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The Chinese Basketball Association (), often abbreviated to the CBA, is the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in Asia. The league is commonly known as the CBA, and this initialism is often used even in Chinese. There is also a Women's Chinese Basketball Association (WCBA) for women. The CBA should also not be confused with the National Basketball League (NBL), which is a professional "Division 2" minor league. A few Chinese CBA players, such as Wang Zhizhi, Yao Ming, Mengke Bateer, Yi Jianlian, Yi Hung Chen, and Sun Yue, have also played in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Conversely, a limited number of foreign players are allowed for each CBA team. Notable players include NBA All-Stars Stephon Marbury, Steve Francis, Gilbert Arenas, Tracy McGrady, Al Harrington and Metta World Peace, as well as NBA players who were CBA All-Stars Kenyon Martin, J. R. Smith, Aaron Brooks, and Shavlik Randolph. Emmanuel Mudiay was drafted in the first round of the 2015 NBA Draft as well, which made him the first foreign player to have been drafted right out of the CBA. == Background == The league began play in 1994. However, the CBA as the name of a league should not be confused with the "Chinese Basketball Association" organisation, which was founded in June 1956 (). In 1996 James Hodges became one of the first Americans to play in the CBA. Today, the regulating body for basketball in China is the Chinese Basketball Management Center (). Other Chinese basketball leagues include the National Basketball League (NBL), the Chinese University Basketball Association (CUBA) and the Chinese High School Basketball League (CHBL) (). At one time there was a league called the Chinese New Basketball Alliance (CNBA) (), one of whose teams was the Beijing Sea Lions, but it lasted only one season (1996–97) (). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chinese Basketball Association」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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