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A website reports that Phil Anschutz- controlled AEG and the National Basketball Association will market, program and operate the arena in Beijing after the Olympics are over. LAObserved said AEG hopes to have a naming-rights partner within 35 days.
NBA commissioner David Stern described a “grand plan” for AEG to build as many as 12 arenas in China, where the Houston Rockets’ Yao Ming, right, is a big star.
“The world needs China rather than China needs the world in the basketball market,” said Xu Jicheng, a former Chinese national team player.
