NBA Commissioner David Stern is interviewed in a video from NBC Sports entitled "China's passion for basketball." Stern appears to have adopted his own passion for another Chinese invention: the comb-over. more ›

While we were wondering why neither ESPN Asia nor Star Sports on our satellite system was showing the Dallas Mavericks-Golden State Warriors game this morning, we noticed a clip on ESPN video that talked about NBA commissioner David Stern expressing interest in setting up a joint venture hoops league in China. We stopped going to Shanghai Sharks games a few years ago because the team didn't seem to care too much about its fans, so we think this has to be good news: more ›

Shanghaiist was going to post on news relating to the two million people in southwestern China without drinking water or Orville Schell’s review of John Pomfret’s new book, which asks ponderous questions relating to the ”basic blockage at the moral heart of China’s spectacular rise”. But we thought we’d concentrate on something different and more important today -- the possibility, remote yes, but a possibility nonetheless -- that the NBA could host regular season games in China. NBA Commissioner David Stern was in Guangzhou on Sunday and let everyone know how important the China market is to the NBA; and while he's no doubt right about that, we wonder how, logistically, they are going to have regular season games in China. Will it be the first games of the season? Or the last few games? more ›