Posted by FIBA News on 28 Nov 2010 at 1:20 pm under Asia, China, Korea
China won the gold medal in Men’s Basketball at the 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou, China on November 26, beating Korea 77-71 in the final. (Discuss the 16th Asia Games in our Asian Basketball Forum) The Men’s Final was a successful ending of the basketball events at the Asian Games. All basketball games were sold [...]
Tianjin, China – The 2009 Asiabasket All-Tournament team was named yesterday amidst a little controversy over one of the selections. (edit: this was an unofficial selection from sports.cn – we apologize for the inconvenience) The team was led by Asia Championships MVP Hamed Haddadi of Iran, followed by Chinese veteran Wang Zhizhi, do-it-all Iranian swingman Samad [...]
Iran successfully defended their Asia Champions crown last night, dropping favored-China in a laughable 70-52 win. Led by Memphis Grizzly center Hamed Haddadi‘s 19 points and 17 rebounds, Iran dominated the Chinese in the first two quarters; outscoring their opponents by 11 in the first quarter and by six in the second. The Iranians took [...]
Posted by editor on 12 Aug 2009 at 3:07 pm under Japan, NBA
The New York Times has a story about Wataru “Wat” Misaka’s first trip back to Madison Square Garden since the he played three games for the New York Knicks in 1947. Misaka is the first non-white and first Asian NBA player (the NBA was known as the Basketball Association of America at the time). From the New York Times: (Misaka) is [...]
Posted by Stuart Leung on 12 Aug 2009 at 9:06 am under Uncategorized
Yi Jianlian and Hamed Haddadi came up big for their respective national teams last night, propelling each squad to an unblemished 5-0 record in the 2009 Asia Basketaball Championships. With the two NBA big men leading their teams over Jordan and Korea, China and Iran are now the remaining teams without a loss. China to [...]
Title: Asia Championships of Basketball Location: Tianjin, China Official Website: http://china2009.fiba.com/ Description: The 2009 FIBA Asia Championships of basketball (discuss) will be held in Tianjin, China from August 6-16, 2009 with 16 teams divided into four groups. The sixteen teams competing for the gold and a spot in the 2010 World Championships are hosts China, [...]
Posted by admin on 10 Aug 2008 at 3:37 pm under Angola, Argentina, Australia, China, Croatia, Germany, Greece, Iran, Lithuania, Olympics, Spain, Uncategorized, USA
Day one of Olympic Basketball has finished with Russia, Germany, Spain, Lithuania, Croatia, and the USA getting their first wins. Russia 71 : Iran 49 (Russia-Iran Boxscore) Despite the 71-49 score, Russia didn’t have quite as easy a win as expected, though a late run in the game made for the final margin against feisty [...]
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