Now with the NBA lockout tentatively resolved, training camp and free agency are just around the corner, scheduled to begin on December 9th. Which means the likes of Wilson Chandler, J.R. Smith, Kenyon Martin and Aaron Brooks are probably wracking their brains for ways out of their contracts harder than Kim Basinger after she signed up to do Boxing Helena. more ›

Alas, perhaps sweet, sweet dunkage wasn't meant to be. During his first game of the new CBA season against the Guangdong Southern Tigers in Dongguan, J.R. Smith of the Zhejiang Golden Bulls (and formerly of the Denver Nuggets), is now out of action indefinitely with an injured right knee. more ›

Towards the end of a closely fought exhibition game, the CBA's Foshan Dralions got into a bench-clearing brawl last night with Australia's Melbourne Tigers, after a player from the Aussie team (in maroon) gave a tentative love-tap to a Foshan player (in white). more ›

@Eayon-梁奕聪: Your little sister's NBA labor talks broke down, with an official announcement of the regular season shutting down (crying emoticon). How are people going to live? (angry emoticon). more ›

Watch out, China! Current Denver Nuggets free agent J.R. Smith has just signed a contract to play the upcoming season with the Chinese Basketball Association's Zhejiang Golden Bulls (浙江稠州银行) of Yiwu. more ›

Guess who was in town today? Yao Ming, according to CNN Go. The 2.26 meter son of Shanghai was here to prepare for his much-publicized charity tour with the Yao Ming Foundation and also to check up on his team, the Shanghai Sharks before the upcoming Chinese Basketball Association. Best Yao quote from his trip here: "I can change my daughter's diaper with just my toe, can you believe that? When baby cries at night, I just kick my wife and everything is miraculously done." more ›

In case you haven't heard, Stephon Marbury is heading to Shanxi to play Basketball. Marbury (or Starbury, if you remember his glory days as a two-time all star, or own a pair of his signature shoes) will be playing in the CBA with the Shanxi Zhongyu Brave Dragons in the lovely capital city of Taiyuan. We're excited, as we really missed watching him mope on the bench back in New York, though we imagine he'll be a bit more active than his glory days of watching basketball with Spike Lee. more ›

We guess even if Yao Ming's foot takes him away from playing the game, it doesn't mean he's out of basketball. The superstar athlete is becoming the new boss of his former team, the Shanghai Sharks. In what China Daily calls the highest profile deal in Chinese Basketball Association history, Yao Ming signed an agreement with all three of Shanghai Shark's current shareholders to buy their stakes. The 2.26m center said he is willing to “pay back his home team and Shanghai where he started his basketball career” and will “help Shanghai return to glory.” The last CBA championship the Sharks won was in the 2001-02 season with the help of Yao. Since he's left, the team's fallen into dire straits, placing second last most recently. more ›