NBA spending millions to tap Chinese market: commissioner
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The US National Basketball Association (NBA) has spent &quot;several millions&quot; of dollars staging its first ever exhibition games in China as it bids to tap the rapidly expanding market, its commissioner said.
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By tito talao. Chalk one up for the Philippine Basketball Association and Commissioner Noli Eala over the National Basketball Association and its Commissioner David Stern.
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National Basketball Association Commissioner David Stern, in a story in the New York Times, admits the league made mistakes in introducing a new ball that has proved unpopular with players.
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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.
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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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The NBA has come to booming, basketball-crazy China &#151; but it doesn't expect to make any money soon.
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Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. said ChinaÂs currency exchange rate is being viewed as a symbol of unfair competition.
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Major League Baseball officials have taken steps to contact federal investigators involved in a crackdown on the import of Chinese steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs to determine whether baseball players are entangled in the probe, an MLB spokesman said yesterday.
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Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who has been slapped with more than $1 million in fines by the NBA since buying the club in 2000, said he will create a hedge fund that will seek to make money the Las Vegas way: gambling.
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Yi Jianlian, the 7-foot power forward from China who was selected by the Milwaukee Buck in the N.B.A. draft, will âdefinitely notâ join the Bucks, according to a report in Tuesdayâs Beijing News.
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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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David Stern, the N.B.A. commissioner, is expected to hold a news conference this week to discuss the leagueâs involvement in the F.B.I.âs gambling investigation of the referee Tim Donaghy.
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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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XIANGHE, China  - China will push its banks to forge deeper into overseas markets for acquisitions and a global profile, a top bank regulator said on Sunday.
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The NBA flew more than 100 people halfway around the world for its first games in China this week. Chinese-born star Yao Ming was there with the Houston Rockets for games against the Sacramento Kings.
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NBA China, a new company that will conduct all National Basketball Association business in the world's most populous nation, was unveiled Monday with major US and Chinese corporate support.
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The NBA is considering playing some of its regular season games in China, commissioner David Stern said Friday. The Sacramento Kings and Houston Rockets, team of Chinese national Yao Ming