Thursday, April 28, 2016

The state-owned China Basketball Association rejected Yao Ming's attempt to "take the league private and remodel it in the image of the profitable NBA"

"Financial woes have produced a woeful product. Players, working for a relative pittance, often play comically badly. The league suffers from notoriously poor officiating, while corruption is rampant. Games are oftentimes played in an atmosphere more akin to pro wrestling than pro basketball (as evidenced by a melee between fans and players outside of a hotel last month). I’ve personally sat in unheated CBA arenas during cold winter months, as players donned parkas on the bench."