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Invention of basketball
James Naismith was the Canadian physical education (PE) instructor who invented basketball in 1891. James Naismith, under the direction of American physical education specialist Luther Halsey Gulick, invented the indoor sport of basketball -
Chinese basketball league started
The CBA is a state owned league that founded in 1995 and currently consists of 17 teams.
The teams are
The Beijing Ducks, the Zhejiang Lions, the Guangdong Sothern Tigers, the Xinjiang Flying Tigers, Shanghai Sharks, the Qingdao Double Stars, the Bayi Rockets, the Liaoning Flying Leopards, the Jiangsu Dragons, the Dongguan Leopards, the Jilin Northeast Tigers, the Shangdong Lions, the Tianjin Ronggang, the Zhejiang Golden Bulls, the Foshan Dralions, the Shanxi Zhongyu and the Fujian Sturgeons. -
Basketball introduced into china
Some of the first groups that embraced basketball in China were college students, western-minded scholars, and, most importantly, members of the Communist party, who loved the sport for its cohesive power. During the Long March (the Red Army's storied year-long retreat in the 1930s to evade the Nationalist army), Communist soldiers and officers played basketball to lift their spirits and boost solidarity. The party continued to support the sport after it took power in 1949. -
Yao Ming drafted by Houston rockets
Yao Ming was pressured to enter the NBA draft in 1999 by Li Yaomin, the deputy general manager of the Shanghai Sharks. Li also influenced Yao to Sign a contract for Evergreen Sports INC. -
LeBron James visits China
NBA basketball star LeBron James catches a basketball during a Nike-sponsored event in Beijing, China, Monday, July 21, 2014. Four years after he left for Miami, a widely criticized departure that damaged his image and crushed a long-suffering city's championship hopes, James is going back to play for the Cleveland Cavaliers to try and end Cleveland's half-century title drought. -
300 Million Chinese play Basketball
There are 300 million people that play basketball in China, a statistic provided by the Chinese Basketball Association, which is around the population of the United States.