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basket ball started in 1891, it was invented by a man namned james naismith in springfeild massachusetts
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basket ball started in 1902 the first professtional player was namnned wang zhizi, the traditional chinese basket ball never keept individual statistics, they just played for honour of china, this was at least 100 years before Yao Ming was drafted
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chinese was founded in 1995, it was introduced in 1930s so it took around 65 years to become offical
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Yao ming was the first non usa born NBA player, he was drafted in 2002
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on the 21st of july lebron james took a tour to china to help with the sports growth
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to this very day there are more people playing chinese basket then the entire USA population
