Jeremy Lin gets the NMA treatment after the Knicks' guard became an overnight sensation over the past week. Lin scored 23 points (including a dunk) while notching another career-high ten assists in a 107-93 Knicks' win against the Wizards in Washington D.C. The only thing that could make this story better is if Whoopi Goldberg took over as coach. more ›

The basketball-loving city of New York is currently in a mild tizzy over the revelatory play of Jeremy Lin, after Lin shot 58.8% from the field to score 28 points and dish out 8 assists (both career-highs) against the Utah Jazz in a 99-88 win. more ›

On Saturday night at Madison Square Garden, the New York Knicks' Jeremy Lin (林書豪) officially went and got himself a hefty piece in a 99-92 win against the New Jersey Nets. Having been firmly planted on the bench all season (and all career, for that matter), Lin stepped up and gave an electric performance in front of the Knicks faithful at the Mecca of Basketball, scoring a career-high 25 points (with 12 coming in the 4th quarter) while dishing 7 assists and nabbing 5 rebounds. more ›

J.R. Smith of the Zhejiang Golden Bulls and Wilson Chandler of the Zhejiang Guangsha Lions are reportedly looking for ways to escape the one-year deals they signed with their Chinese teams. more ›

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 ›

Hip hop and basketball, two items firmly linked in American culture, made a resounding splash at Hip Hop Hijack's 1 year Anniversary party at Zeal this past Friday. more ›

Well, ever so briefly in Beijing, anyway. Regardless, this slick little piece of corporate advertising made our pre-Halloween Party afternoon. 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 ›

Former Houston Rockets center Yao Ming will study in the prestigious Shanghai Jiaotong University from October, his agent Zhang Mingji said here on Monday. Zhang said that Yao has not decided his major but the university will choose special teachers and give the super star lessons on a one-to-one basis.

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 ›

A chocolate bobble-head sized figurine of 2008 NBA Finals MVP Paul Pierce of the Boston Celtics encased within a Wujing (武警) baijiu presentation box? We'll take it! Oh, it's not for sale, you say? Well, a picture will just have to do. Along with Michael Beasley of the Minnesota Timberwolves, Pierce recently concluded a two-city tour of China that saw him play as part of the Kentucky Bisons of the American Basketball Association (a semi-pro league) against the Beijing Ducks and Australia's Cairns Taipans in Beijing and Shuangyashan (双鸭山), Heilongjiang, respectively. more ›

The Chinese Basketball Association formally decided to drop the ban-hammer on the possibility of Kobe, Dwight Howard and a slew of other locked-out NBA players playing in China during the upcoming CBA season beginning in November. The CBA concluded after meeting in Shenzhen that only free agents currently not under contract with any NBA team can participate in the upcoming season. more ›

There really isn't much of a story here, but this twitpic of the New York Knicks' Carmelo Anthony doing his best punk-ass tourist sneer with his panda homey is definitely worth your attention (though Shaq seems to have already claimed the same panda-throne two years ago!). Anthony, along with his potential future teammate Chris Paul of the New Orleans Hornets, is currently in Chengdu as part of the annual pilgrimage of NBA stars to the succulent milkable cow that is the Chinese market Jordan Brand Flight Tour, a four-city brand promotion do that includes store appearances and training camps for the Jordan shoe imprint owned by Nike. more ›

Make sure to tune in for the resolution and closure ceremony for Yao Ming's NBA career at 2pm today on CCTV-5. The press conference is being held at an undisclosed hotel in Pudong, with 300 reporters in attendance for the event. The program has the potential to be one of those work-stopping-gather-round-the-television moments that justifies having a TV in the first place. more ›

With the recent NBA lockout still happening, there have been some pretty loud noises from key players across the league about playing overseas if the lockout persists. This time it’s not Europe they are talking about, but China. more ›

If there's ever a need for a Chinese neologism to express a frustrating state of affairs that doesn't meet expectations, we'd put forth Yao Ming's Left Foot (姚明左脚, as in '这个聚会太姚明左脚了') as our suggestion. The foot, who's status and health hundreds of millions of Chinese basketball devotees had clung to for years, will no longer be taking the shocks and pivots of a 7 foot 6 and 310 pound (141kg and 229cm) frame: Yao is reportedly retiring. The weight of an entire nation won't burden his metatarsals and phalanges anymore. more ›

