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Other Chinese basketball leagues include the National Basketball League (NBL), the Chinese University Basketball Association (CUBA), and the Chinese High School Basketball League (CHBL). [2] At one time there was a league called the Chinese New Basketball Alliance (CNBA), [ 3 ] one of whose most prominent teams was the Beijing Sea Lions, but ...
Basketball in China is officially governed by both the Chinese Basketball Management Centre (CBMC), a division of the State General Administration of Sports and the CBA, which is the nationwide non-governmental sports organisation and non-profit association that manages the country's premier CBA League (and not the same as this organization).
The CBA changed the name of the following five teams as a part of an ongoing plan. [4]Beikong Fly Dragons changed their name to Beijing Royal Fighters in May 2019.; Guangzhou Long-Lions changed their name to Guangzhou Loong Lions in May 2019.
On 12 March 2020, FIBA suspended all its competitions, including the Basketball Champions League (BCL), due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [21] On 31 March, the BCL decided that the season will have to be finished with a "Final Eight" tournament planned for 30 September 2020 until 4 October 2020. [ 22 ]
[1] [2] [3] The popularity of basketball in China has been supported by the Chinese Basketball Association which hosts professional play in China. In international competition, the Chinese men's national team has won 16 titles of the FIBA Asia Cup between 1975 and 2005 and is the dominant force in Asian basketball.
On 3 April, China reported 13,146 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, which was the highest single-day total of new cases since the height of the pandemic in Wuhan in February 2020. [ 14 ] On 4 April, officials in Suzhou announced a new mutation of the Omicron variant was detected in Changshu .
The team often struggled against top flight non-Asian competitors. However, in some cases, China refuted their critics and beat some the top European teams. In the 2004 Athens Olympics, China, coached by Del Harris, advanced to the final eight [5] after a 67–66 win over defending world champion Serbia and Montenegro.
When the country recorded its first two cases on 23 January 2020, it was among the first countries affected by COVID-19. [50] Two weeks later, only 150 cases had been reported outside mainland China; ten were in Vietnam, however, making it one of the top-ten affected countries.