Tencent has quietly resumed online broadcasts in China of National Basketball Association preseason games after a dispute last week prompted all of the American league's official Chinese partners to suspend ties.
Thousands of Chinese basketball fans cheered on the Los Angeles Lakers and Brooklyn Nets at an NBA exhibition game in the city of Shenzhen on Saturday night - but some warned the organization to stay out of politics.
China has clamped down on state media coverage and online discussion of an American basketball executive’s tweet about the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.
The capital's knife-crime epidemic is no secret. Could evening basketball sessions, intended to lure kids away from gangs, be the answer? Amy Sedghi heads courtside to find out
Basketball Hall of Famer Jim Calhoun was accused of sexual discrimination by a former associate athletic director at the University of Saint Joseph, where Calhoun has worked since 2018.
