gets ready for next month's Olympic qualifier. One is, "We learned from last year." The other is the presence of Kobe Bryant. The two are not unrelated.
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When the NBA began sending its players to the Olympics in 1992, one of the league&#39;s goals was to spread basketball around the globe. Clearly, the idea worked.
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China&#39;s Yi Jianlian, taken by the  Milwaukee Bucks with the sixth selection in the NBA draft,  wants to be traded to another team, according to the player&#39;s  Chinese agent.
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With the establishment of a new enterprise in China, the NBA has set its sights on cashing in on the fan-crazed domestic league that has already produced stars such as Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian.