China may host regular season NBA games
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America&#39;s National Basketball Association (NBA) commissioner David Stern says Beijing will be capable of hosting regular season NBA games before the 2008 Summer Olympics.
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In a move certain to highlight the growing importance of China to both the National Basketball Association and the sport, the N.B.A. plans to announce Wednesday the formation of a Chinese subsidiary.
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The NBA is to go outdoors with a pre-season game played at the Tennis Garden in Indian Wells, California.
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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.
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Major League Baseball chief operating officer Bob DuPuy said yesterday in Beijing there is "an excellent chance" MLB will stage games in China next spring. But even though Red Sox CEO Larry Lucchino is among a group of officials looking at the facilities that will be used at the Olympics next year, chairman Tom Werner said the club has reservations ...
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At the apex of the rampant Chinese interest in the NBA are stars Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian, whose teams face off on Saturday. That's why a televised game between the Bucks and Rockets is expected to be seen by more fans in China than Sunday's Super Bowl.
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With the NBA set to play its first ever game in China today, commissioner David Stern has hinted regular season games could be held in the country.
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The Boston Celtics will be one of four National Basketball Association teams who will play exhibition games in four European countries next October, commissioner David Stern announced.
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National Basketball Association commissioner David Stern welcomed an NBA players&#39; protest of Beijing hosting the Olympics because of China&#39;s role in the conflict in Darfur.
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The NBA will embark on its biggest promotional event in China when it rolls out a &quot;two-on-two&quot; competition in 112 cities involving up to 35,000 players, league officials said here Wednesday.
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Chinese fans packed out Beijing&#39;s 17,903-seat Capital Stadium for the capital&#39;s first taste of live NBA action Sunday night.
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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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Houston Rockets&#39; Yao Ming answers a question from journalists during a press conference for the NBA China 2004 game Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2004 in Shanghai, China.
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A day before starring in the NBA&#39;s first China game, Yao Ming went back to school. All the way back. The 7-foot-6 center visited his old elementary school Wednesday as part of an NBA sponsored program to promote reading.
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SOTOGRANDE, Spain -- The European Tour will feature three, and possibly four, tournaments in China next season. The new schedule, released Thursday at the Volvo Masters, begins Nov. 25-28 with the China Open in Shanghai.
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With the next Summer Games set for Beijing, China will have a chance to defend its women's volleyball gold medal without leaving home.
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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.