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Chinese CBA 2011-12 season

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http://insider.espn.go.com/insider/blog/_/name/player_x
Certain NBA star "Player X" (believed to be Jason Terry) wants to play in China in case there is a lockout.
China will be NBA-lite. Each Chinese squad will have at least two former stars on it. Their ball is good, their contracts are generous, their people are friendly -- and a lot of them want to buy our shoes.

At least, one of his teammates seems to have similar intentions.
http://www.derwesten.de/sport/Dirk-Nowitzki-liebaeugelt-mit-China-id4265635.html
Was planen Sie, falls die NBA-Saison ausfällt? (If there is an NBA lockout what are your plans?)

Nowitzki: Vielleicht gehe ich nach China und spiele dort. (Perhaps I'll go to China and play there.)

Can you imagine if these players play in CBA? Ahh, my mental masturbation of the day.
 
Isn't it too early for a thread? :p

Well, so far there have been rumours of Dirk going to Germany is the lockout happens. Alba Berlin and Bayern München have shown interest in him and I believe a project like Bayern would be appealing to any player. Anyway, the CAB has been growing over the years and I wouldn't be surprised if players like Dirk or Terry would make it there.
 
Rumor has it that Peter John-Ramos is targeted by a number of CBA Teams since news broke out that Ramos is very interested in returning to play in the CBA; since the NBA has cancelled its NBA Summer League in Vegas. Ramos was supposed to attend tryouts for the NBA summer league teams.
 
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-Jean Abdel Nour (199-SF)(LEB) Riyadi Beirut Team Captain and Lebanese NT Player, Received a Huge Contract From CBA teams ,and maybe not playing As Asian Import but also as An Import with any Team

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-Rony Fahed (184-PG)(LEB) Sagesse Team Player And Lebanese National Team Player Also Received Contracts from CBA !!

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-Jean Abdel Nour (199-SF)(LEB) Riyadi Beirut Team Captain and Lebanese NT Player, Received a Huge Contract From CBA teams ,and maybe not playing As Asian Import but also as An Import with any Team

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-Rony Fahed (184-PG)(LEB) Sagesse Team Player And Lebanese National Team Player Also Received Contracts from CBA !!

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Jean won't go to china this year because according to him CBA teams won't pay his release (around 100k) to riyadi

Rony is very close to sign in the CBA he has offers from 4 CBA teams
 
Zhejiang Lions signs Taiwanese Wu Tai-Hao to a two year contract. According to sources from Xinhua, Wu will receive a salary of 1.5 million Yuan.
 
Rumors:
Zaid Abbas is closed to sign with Fujian Sturgeons;
Zhejiang Lions signs Taiwanese center Wu Tai-Hao ;
Zhejiang Lions's coach Wang Fei is decided to retire from the team which he has served for 4 years due to physical problems;
Zhejiang Lions is intend to hire Jim Cleamons as team's new coach;
National team coach Bob Donewald is said to be the new coach of Xinjiang Flying Tigers
 
Akognon

Akognon

Will Josh Akognon re-sign with the DongGuan Leopards? Comments from yaomingmania forums said that other CBA teams are also interested.
 
New Season 2011 12

New Season 2011 12

When will the new season 2011-12 starts this year?
 
Nobody knows

Nobody knows

how many teams are participating?
Don't know. Last 2 seasons there were 17; the season before that 18, and 16 before that. There are talks that the worst CBA finishers last season will play with the best NBL (2nd division) teams after the NBL ends next month to decide "something". Maybe it won't happen.
tmlouk said:
When will the new season 2011-12 starts this year?
Don't know. Last 2 seasons started in mid-December, and it was mid-November before that. Maybe the delay for the last 2 seasons was due to NT games (East Asian Games '09 and Asian Games '10). Maybe not.

We don't even know what the import rules are at this point. Maybe there will be an import draft. Maybe there will be no import allowed at all. The only thing we know about the upcoming CBA season, like every year in July, is we don't know anything. Maybe there will be some rules by September. Bureaucrats like to take it slow.

As there are no trades in CBA, the only activities in the summer are the signing of

1) domestic players, which are not interesting because they need to be released by their clubs to be signed, and no team is going to release players that can contribute or players with potential.
2) players from Taiwan/HK. This is much is certain, the Chinese bureaucrats, despite their capricious ideas and behaviors, will never refuse to recognize players from Taiwan as "local" players. As government officials, they can't commit that political incorrectness :D
3) coaches. No matter how rules change you will need a coach.
 
Don't know. Last 2 seasons there were 17; the season before that 18, and 16 before that. There are talks that the worst CBA finishers last season will play with the best NBL (2nd division) teams after the NBL ends next month to decide "something". Maybe it won't happen. Don't know. Last 2 seasons started in mid-December, and it was mid-November before that. Maybe the delay for the last 2 seasons was due to NT games (East Asian Games '09 and Asian Games '10). Maybe not.

