Finally, for many years, major national broadcaster including CCTV5 and quite a few regional channels have broadcast major international events in which Chinese men’s teams participated, such as the Olympic Games, the FIBA World Championships, the FIBA Asia Championships, the Asian Games...etc as well as the CBA league. The TV ratings of these games have always been at the top of sport shows. If the Chinese men's team could play at the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup, CCTV 5 would for sure continue to broadcast all games of FIBA's flagship event to the world's largest audience of 1.3 billion Chinese people.

China Basketball Association stressed if China is granted a wild card, it will send the best players to Spain 2014. The CBA will take a series of strong measures to re-establish the best coaching team and select the most outstanding players from the CBA league to rebuild a national team, which could best represent Chinese basketball at the FIBA Basketball World Cup.

15 national teams have submitted their applications for the wild cards, they are: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Canada, China, Finland, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Nigeria, Poland, Qatar, Russia, Turkey and Venezuela.