NBA All-Stars 2011

Kobe Bryant NBA All-Star Jersey

The NBA recently released a list of the starters for the 2011 NBA All-Star Game. Here are the vote totals for both the Eastern and Western Conference players. It’s no surprise that Yao Ming had the highest number of votes among Western Conference centers. Basketball in China is a huge business and much of the [...]

Dirk Nowitzki and Company Roll Over the Rockets

Dirk Nowitzki MVP

The NBA’s MVP through the first 17 games, Dirk Nowitzki, led the Dallas Mavericks to an easy victory over the Houston Rockets 101-91.  Nowitzki sat for the last six minutes of the game and finished with 20 points and 10 rebounds.  The Mavs continue their winning streak at six games and have played four games [...]

Yao Ming is Back

Yao-Ming-Rockets

Here is a video of Yao Ming working out with Houston Rockets recently. Yao is back! This is Yao’s workout at Toyota Center against Chuck Hayes and James Cripe (NBA D-Leaguer). It looked pretty intense, which we all like to see. Yesterday, Dr. Tom Clanton — who operated on Yao’s foot last year — revealed [...]

Carmelo Anthony to the Houston Rockets

Carmelo Anthony

Carmelo Anthony, the Denver Nuggets Forward, is open to long-term deals with the Houston Rockets and Nets if either team can work out a trade with the Nuggets. I say Melo should go to Houston and play with Aaron Brooks, Yao Ming, Luis Scola, Kyle Lowry, Brad Miller, Shane Battier and Kevin Martin. Anthony’s contract [...]

NBA China Basketball Market Research

NBA Players

BEIJING – The NBA is America’s leading sports export to China, and it’s about to begin an unprecedented expansion in the world’s fastest growing major economy. The lure of a country with 1.3 billion people, where 300 million play basketball – that’s the entire population of the United States – is too lucrative to resist.  [...]