A huge story in the NBA this year is the international effect on the game. Big free agents going overseas, us bringing back the best of those countries, creating a unique state of flux in international talent. Although USA has again come to dominate the FIBA scene, there is an unprecedented international appeal for the sport, and even multinational blogging (visit our links to Chinese and German Hornets sites on the right under “All Hornets International,” and let us know if you’re aware of any more). But no international story has been bigger than China.
First of all, there was the Olympics, which was a smashing success. China proved to be a great venue, the world showed it could field a lot of talent, and it was a lot of fun to watch a variety of teams, not just the U.S. Also, there was the outcry about how Chinese voters influenced the All-Star starting line-ups; but, when you leave it to democracy, you have to accept how the people vote. I just love how excited another country is about the NBA, which, in the end, will only be good for basketball. Lastly, there was the interesting story of ex-Hornet, Bonzi Wells, going to Shanxi Zhongyu, averaging 34 points a game, hitting 50 and 40 points routinely, pulling down over 10 boards usually, and being nicknamed “His Majesty.” Great stuff.
And what else? Oh yeah, China loves HornetsHype.com. That’s right. China wants to know more about Rasual “Phoenix” Butler. China wants to know why Chris Paul should be MVP. If you don’t believe me, check out these links:
There it is. Yao may be huge in China. So is Yi. But the most populous country in the world is hungry for Hornets news. Believe it. Welcome to the Hype, China, we love your interest in the NBA. It’s faaaaAAAAaaantastic!
All smiles
That picture of Bonzi slays me.
I miss the Bonz, but he wasn’t really as productive as I thought he’d be (which is pretty definitive of his career).
Congrats on the global representation, ‘hype.
Hi,I am a Chinese Hornets fan.The links you wrote in this article is from our Website(www.hoopchina.com),the best basketball in china.I’am the Moderators in hoopchina and manage Hornets area(http://bbs.hoopchina.com/hornets).I usually copy article from here and translate it into Chinese,those two links is the examples.I like CP3 very much.I hope we can make friends and share our opinions about Hornets and NBA.My Email is gdzhu1987@163.com.My MSN is shrewdbean@live.cn.Sorry,My English is poor.
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it no need to amaze anything actually
most of NBA fans are crazy by CP3 ,and so did i
Great job!
@ China Fan and every other new visitor: thanks for stopping by; we’re glad you like the Hornets and Chris Paul. Feel free to copy any of our posts and put them on your site in your language. Certainly, no need to apologize about not speaking English well, neither myself or ticktock6 can speak or read any dialect of Chinese. It’s amazing how something like basketball can bring together people all across the world.
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MY MSN is shrewdbean@live.cn
CP is one of the best players in the legue,hornets is a great basketball team.I like this team as well as all the guys.Though Peja and Tyson still injuried,hornets has win 2 straight games,several hours later,it will comes the third one,I still believe.
I am a hornets fan also from Hoopchina,hopefully people here can understand my poor English
@mW: Sharing makes world beautiful!
It’s amazing that we can share our emotions and cheer for hornets together.
You know, that you guys found us in the website did make us feel a thrill.
Guess when Houston Rockets meet NEW ORLEANS HORNETS, which side we stand by?
@ Jonas: the HORNETS! Awesome. So glad to have you all on board. I’m also looking forward to another win tonight. I think we can definitely beat Golden State. Although, last time they were in New Orleans, the Warriors just hit just about every shot. Hopefully that won’t happen again.
So during the Olympics, the announcers told us that several NBA players have nicknames in China. Does CP3 have a nickname in China?
A lot of NBA players have nicknames, for example, we call Tyson Chandler “the King of Boxer” for the name of “Tyson”
Normally, we just call Paul CP3 just as you called.
@mW:Of course CP3 have nicknames! And so does Tyson.
We call CP3 “little baby” cause his last name Paul was sound like chinese word “baby”, and he’s so lovely that we call him “little baby”.
We also call CP3 like “King of hornets”, = =
http://bbs.hoopchina.com/344096.html
This link above was a discussion about his nicknames, we finally call him CP3 as you guys in US. But also we call him “little baby”, “King of hornets”, “black ghost”, “small cannon”(Paul also sound like Chinese word cannon), “sun of hornets” (The King is also the sun of hornets-_-|||)
Guess how we call Tyson? Wahaha, we call him “King of Boxer”, and also “bull baby”. We call him “King of Boxer” because his first name Tyson and he sometimes fights on court. Call him “bull baby” because he was a member of bulls. Call him baby because he is lovely, always like a child.
CP’ Another nikename is “pineapple”,in Chinese, pineapple is callde boluo,Paul’s Chinese name is baoluo,and CP3’s fans is also called boluomi,which means pineapple fans
It’s as if Bonzi is telling me, “If I can play pro ball, you definitely can too!”
I love Chris Paul soooooooooooo much~
And I love Hornets
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