Chinese shoe company Peak (匹克) must be very, very happy. It is the second year in a row that a NBA champion is wearing their shoes. Last year it was Ron Artest (whose trouble with his feet some blamed on Peak shoes) and Sasha Vujacic of the Los Angeles Lakers, this year it is veteran point-guard Jason Kidd of the NBA Championship-winning Dallas Mavericks. more ›

After that huge debate over the citizenship of NBA star Yao Ming's daughter, we've finally got some shots of the little un whose birth was a matter of national interest. These photos here show Yao's 7 month old Amy being carried by grandma while wife Ye Li looks on. The whole family had come to watch the Houston Rockets v. Toronto Raptors game. more ›

The Melbourne Demons captured the first ever Kaspersky Cup - AFL Shanghai Showdown on Sunday against the Brisbane Lions in thrilling fashion after rallying from a 31-point deficit to win in the waning seconds 84-79 at Jiangwan Stadium in Yangpu District. more ›

Li Ning, the Chinese sportswear company named after (and founded by) the famous Chinese Olympic athlete, was recently featured in a Beijing Review article about the steps it's taken to open up a market in the U.S. According to the piece, Li Ning is using "exotic oriental elements" to attract buyers and entice trendsetters. How interesting! Maybe that explains Baron Davis using his NBA moves to baffle locals last summer. 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 ›

Maggie Rauch is editor of China Sports Today, a blog about China's emerging sports scene, and an occasional contributor to Shanghaiist. Today she talks about the top ten sports stories to hit China in 2009—wins, losses and scandals aplenty. more ›

And he got the characters right. 冠軍 means "champion" (he's using traditional characters). The other side says "Chatty." According to Artest's Twitter page, Chatty is the name of a friend who passed away. On Twitter, Artest also says he flew in Boogie the barber from Orlando for the cut and paid him a hotel room plus $20. Artest and the Lakers begin their quest to prove the left side of his head correct at 10:30 am Shanghai time against, fittingly, the Clippers. Source: Ball Don't Lie more ›

Yi Jianlian is so excited about not being forced to play in the Chinese National Games that the guy’s actually playing some good basketball. He scored 21 points and grabbed 11 boards in an exhibition game against the New York Knicks last Friday. In the Nets’ two previous games, against the Boston Celtics, Yi went for 20 and 8 in the first, but just 2 and 4 in the second. more ›

The NBA is touching down in China this weekend, with the Indiana Pacers and Denver Nuggets playing a preseason game in Beijing. Ahead of the game, the league issued a press release that it decided to call "Bryant's jersey remains top seller in China." more ›

Here's a change: the biggest NBA news in China right now isn't about Yao Ming or Kobe, but rather their 7-foot-1 compatriot, Shaq. The Cleveland Cavs center arrived in China on Monday on a promotional tour, but made an unplanned stop at the Shaolin Temple in Henan Province, claiming, "I always wanted to know if Shaolin kung fu was real or not. Now, at last I know - the Chinese kung fu I saw on television, it was all real." more ›

Forget about snapping up cheap U.S. real estate--Kenneth Huang and his cash-rich Chinese partners are about to make history and change the game for the Cleveland Cavaliers by purchasing a stake in the NBA franchise. more ›

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 ›

• After 15 years, China Soccer Ceases Publishing [China Sports Review] "To adapt a new economic climate, we are to restructure our product. During the restructuring, China Soccer will temporarily cease publishing from March 10. Thank you, our readers, for your support all these years and being along with us."
• NBA May Benefit as China Boosts Sports Arena Plans [Bloomberg] "China’s 4 trillion yuan ($585 billion) of extra spending, announced in November, includes boosts for cultural and sports- related infrastructure. That’s prompting local governments to sound out the NBA about managing future stadiums, said Tim Chen, NBA China’s chief executive officer."
• China to Overcome Global Recession First, Rogers Says [Bloomberg] "China’s reserves allow the government to spend on projects that will make the nation more efficient and competitive as the global economy recovers, said Rogers, the author of 'A Bull in China: Investing Profitably in the World’s Greatest Market.' Signs China is taking steps to liberalize its currency will also benefit the country, he added."