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Wang Zhelin (Chinese: 王哲林, pronounced [wǎŋ ʈʂɤ̌lǐn]; born January 20, 1994) is a Chinese basketball player for the Shanghai Sharks in the Chinese Basketball Association. He was drafted in the second round (57th overall) in the 2016 NBA draft by the Memphis Grizzlies.
It was not until 2011, however, that a regular season matchup was first played in Europe. The first regular season games in London pitted the New Jersey Nets against the Toronto Raptors, with the Nets sweeping the two-game series. In 2004, the NBA held a pair of preseason games in Shanghai and Beijing, as part of the NBA China Games.
The ABC Under-22 Championship 1996 is the 2nd edition of the ABC's championship for young men basketball. The games were held at Shanghai from November 1–9, 1996.
In addition to defeating the Washington Bullets in 1978, Maccabi Tel Aviv also beat the New Jersey Nets and Phoenix Suns in 1984, in Israel, and beat the Toronto Raptors, 103–105, in Toronto in 2005. This was the first loss of an NBA team on North American soil.
The Sharks, who share their colors with the New York Knicks, are best known outside China for having developed Yao Ming before he entered the National Basketball Association. Yao was the driving force behind their three consecutive appearances in the finals (1999–2000, 2000–01, and 2001–02), facing the Bayi Rockets each time. The Sharks ...
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Vonleh is the son of Samuel Vonleh and Renell Kumeh, and has two siblings: Aaronette Vonleh, a college basketball player at U. Arizona and U. Colorado from 2021 to 2024, [35] and Samnell Vonleh. [4] His paternal great-grandfather, Chief Blahsue Vonleh , was Paramount Chief of the Doe Clan, Nimba County, Liberia from 1920 until his death in 1947.
This page contains a list of indoor arenas which are currently the home of a professional basketball team in one of 13 major leagues worldwide, as of January, 2025. The criteria for a league being included in this list are that the league has at least 10 teams and that each team has a home arena with seating capacity of 2,000 or more.