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Coronavirus Outbreak: Beijing-based retired basketball star Stephon Marbury arranging for shipment of surgical masks to US
•Marbury, who was born on New York’s Coney Island, said he wanted to help his home city solve its reported shortage of masks.
Jeremy Lin among other American basketball players return to China to complete CBA season
•Around 40 American and other foreigners play in the 20-team CBA league and all will have to undergo 14 days of quarantine after their return to China.
Despite ongoing backlash from Chinese fans, NBA likely to retain status as most popular basketball league in China
•NBA commissioner Adam Silver admitted this week the league had already suffered 'fairly dramatic consequences' from the tweet by Rockets general manager Daryl Morey.
NBA: Chief Communications Officer Mike Bass's statement on Houston Rockets saga slightly altered in Chinese translation
•The divergent language in the NBA's Chinese Weibo statement appears to be an effort to assuage people in China who have expressed outrage over Morey's initial tweet
Shanghai Sharks fan taunt opponents with chant about 1937 massacre of Nanjing on anniversary of mass killing
•The Nanjing massacre is a hugely sensitive topic in China, which says that 300,000 people died in a six-week spree of killing, rape and destruction by the Japanese military.