How the NBA is taking over China | CNBC Sports 

NFL will never be global game.

Kemba Walker is more popular in China than in Charlotte.

Credit japanese animate "slam dunk" for spreading basketball among 80s and 90s! Yao Min probably watched it too.

"The world is getting flatter and flatter" okay there bud

Jordan opened the market, Yao made it boom.

Michael Jordan，Japanese animate "slam dunk"，Yao Ming，three main factors make Chinese craze about basketball and NBA.

'' my favourite team is Lakers but today I like sex...'' 2:17

i admire my chinese brothers.. chinese people always so chill

NBA is killing it, I really liked how this pre-season they had international teams play against NBA teams

The best basketball player is me when my opponents are 5 year old's

With their deep pocket i wont be suprise if Chinese billionaires sweep buying all NBA teams soon

2:21 "i like the sex" lol

Cmon, Linsanity in a Knicks jersey had to have impacted that timeline as much as Yao Ming did.

How China took over the NBA. Fixed the title for you.

Here from Perú and the nba is most exciting league.

Thank yao

I was born in the late 80s and the popularity of basketball started blooming with our generation. I sum it up to 3 factors. No.1 huge disappointment from Chinese national soccer team, their constant poor performance had broke so many fans heart and driven ppl away from participating soccer. (It used to be the biggest sport in China). No. 2 Japanese animate “slam dunk” inspired hundreds of Millions of kids to play basketball before Yao Ming made his landing at NBA. No. 3 with the first 2 factors laying its foundation for basketball to grow in China, Yao Ming pushed the sport to a national level where the entire country was watching his performance at NBA.

It is so ironic that it just took 3 days for China to ban so called MOST POPULAR SPORTS LEAGUE. HAHA

Im half north korean chinese and i like basketball EDIT Basketball is a cool game with good fan base

It all started with Slam Dunk...

We call all thank the man who never gets credit for inventing the sport james naismith

4 Names in sequence, MJ, And1, Kobe and Yao Ming, after all it's a great pro product of a worldly popular sport, people just need a reason to start, and the name MJ is not a bad reason. I still remember the day MJ had his "last game", y'all know which game it is, at least 1/3 of the urban boys skip school to watch. And from another perspective, basketball is a sport requires very little to run, a half court of sort, a makeshift basket, a bunch of friends and you are good to go, when you're a nation with hugh city population here and there, basketball is really the easiest for people to have a sport of their own.

2:22 he has no loyalty

Thanks uptin,great video Yeah,Chinese loves NBA

More like "how china is taking over the NBA" 😂 Foh B

Basketball is the greatest sport in the world

With all of the youth programs in China, it's only a matter of time before we see a true super star coming out of these programs. Yao Ming was the first, but he definitely won't be the last.

This aged like mayonaise in the hot sun

china is what made the nba the bigest sport int he world- pushing into china was sterns best move- and put them above the nfl and mbl

2:22 uh... today i like the ses, ses, sex

If there is another yao ming type player to come out of China but instead of a center maybe pg, sg, or sf that isn't injury prone it would really take off.

Hello CNBC please do a story on SOCCER IN CHINA. There is a new trend/interest in soccer next to NBA!

Literally taking over NBA, the irony

7:58 $25 to get in the NBA zone? That's incredibly expensive you realize you could eat for about week on that amount of money in China?

Interesting

What's Trending? T-Series vs Pewdiepie??? ??

nice!!!

Are the Toronto Raptors big in China?

People go where the money is

D&G，what did you learn?

Surprised there are Celtics fans there. I would assume most fans there are Rockets and Lakers fans.

when a market is more than twice the entire population of your country(50% of 1.4 billion), of course you're going to do everything you can to harness it. especially since you can't compete with the nfl in the home country

Im frm pilipinas ilove pba

Correction: How China is taking over the NBA

@1:43 in background, only NBA fans will know...lol

With 1. 4 Billion people there has to be at least 10 potential Jeremy Lins there.

Uh... Mao Zedong organized games during his reign as well to promote physical fitness. It's been fairly popular in China as a sport since the 80s and 90s. MJ was huge.

Philiipines is more basketball dense!

