With his status for next season up in the air, Tracy McGrady’s legion of fans in China will get to watch their favorite player one more time in the CBA All-Star Game after the regular season ends this Sunday. McGrady, who became the first foreign player in league history to receive the most fan votes […]
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The definitive NiuBBall.com CBA preview
November 22, 2012
Moreso than ever, the Chinese Basketball Association has become quite difficult to predict pre-season. It’s hard to predict first of all because we generally stink at predictions, but more importantly that the league is as deep as its ever been top-to-bottom. There’s a more than a few reasons for that — more off-season player movement, […]
NiuBBall Water Cooler/Heater: End Of Season Review
April 9, 2012
NiuBBall水冷却器/加热器:在那里你可以chat with friends about hoops while sipping either hot or cold water. This chat originally appeared on Shark Fin Hoops. The end of the 2011-12 CBA season is here, which means its time to switch our NiuBBall coverage to other things. But before we do, our guy Andrew Crawford […]
Extended season – CBAers in the NBA
April 7, 2012
Lester Hudson is one of a growing number of players who have signed in the NBA after playing this season in China. (Photo: AP) With a 2012 CBA season that was filled with rabid fanaticism, deception, fighting girlfriends, redemption, and even a playoff upset officially in the books, most foreign imports have returned to their […]
Tuesday Afternoon Tanghulu
March 27, 2012
Sweetening up your afternoon with a stick of Beijing’s timeless sugar coated snack and some links… Shameless self-promotion in three, two, one… Check me, the blog and my quotes in Bryan Graham’s piece in Sports Illustrated about Stephon Marbury and his rise to folk-hero in Beijing. Some facts in this article are wrong (at the […]
CBA off-season carousel in full swing
March 14, 2012
As the the playoffs rage on come to a grinding halt (thanks, Shanxi), and as we’re back on the blogging trail, now seems as good a time as ever to update everyone on the coaching and front office changes that are going on around the league. Jim Cleamons not coming back to Guangsha; Wang Fei set […]
Marcus Williams Interview
March 10, 2012
Thanks to slicing drives like this, Marcus Williams has been putting lots of numbers and wins in his first season for Shanxi. (Photo: Osports) Sometimes, you don’t know what you have until it’s gone. After learning that lesson midway through last season, the Zhejiang Golden Bulls are having to re-learn it from the comfort of […]
2011-12 NiuBBall Awards
March 7, 2012
Stephon Marbury is understandably fired up upon being awarded as the 2011-12 NiuBBall CBA Most Valuable Player. (Photo: Osports) It’s a most wonderful time to be a basketball fan in China: While the NBA season continues post-All Star break and the NCAA’s big boys are starting up their conference tournaments, we China folk are three […]
NiuBBall Water Cooler/Heater: CBA Playoffs And More Wilson Chandler Shenanigans
March 1, 2012
NiuBBall水冷却器/加热器:在那里你可以chat with friends about hoops while sipping either hot or cold water. This chat originally appeared on Shark Fin Hoops before last night’s pair of Game 4s were played. After a brief break to take in the madness of the CBA postseason, Edward Bothfeld is back to survey the wreckage […]
Chandler’s FIBA LOC first gets denied, then gets granted
February 29, 2012
Two weeks after leaving Zhejiang Guangsha, Wilson Chandler’s road back to the NBA has finally been re-opened. Now the question is, has it been re-opened in time? Chandler’s early exit from China can be attributed to one thing: Money, and potentially lots of it. A restricted free-agent coming off of a career year last year […]
It’s here! The official 2012 NiuBBall CBA Playoff Extravaganza!
February 22, 2012
(Graphic via China Daily) We have a saying over at NiuBBall: There is no parity in the Chinese Basketball Association. Understand: Since the CBA went to a best-of-five format for the first round and semis in 2005, never has there been a do-or-die Game 5. Since the CBA went to a best-of-seven format for the […]
Guangsha, Xinjiang shake up their import Playoff rosters
February 22, 2012
广厦队允许威尔逊钱德勒回来后to the United States, the familiar Rodney White has been brought back to suit up for the team’s post-season run. Edward Bothfeld also contributed to this story. Zhejiang Guangsha, who played the entire regular season with Wilson Chandler, will now have to play the entire post-season without him […]
Bothfeld: Guangsha easily defeats a resting Beijing to clinch spot in playoffs
February 16, 2012
了一个令人失望的损失在Sund江苏ay and with playoff positioning on the line, Guangsha played with a heightened sense of urgency from the opening tip in their landslide 114-94 victory over Beijing on Wednesday. Wilson Chandler set the pace in the first quarter, scoring 25 points on an array of outside jumpers […]
You can buy tickets to the 2012 CBA All-Star Game, but you won’t see J.R. Smith
February 11, 2012
This is the last time you’ll see J.R. Smith in any All-Star gear — although fans voted into the CBA All-Star Game, J.R. Smith won’t be participating after the Zhejiang Chouzhou Golden Bulls were officially eliminated from the playoff race last night in Hangzhou. (Photo via NetEase) Last night in the Chinese Basketball Association, the […]
NiuBBall Water Cooler/Heater: Guangsha’s Woes, Looming NBA Paydays And The Best Basketball Jerseys In China
February 11, 2012
NiuBBall水冷却器/加热器:在那里你可以chat with friends about hoops while sipping either hot or cold water. This chat originally appeared on Shark Fin Hoops shortly before last night’s games were played. Fresh from penning a cracking article about Wilson Chandler for NiuBBall, Edward Bothfeld swings by to talk playoff runs, how to stay true […]
February 16, 2013
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