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Wednesday, April 11, 2001, updated at 14:41(GMT+8) | ||||||||||||||
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China Aims to Win Basketball Title in EA Games"Everybody believes China will win in the East Asian Games. That is also what I think," said Wang Fei after the first-day training session of the 17-man team. Along with China's Asian Games and Championship winning team veterans, Wang Fei also added some young blood to his team by calling in three 19-year-old new faces of Mo Ke, Hu Xuefeng and Du Feng. Wang said he had decided a 14-man squad to enroll for the EA Games, which is scheduled from May 19-27 in Osaka, Japan. "I'll save some experienced veterans for July's Asian Basketball Championship in Shanghai, which will decide the Asian berth to compete in the world championship," Wang said. Wang, who had study experiences in Dallas with Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA) for half a year in 2000, said one of Mavericks assistant coaches would join in the Chinese national team for physical training. "He will come to Beijing next Wednesday or Thursday," Wang said, not mentioned the name of the coach. China will play three warm-up games against the All-Star team of America's International Basketball League (IBL) on May 5, 7 and 9 in China before the East Asian Games. Wang Zhizhi, Mavericks newly recruited center, will join the national squad next month.
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