{"id":332980,"date":"2025-10-10T12:06:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T12:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/332980\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T12:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T12:06:12","slug":"nba-announces-partnership-with-chinese-basketball-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/332980\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA announces partnership with Chinese Basketball Association"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-leagues-and-governing-bodies \">The NBA announced a multiyear deal with the Chinese Basketball Association, meaning \u201cmore elite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/10\/09\/nba-bullish-on-regaining-presence-in-china-with-nets-suns-preseason-game\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/10\/09\/nba-bullish-on-regaining-presence-in-china-with-nets-suns-preseason-game\/\">basketball players from China<\/a> could emerge and play professionally\u201d in the U.S. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver \u201ccalled the agreement a \u2018transformational partnership.\u2019\u201d News of the league\u2019s deal with the CBA \u201ccame hours before the first of the NBA China Games\u201d between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/09\/24\/nets-playing-role-in-rebuilding-nbas-china-relationship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/09\/24\/nets-playing-role-in-rebuilding-nbas-china-relationship\/\">the Nets<\/a> and Suns in Macau. While elite player development \u201clies at the heart of the new agreement, the aim is to also raise standards across the sport in China.\u201d NBA China and the CBA will also \u201cprovide opportunities for the China men\u2019s and women\u2019s national teams to train and compete\u201d in the U.S., \u201cincluding taking part in the NBA Summer League and pre-season WNBA games.\u201d China\u2019s \u201crising stars will also be given the chance to be part of the NBA\u2019s elite basketball development\u201d programs, \u201cincluding Basketball Without Borders, NBA Academy and even potential tryouts conducted by NBA, WNBA and NBA G League teams\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/sport\/basketball\/article\/3328472\/nba-boss-adam-silver-calls-new-multi-year-deal-china-transformational-partnership?module=top_story&amp;pgtype=section\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/sport\/basketball\/article\/3328472\/nba-boss-adam-silver-calls-new-multi-year-deal-china-transformational-partnership?module=top_story&amp;pgtype=section\">SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, 10\/10<\/a>). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NBA announced a multiyear deal with the Chinese Basketball Association, meaning \u201cmore elite basketball players from China&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,1752,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-332980","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-deals","10":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115349788117743738","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}