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...Mavs have the broadest international following of any NBA team. Cuban signed the NBA's first Chinese player, 7-ft. 1-in. center Wang Zhizhi, and the first French player, Tariq Abdul-Wahad, as well as Canadian Steve Nash and Mexican Eduardo Najera. Fans across the world tuned into the first webcast of an NBA game last April and can get game previews at dallasmavericks.com in four languages: English, Spanish, German and Mandarin Chinese. Three times as many people click on the Chinese section as on the English...
...getting restless. Ma Jian, a 32-year-old forward, has taken the unprecedented step of suing his former team, the Beijing Olympians, in a highly publicized contract dispute. A few of the most talented players would like to move to the greener pastures of the NBA (center Wang Zhizhi, 23, became the first Chinese national to play in the NBA when he joined the Dallas Mavericks last year). But the government and the clubs themselves are the ones who decide who goes and who stays. "China views its athletes not as people but as tools that can be used...
...find this faith misplaced. Youngsters under the age of 25 are those most eager for China to show its muscle. "We will learn all the things you Americans teach us," says Qian Fei, a 22-year-old sitting at a Beijing sports bar and watching Chinese basketballer Wang Zhizhi's debut in the NBA. "And then we will use what we learned to beat...
...WANG ZHIZHI Chinese send 7-ft. 1-in. hoopster to NBA. Seems the U.S. is a lot less sensitive about airspace...
Although Wang Zhizhi is a very big man, the hopes of 1.3 billion Chinese strain even the mightiest of shoulders. But fueled by dinners of Texas beef, the 2.16-m Atlas has coolly shrugged off this monumental national burden. Last week, in his first game in the biggest of the big leagues, the National Basketball Association, the soft-spoken Wang wowed a capacity crowd by nailing two shots and a pair of free throws for his new team?the Dallas Mavericks. By the time the play-off-bound Mavs had triumphed over the Atlanta Hawks by 108-94, Asia...