Tag: Chinese Basketball Association

Tacko Fall put a much shorter man through the earth’s crust with vicious dunk

What’s the opposite of a business decision?

Unless you watch a lot of NBA Summer League, Tacko Fall is probably a name you haven’t heard in a while. There’s a good reason that’s changing today.

In a highlight making the rounds on social media, from what appears to be one of Fall’s most recent games in the Chinese Basketball Association, a man much shorter than Fall tried to contest a dunk by Fall. And, well, you can say Tacko wasn’t the only fall in that game.

This man took a massive L.

This is what happens when you make the unwise decision to jump with someone listed as 7-foot-6. I’m not even exactly sure what the defender was expecting to accomplish there.

Chinese team with a suspended Eric Bledsoe disqualified for ‘fixing’ multiple playoff games

Yao Ming, the CBA’s president, called it a “saddening” week for the league.

Two basketball teams in the Chinese Basketball Association, the Shanghai Sharks and the Jiangsu Dragons, were thrown out of the ongoing playoffs for match-fixing.

The Sharks have several players with NBA experience including Eric Bledsoe, Johnny O’Bryant, and Jamaal Franklin (who last played in March). Antonio Blakeney is the only player with NBA experience on the Dragons, although a few other players on the roster have played NBA Summer League.

Findings from an investigation from the CBA Disciplinary and Ethics Commission concluded that Shangai showed “negative contention” during the second game of a three-game series, which Jiangsu won.

Bledsoe was serving a four-game suspension for the Sharks, and he served all three during the three-game series against the Dragons. But the team was accused of “giving up” during the second game, forcing a third game, so that he could return for the second game if his team advanced to the semifinals.

Jiangsu then demonstrated a “lack of competitive effort” in the third and final game of the series, in which Shanghai won 108-104.

Jiangsu had several “unexpected errors” in the final few minutes of the game and coach Li Nan failed to call a timeout that could have at least kept them in contention.

Here is a video summary of the pivotal moments in question:

According to Mark Dreyer, each club was fined approximately the equivalent of $727,000. Shanghai coach Li Chunjiang and Jiangsu GM Shi Linjie were each given a 5-year ban from the league.

Jiangsu coach Li Nan and Shanghai GM Jiang Yusheng, meanwhile, were both handed 3-year bans.

Shanghai was scheduled to play the Shenzhen Aviators (who have former NBA and G League players Jared Sullinger, Justin Wright-Foreman, and Askia Booker on their roster). Shenzhen will now advance to the semifinals now that Shanghai was ruled ineligible.

Yao Ming, who played for the Sharks before coming to the United States, is now the president of the Chinese Basketball Association. He called it a “quite saddening” week.

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Report: Chinese Basketball Association return now on hold until July

The Chinese Basketball Association is continuing to push back the timeline of their return, according to ESPN’s Jonathan Givony.

Although the NBA has been holding out hope in public for the last month that they feel there is some way for them to resume their season and crown a 2020 NBA Champion, the indicators from the real world continue to cast significant doubt on those possibilities.

The Chinese Basketball Association, which has been attempting to figure out a way to return to play for months, beginning with a target date of April, will now have a potential restart pushed back to at least July, according to ESPN’s Jonathan Givony. And a decision on when they can return won’t be made for about a month.

No final decision on the CBA’s season can be made without government clearance, which won’t happen until mid-May at the earliest, sources told ESPN. The possibility of canceling the remainder of the season is still very much in play.

So for China, cancelling their basketball season is in serious consideration, likely indicating that basketball around the world will not continue until at least that time. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver also indicated that he would not make any major decisions until at least May about the future of the NBA season.

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China again pushes back on start date of Basketball Association, all sports

The Chinese Basketball Association will have to wait even more to restart their league, according to new rules from their government.

For at least the third time, the Chinese government has told the Chinese Basketball Association and other sports in the country that they will have to push back their desired start date, according to a new report from ESPN’s Brian Windhorst.

Windhorst had previously reported that the league was aiming for a May 1 restart in a couple of designated central locations, but that plan is being pushed back at least a couple of weeks, according to documents obtained by ESPN. This would suggest that any hopes of the sports world resuming is going to be a lot longer than previously expected. In addition to the news from China, the City of Toronto banned all events through June 30.

It’s unclear how much this news will impact the NBA and their attempts to salvage the season, which may include an NCAA-style 16-team tournament and play-in games to help determine the rest of the field. However, all of that is a long way off.

Although LeBron James and the Lakers have been cleared from quarantine, much of the rest of the country, as well as the world, is far behind from making such things a reality.

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Warriors to sign former Stanford product Chasson Randle to 10-day deal

As the Warriors seek help in their backcourt, they’ve turned to a familiar Bay Area face.

With the Warriors desperately needing some help in their backcourt, former Stanford University product Chasson Randle is expected to provide some temporary relief.

On Sunday, ESPN’s Jonathan Givony broke the news that Randle, who has been competing in the Chinese Basketball Association, will be released from his contract and will sign with Golden State. The news comes courtesy of Randle’s agent, Darrell Comer.

According to Givony, Randle is one of many former NBA players whose careers and livelihoods have been put on hold due to the Coronavirus outbreak. As the disease has infected more than 87,000 people worldwide, it has had a significant impact on the Chinese economy, including its professional sports contests. The disease itself has disproportionately impacted China, as the epicenter of the crisis is Wuhan in the Hubei province.

The following comes from Givony’s report:

Randle was one of approximately 40 American players — which include former NBA players Jeremy Lin, Lance Stephenson, Tyler Hansbrough, Ty Lawson and others — in limbo as the CBA has indefinitely suspended its league due to the coronavirus outbreak… The league is not expected to resume until early April, if at all…

Other prominent names included in the report are Jeremy Lin, Lance Stephenson and Tyler Hansbrough. If the resolution reached between Randle and his Chinese club are any indication, there might be an influx of other NBA-caliber talents soon hitting the NBA free agency market.

In the immediate future, though, the Warriors have someone they can turn to in the backcourt, and he’s a familiar face to those in touch with Bay Area hoops.