This week’s global roundup covers player performances during the last week. This post includes discussion about Yao Ming‘s extra tall baby, Pops keeps getting waived, the first Korean player in the NCAA, Fadi El Khatib on the move, Phil Jackson’s fact-checking, and the Turkish All-Star Game. CHINA: Yao Ming and his with wife Ye Li, [...]

The desire for Yao Ming to play in the 2010 World Championships is there, now all it takes is the authorization. This is according to a representative for Yao Ming, Zhang Mingji, who recently revealed the wish of the Houston Rockets centre to play for the Chinese national team. (Discuss Chinese Basketball in our forum) [...]

So what’s Yao Ming doing besides resting and rehabilitating for the next NBA season? He’s now on Twitter, that’s right, Yao Ming, 7-6 NBA all-star center from China is now Twittering from the Rockets’ bench, when he’s driving his massive SUV, and the comfort of his own toilet. And as of this writing, Yao has [...]

During the 2008-09 NBA season, a rejuvenated Shaquille O’Neal moved up five spots on the NBA’s all-time scorers’ list. After scoring 1333 points, his highest total in four seasons, O’Neal is now #5 on the all-time list having surpassed Dominique Wilkins, Moses Malone, Elvin Hayes, Oscar Robertson, and international player Hakeem Olajuwon. What of International [...]

Though healing well and showing good progress, Yao Ming said there is no chance of him making a comeback during the 2009-2010 season. “You don’t want to rush it, because they want it to totally heal this time,” Yao said, “I have been in this situation enough.” “The (X-ray) picture looks good. The bones heal [...]

The Toronto Raptors are hemorraging international players this offseason, while the Houston Rockets are stockpiling them to fill in for injured Chinese center Yao Ming. Today, the Houston Rockets reached a verbal agreement with the 6-10 Pops Mensah-Bonsu, the energetic British center that played for the Raptors last season. The deal is a one-year deal and [...]

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 [...]