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                    [Title] => Can Yao lift China in Athens?
                    [Summary] => Only four players remain on the Chinese national team from the squad that won the Asian Basketball Confederation (ABC) championship in Shanghai three years ago. The holdovers now playing at the Athens Olympics are 7-5 Yao Ming, 6-11 Bateer Menke, 6-6 Li Nan and 6-6 Zhang Jinsong.


The influx of fresh talent is unabated. Chinese officials are forever in search of better players to surround Yao, the Houston Rockets center who is a National Basketball Association (NBA) All-Star.


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                    [Title] => China win a formality
                    [Summary] => A cakewalk. That’s what China expects in facing host South Korea in the 14th Asian Games basketball finals at the 15,000-seat Sajik Gymnasium today. And after barely surviving the Philippines in the semis, it doesn’t look like the Koreans stand a Chinaman’s chance of scoring an upset.


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                    [Title] => RP cagers bow to Chinese, 51-92
                    [Summary] => Busan, South Korea —  The Philippines had no illusion of beating the defending champion China but it could draw some solace from the lowest halftime output it dealt the formidable Chinese before going down, 92-51, last night.


For the first two periods, the Nationals and the Chinese muscled each other out with unforgiving man-to-man defenses but the RP team couldn’t crank up a good scoring run and in the end that did it in.


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                    [Title] => Is China  unbeatable?
                    [Summary] => Defending champion China is clearly the team to beat in the basketball competitions of the 14th Asian Games in Busan, South Korea, on Sept. 24-Oct. 14. Coach Wang Fei is expected to bring back 10 players from the squad that took the gold in Bangkok four years ago plus 7-6 Yao Ming and newcomer Zhang Cheng in a bid to stay undefeated in the quadrennial event since 1986.


Wang Fei isn’t taking any chances. The Asiad gold means a lot to preserving China’s pride – it symbolizes superiority in the sport.
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                    [Title] => China thumps Lebanon for title
                    [Summary] => SHANGHAI – China’s basketball version of its Great Wall turned out to be just as impregnable.


Lebanon found this out Saturday night when it bowed to China, 93-67, in the 21st LG Asian Basketball Championship for Men presented by Amway at the Shanghai Stadium.


Shackled no end by the 7-foot-6 Yao Ming, 7-foot-1 Wang Zhizhi and 6-11 Menk Batere, the Lebanese simply faded and allowed the Chinese to retain their crown before adoring countrymen.


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Shackled no end by the 7-foot-6 Yao Ming, 7-foot-1 Wang Zhizhi and 6-11 Menk Batere, the Lebanese simply faded and allowed the Chinese to retain their crown before adoring countrymen.


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Can Yao lift China in Athens?

By Joaquin M. Henson | August 20, 2004 - 12:00am

Only four players remain on the Chinese national team from the squad that won the Asian Basketball Confederation (ABC) championship in Shanghai three years ago. The holdovers now playing at the Athens Olympics are...

Sports

China win a formality

By Joaquin M. Henson | October 14, 2002 - 12:00am

A cakewalk. That’s what China expects in facing host South Korea in the 14th Asian Games basketball finals at the 15,000-seat Sajik Gymnasium today. And after barely surviving the Philippines in the semis, it...

Sports

RP cagers bow to Chinese, 51-92

By Lito Tacujan | October 9, 2002 - 12:00am

Busan, South Korea — The Philippines had no illusion of beating the defending champion China but it could draw some solace from the lowest halftime output it dealt the formidable Chinese before going down,...

Headlines

Is China unbeatable?

By Joaquin M. Henson | December 27, 2001 - 12:00am

Defending champion China is clearly the team to beat in the basketball competitions of the 14th Asian Games in Busan, South Korea, on Sept. 24-Oct. 14. Coach Wang Fei is expected to bring back 10 players from the...

Sports

China thumps Lebanon for title

July 30, 2001 - 12:00am

SHANGHAI – China’s basketball version of its Great Wall turned out to be just as impregnable. Lebanon found this out Saturday night when it bowed to China, 93-67, in the 21st LG Asian Basketball Championship...

Sports