Han Xu understandably grew up idolizing Yao Ming, mesmerized by the giant shadow the 7-foot-6 Hall of Famer cast each time he ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TAIPAN, China — It’s game day in this remote village in southwestern China, and the atmosphere is electric. Before thousands of ...

J. Cole is lacing up his sneakers again. The 41-year-old rapper, born Jermaine Cole in Fayetteville, North Carolina, has officially signed with the Nanjing Monkey Kings of the Chinese Basketball ...

China booked its place in the second round of the 2027 FIBA Basketball World Cup Asian qualifiers with a commanding 92-74 ...

VCG. Yang Shuyu, China's women's national basketball team captain, has joined the Sydney Flames for the 2026-27 Women's ...

The Chinese Basketball Association, often abbreviated as CBA, is the first-tier professional men's basketball league in China ...

HONG KONG — In China, she’s being called the “female Yao Ming.” In a video that quickly went viral this week, Zhang Ziyu, a 7-foot-3 basketball player from Shandong province, towers over her ...

NBA star Kyrie Irving walked out onto a basketball court in southwest China to rapturous applause, his brightly colored ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The former NBA player attended the opening ceremony of the second session of the 14th National People's Congress of China - Wu Hao ...

Most people think that quality basketball starts and ends with the NBA. However, that's not exactly the case, as we have witnessed teams put on a show in FIBA tournaments and the Olympics in the past.

BEIJINGBEIJING — Former Houston Rockets star Yao Ming has stepped down as head of China’s struggling national basketball league. An eight-time NBA All-Star, Yao had been leading efforts to ...

The return of China’s top basketball league to its normal season format following years of Covid disruptions has been marred in controversy after an abrupt no-show from one of its former ...