How big is the NBA in China? Last season, more than half of the country’s roughly 1.4 billion people watched NBA programming on television in China, according to the league.
How big is the Chinese population in New York, both from mainland China and Taiwan? According to the NYC Department of City Planning, the Big Apple has the largest Chinese population of any city outside of Asia.
Those two facts alone, provided by NBCNews.com, would tend to push the Nets into the forefront of the NBA’s big push in China and Taiwan.