How old was that “20 yr” guy?!

We need a basketball Champions League

0:10 เคยดู NBA 20 ปีที่แล้ว (ต้องมีช่องทางให้เขารับชม อย่างน้อย free tv) Kobe fan ต้องมีนักกีฬาระดับนี้ (การพัฒนาคนสำคัญต่อความสำเร็จระดับโลก) คนจะยอมฝึกเพื่อเงินแน่ ต้องสร้าง ผลประโยชน์ก่อน เงินถึงเข้ามา - CEO ต้องมี vision นำเติบโต สู่ระดับโลก - มองเล็กลง แค่ทำให้ my gr. โตไประดับโลกให้ได้พอ แบบนี้ดีกว่า ถึงจะคุมได้ระยะยาว 6:00 เชื่อมโยงกับ FC มี weibo wechat ติดต่อตัวตัว 7:20 player มีสำนักงานตามตลาดทั่วโลก เพื่อเพิ่มฐานแฟน ตลาดจีนยังไงก็สำคัญ เถ้าแก่น้อยก็ให้ความสำคัญ (การมีฐานในแต่ละตลาดก็สำคัญ ต้องสร้างเติบโตให้ได้ usa มีแบบนี้ทุกอุต)

Nba will be popular in China until a Chinese soccer Superstar comes.

NBA respect chinese market and fans

This aged terribly

Slam Dunk might have made it popular

Do you think the NBA would ever expand to China? Like a team in Shanghai or something?

They'll get over it once they Qualify again For Fifa world Cup

10 to 20 years from now you going to see more chinese player in the nba .

The people from all over the world didn’t know in china we watch TV always for Free including NBA . The national public media bought the right for the people, not like in the western media always let you pay for those TV . I was surprised in the USA during The Olympic Games people have to pay for the media, otherwise they can’t see the LIVE, but in China we always can watch the Olympic Games for free . We are national media instead of private media.

Great, now American basketball teams are leaving for China.

Because there will be more Chinese player who is NBA level!💪

My teacher is making the class watch this video

uhhh jack ma owns part of the nets

All these numbers are grossly exaggerated. For example, there is not possibility that 300 million Chinese are playing basketball. 3 millions are the most.

The title should be “How China is taking over NBA with their money”

Basketball is popular in indonesia

NBA is just some huge guys playing around in a small area

you forgot the philippines

China also taking over SEA

Like for NBA TV broadcasting in Australia, 200 million views from China Yao Ming got drafted first What about Ben Simmons?? Australia Population: 25ish million China Population: 1 billion something Ok they won't make a profit, but we really want to watch the NBA You have the NBL ............................

I dont like say that but Nba gotta thanks Curry, because of him Nba got popular

"i wear dallas jersey because my boyfriend love it"

"how"

"it's a cultural revolution" lol nice one

Didn’t even say the Toronto Raptors😭😭

The league should thanks Yao.

NBA will never be successful in India. People in India want to see their own ppl part of teams which is very far off. Chinese are more willing to see non Chinese in sports, movies etc but NOT Indians.

2:00

Damn India, what happened?

Ironic

While china still making fake NBA jerseys and Jordans...

The NFL is salty😡

Not anymore

NBA will be entering INDIA soon

Chiiiinnnnaaa

LeBron

China basketball crazy??are you kidding me??thay are counterfeit crazy...go to the philippines and you will see what is craziness is all about.

Philippines more love basketball than china.

but jeremy lin is taiwanese

hahah tinalo pa ang PBA na matagal na sa industry of sports . sa pilipinas lng pinag uusapan ang PBA haha

Basketball is the only credible American sport, the rest are jokes

Hypocrisy. Money talks.

...say everything and twist words...football (i.e that is soccer) is still the most popular sport

Is basketball bigger than soccer in China.

No You’re wrong, China 🇨🇳 scored NBA No one scores china.

ONE qualification for the world cup and nba go to dust in china

I thought soccer is the number 1 sports in china.

I'm glad it's not the NFL. It's a brain Dead sport.

NBA players are huge in size, Can't grow up to that sheer physical size, So less likely to compete with them.

America needs to boycott the NBA