We don't even know what the import rules are at this point. Maybe there will be an import draft. Maybe there will be no import allowed at all. The only thing we know about the upcoming CBA season, like every year in July, is we don't know anything. Maybe there will be some rules by September. Bureaucrats like to take it slow.

As there are no trades in CBA, the only activities in the summer are the signing of

1) domestic players, which are not interesting because they need to be released by their clubs to be signed, and no team is going to release players that can contribute or players with potential.
2) players from Taiwan/HK. This is much is certain, the Chinese bureaucrats, despite their capricious ideas and behaviors, will never refuse to recognize players from Taiwan as "local" players. As government officials, they can't commit that political incorrectness :D
3) coaches. No matter how rules change you will need a coach.

Sino, in terms of vagueness, that's almost as bad as the NBA lockout :D
 
Hahaha, speculations in Chinese message boards can make it all the way as "news" in American newspapers. For the record, Zhejiang Lions GM Ye Xiangyu flatly denied the rumors and says she is not interested in players who will bolt after a few games. I believe her because she has had a bad experience with Rafer Alston last season. (He left the team to attend streetball legend Troy "Escalade" Jackson's funeral in NYC, much to the team's dismay as they were making the playoffs push. The team then decided to replace him.)

The rumor mill on NBA stars going to China is out of control now. Kobe, Dwight, Carmelo, CP3, Dirk, Pau... everybody is saying China. While it makes interesting discussion, I highly doubt we will see more than 2 superstars heading that way. Here's Marbury's take on why (he has good points):
http://network.yardbarker.com/nba/a...r_amare_could_handle_playing_in_china/5829328
“I don’t think those guys will want to go through it,” said Marbury, who is training in Los Angeles. “China is not for everybody — a whole ‘nother world. I don’t think they’re going to go there, not the big-time guys. Maybe they’d come for a little bit, but if the season is cancelled for the year, I don’t think they’d want to stay. They’ll want to go home.

“I don’t think Carmelo Anthony is going to run like they want to run in practice,” Marbury added. “They want to run you to death. The first time I got there, they ran in practice for two straight hours. I said, ‘Is that what we have to do every practice?’ “
The most important thing, though, is what the CBA import rules are for the next season, which probably won't come out until after FIBA Asia given what I know about the efficiency of CBA management. There are some rumors, but who knows, maybe they'll disallow imports altogether :D
 
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Xinjiang re-signed Quincy Douby and is looking at Carl Landry to fill the other spot. Two other candidates are emerging: Josh Powell and Shawne Williams. Powell is also targeted by Zhejiang Lions.

Beijing re-signed Randolph Morris and is targeting Stephon Marbury, who just arrived in Beijing yesterday, his nth (n>5) trip to Beijing since the CBA ended. Pending CBA rules for the new season, Beijing can only sign him if Foshan decides to give him up.

Foshan is reportedly close to Hamed Haddadi as the Asian import.
 
Good read, thanks.

As expected the "crazy" team that hotly pursues the NBA superstars is Shanxi, whose owner Wang Xingjiang has a reputation of slapping his players and not paying them, yet have always been a trailblazer in getting "big names" -- first Bonzi Wells and then Stephon Marbury. Interestingly, or shall I say not surprisingly, they never made the playoffs even once. If you wonder why, there's an English book coming out next spring titled "Brave Dragons" by Jim Yardley -- after Shanxi Brave Dragons -- which would give you an inside-look of this peasant-turned-billionaire character and why the team has no success despite the owner's well intentions and huge investment.

Shanxi is pursuing Kobe and Chris Paul, sources in China say. Not sure who is asking for Tony Parker, could be them as well.

Xinjiang has reportedly made a big offer to Wilson Chandler.

Shandong is the first team to get it done, as two ex-NBA players who played last season in Europe already joined their team: Alan Anderson and Othello Hunter.

Dongguan has 3 "practice imports" with the team: Horace Wormerly, Gavin Edwards and Danny Peopeoi (? Is there such a person?) But nobody expects them to be the regular imports during the season.

The CBA owners will meet this week so we shall expect official rules and regulations in the near future -- I hesitate to say "soon".
 
Shandong is the first team to get it done, as two ex-NBA players who played last season in Europe already joined their team: Alan Anderson and Othello Hunter.

Hi friend, do you have a source link about Shandong's new players Anderson & Hunter??
 
Two-day CBA owner's meeting ended, and it's official that guys like Kobe or Dwight Howard won't suit up for CBA teams this season. 16 out of 17 owners (the only exception is, who else, Shanxi), including Yao Ming voiced their opposition to allowing players with a current NBA contract to the CBA. On the other hand, NBA free agents are OK, including guys like Earl Clark whose contract was not picked up by the Magic in the summer.

The news out of China today is T-mac has shown strong interest to an offer from Foshan, and is eligible. McGrady will be on a personal trip to Foshan at the end of the month and will meet with the team then. Currently he doesn't have many suitors in the NBA but in China he's the man.
 
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