In the Arena: NBA courts China&#39;s fans
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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.
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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 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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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.
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The NBA is considering playing some of  its regular season games in China, commissioner David Stern  said Friday.
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Not even a line clocked in days deterred the residents of Shanghai from waiting to see Yao Ming, the marquee attraction in this week&#39;s National Basketball Association exhibition games in China.
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When Yao Ming's Houston Rockets edged the Sacramento Kings in the first ever NBA game played in China, the towering star center only wanted to run and hide from his adoring hometown fans.
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It didn't quite rival the weekend brawl at an NBA game in Detroit, but a shoving match broke out here Saturday as Chinese and American journalists jostled for position to hear statements from leaders of the two nations.
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China'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's Chinese agent.
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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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InfoWorld - Chinese sport fans have embraced an online lottery for tickets to the&#160;2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
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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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Built in the days of Mao Zedong's 1966-76 Cultural Revolution, Shanghai's rundown city gymnasium is getting the full NBA treatment for next month's exhibition game between the Sacramento Kings and the Houston Rockets.
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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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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
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The crowd chanted Yao Ming&#39;s name all game, soaking up the novelty of the NBA in another tribute to a player who is fast becoming a one-man basketball marketing force in China.
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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.