NBA Brings Its Game to Beijing
610001
The NBA has come to booming, basketball-crazy China &#151; but it doesn't expect to make any money soon. The league flew more than 100 people halfway around the world for its first games in China, featuring the Houston Rockets &#151; with Chinese-born star Yao Ming &#151; and the Sacramento Kings.
418474
As a child, Lin Ju lay in bed at his parents&#39; home in the Fujian province of China and dreamt of representing his country in the Olympic Games. Yesterday at the Galatsi Hall, the venue for the table tennis competition, that dream came true almost exactly ...
455779
The National Basketball Association has  hired the head of Microsoft&#39;s China operations to lead a new  push into a country that is already its largest market outside  the United States, the league said on Wednesday.
322588
SAITAMA, Japan  - The final three berths for the   men's basketball tournament at the 2008 Beijing Olympics will   be determined by a new event that will include 12 teams,   basketball's governing body FIBA said on Wednesday.
138158
Hometown fans of Chinese basketball star Yao Ming will see their hero in action for no more than 28 minutes when the NBA's first ever tip-off in China takes place this week.
426068
Blog: NBA increases its online presence.
672491
The Portland Trail Blazers and Seattle SuperSonics ushered in a changing of the guard in the NBA's Pacific Northwest while Milwaukee gambled on the promise of China's Yi Jianlian at the 2007 NBA Draft.
559987
Yao Ming is refreshed. After a demanding few days in his hometown for the first NBA game in China, the Houston Rockets center has had some time to unwind since arriving in Beijing.
10908
By Jonathan B. Cox, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Sep. 17--Wangfujing Street in central Beijing is a shortcut to the other side of the world.   Above the Mercedes-Benzes and Audis whizzing nearby, a billboard promotes Adidas.
188422
There will come a time when playing host to preseason basketball games will not set pulses racing in China, a time when the country is secure enough in its place as a world sports superpower that it will settle for nothing but the meaningful.
534338
Chinese star center Yao Ming is excited about making a homecoming with his National Basketball Association(NBA) teammates next week when he and the Houston Rockets play two exhibitions against Sacramento.
518848
The NBA's 28-year flirtation with China has become a serious commitment with the establishment of NBA China and the scheduling of exhibition games in the country.
443124
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.
537189
Friendship is one thing, competition quite another. That was apparent when reporters asked Juwan Howard and Liu Wei about playing against friends, Chris Webber and Yao Ming, in the China Games.
222677
Chinese forward Yi Jianlian of the Milwaukee Bucks was among four international newcomers chosen for the rookie team in next month's Rookie Challenge at the National Basketball Association All-Star Game.
588946
The NBA is considering playing some of its regular season games in China, commissioner David Stern said Friday.
560663
Bee Sports Columnist. BEIJING - The world probably gets smaller only a little bit at a time. When Peja Stojakovic watched Yao Ming moving gracefully through a sea of people here late Sunday