Comparative Study Of The Chinese Basketball Association With The United States Men's Basketball

Sports cause develops quite well in both China and the United States, wich are the biggest developing and developed countries in the world. And basketball, as one of the ten ball games, also develops well in those two countries.The United States is the both cradle and paradise of the basketball game. Since 1891, the basketball game came into being, it has become more and more prospersous. And it entered a brand new period of professionalization development especially after the foundation of NBA. Now, NBA is the most successful and famous basketball professional alliance around the world. Therefore, lots of basketball players want to be one of the members of it, such as Wang Zhizhi, Ba Te'er, Yao Ming, Yi Jianlian in China. And some outstanding players in South Africa, Africa and Europe are also eager to join this group.Acturally, the basketball game developed not so late in China, but because of certain political and economic reasons, it does prosper as it would be. After the establishment of PRC, it has developed rapidly, especially after the foundation of CBA in the year of 1995, and basketball game in China has gradually professionlized.China basketball team and U.S. basketball team have played a lot in the World Championships and Olympic Games, but the winner is always the U.S. basketball team. And China basketball team and U.S. basketball team played in the World Championships and Olympic Games in the year of 2006 and 2008 respectively, and the results are still not what we want even though with the core players of Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi and Yi Jianlian.This paper makes a comparison analysis of the men's basketball in China and U.S. based on the documents and materials, Internet information collection, video observation, statistics. It mainly analyzes the history of development of basketball game in China and U.S., together with the gap between the two teams and its reasons.