NBA players visit China during off season

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With the champions now decided, the NBA season is on its summer break. While players are taking a rest from the basketball courts, some are busy making promotional visits around the world, including to China. CCTV’s Wu Yina filed this report from Shanghai.

NBA players visit China during off season

With the champions now decided, the NBA season is on its summer break. While players are taking a rest from the basketball courts, some are busy making promotional visits around the world, including to China.

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  • Every summer, more than 30 NBA players come to China either for sponsorship fulfilments or for commercial events.
  • Big names like LeBron James or Kobe Bryant can earn more than ten million yuan for just one trip to China,

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It’s a global process to produce the basketballs used in NBA games The journey starts in North America, makes it way to a factory in China, and finally Alabama for testing. And at the center of it all is a family-run tannery in Chicago. CCTV’s Roza Kazan filed this report.

A behind-the-scenes on basketball production

It's a global process to produce the basketballs used in NBA games The journey starts in North America, makes it way to a factory in China, and finally Alabama for testing. And at the center of it all is a family-run tannery in Chicago. CCTV's Roza Kazan filed this report.


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