Houston Rockets and Sacramento Kings to play in Shanghai and Beijing
NBA Games Coming To China In 2004
HONG KONG, JUNE 2 -- The National Basketball Association (NBA) will
stage preseason games in Beijing and Shanghai in October 2004 as
part of the league's continuing effort to support the development and
growth of basketball in China, NBA Commissioner David Stern announced
today.
“We are excited about scheduling our first NBA exhibition games in
China,”said Stern. “China has been our fastest growing global market
and with the extraordinary success of Yao Ming, we anticipate the
development of more elite players as the 2008 Beijing Olympics approach.
We look forward to a wide array of cooperative projects with China's
Sports Ministry, its Basketball Federation, and the Chinese Basketball
Association to help continue the growth of basketball in China.”
“After discussions with the NBA and others authorities in China, it's
determined that October 2004 would be the most appropriate time to
schedule two NBA games in China,” said Mr. Sun Kanglin, Director of
the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Sports. “We recognize that the NBA is
committed to bring the action and excitement of the very best b-ball
in the world to the growing contingent of basketball fans throughout
China. We thank the NBA for their friendship and their support, and we
pledge that we will work with the NBA to make the China NBA Games 2004
the best ever.”
“We are in agreement and fully support the NBA’s plan to play a
preseason game in Shanghai in 2004,” said Mr. Jin Guoxiang, President
of the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Sports. We are proud to bring home
Yao Ming, and we extend our most sincere welcome to the Houston Rockets
and Sacramento Kings to Shanghai. We appreciate the confidence placed
on us and we are determined to stage a world class basketball event
that our fans and the people of Shanghai will be proud of. We hope to
stage NBA games in Shanghai every year.”
The China NBA Games 2004 will be organized in conjunction with the
respective Municipal Bureau of Sports of Beijing and Shanghai. The two
games will be an extension of the league’s long-standing relationship
with China that dates back to the 1978-79 season, when the NBA champion
Washington Bullets (now the Washington Wizards), traveled to China to
play two exhibition games against the Chinese National team.
Details and specific dates of the games will be announced later along
with a comprehensive schedule program of basketball and fan-development
events to commence this fall and run through the 2003-2004 season.
The NBA has since established offices in Hong Kong and Beijing, China
and has visited Asia several times over the years through various
coaching clinics and player tours, including visits by Kobe Bryant in
2001 and the NBA Legends Tour in 2000. The NBA also visited China in
1982, with a group of NBA players, including All-Stars Alex English
(Denver Nuggets) and Artis Gilmore (Chi. Bulls/San Antonio Spurs), who
toured the country and participated in an exhibition game. In 1985, as
part of cultural and educational agreements reached between the United
States and China, the NBA invited the Chinese National team to the USA
for a month to train and practice with legendary NBA coaches and other
league personnel.
Since its founding in 1946, the NBA truly has become a global
phenomenon that transcends national boundaries. Yao Ming is one
of a contingent of 65 international players from 34 countries and
territories on team rosters for the 2002-03 NBA season.
NBA.com, the league’s official Web Site, also has a comprehensive
Chinese destination, www.NBA.com/china. The site, one of eight
international Web sites on NBA.com, is written entirely in Chinese
characters and provides fans with extensive NBA coverage throughout
the season, including offseason trades and breaking news. With the
arrival of Chinese players like Yao Ming, the number one pick in the
2002 NBA Draft by the Houston Rockets, there has been a significant
increase in traffic to NBA.com from Chinese-speaking NBA fans.
In addition to the two games in China in 2004, the NBA also announced
its international preseason schedule for October 2003. There will be
preseason games in Mexico City, Mexico on October 5 (Dallas vs. Utah),
San Juan, Puerto Rico on October 7 (Miami vs. Philadelphia), Paris,
France on October 8 (San Antonio vs. Memphis) and Barcelona, Spain on
October 10 (Memphis vs. FC Barcelona). In addition, the Los Angeles
Clippers and the Seattle SuperSonics will open their 2003-04 NBA
regular season schedules with two games at Saitama Super Arena in
Saitama, Japan on Thursday, October 30 and Saturday, November 1. The
rest of the 2003-04 NBA preseason and regular season schedules will
be announced later this Summer.
轉自:http://www.nba.com/global/china_030602.html
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哈哈 是我想太多......
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