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when basketball started
basket ball started in 1891, it was invented by a man namned james naismith in springfeild massachusetts -
when basket ball was introduced
basket ball started in 1902 the first professtional player was namnned wang zhizi, the traditional chinese basket ball never keept individual statistics, they just played for honour of china, this was at least 100 years before Yao Ming was drafted -
chinese basketball is founded
chinese was founded in 1995, it was introduced in 1930s so it took around 65 years to become offical -
Yao Ming was drafted
Yao ming was the first non usa born NBA player, he was drafted in 2002 -
lebron starts tour to china for sports growth
on the 21st of july lebron james took a tour to china to help with the sports growth -
300 million people play basket ball in china
to this very day there are more people playing chinese basket then the entire USA population
