Alibaba

Popularity of NBA In China Seems to Create Endless Options

Tim Reynolds, Associated PressSeptember 20, 2019

Kobe Bryant went to China for the first time in 1998, making the trip to Beijing to help operate an instructional basketball clinic for about a dozen kids. The local coaches working with him didn’t know a lot about the game. Barely anyone noticed that an NBA player was in town.

Basketball Sports

Alibaba exec to buy Nets, arena for $3.4 billion

BRIAN MAHONEY AP Basketball WriterAugust 22, 2019

In a record sale for a U.S. sports franchise, the co-founder of Alibaba agreed to buy the remaining 51 percent of the Brooklyn Nets and Barclays Center for about $3.4 billion, two people with knowledge of the details said Friday.