{"id":1182,"date":"2024-07-14T09:16:05","date_gmt":"2024-07-14T09:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2024-07-14T09:16:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T09:16:05","slug":"hong-kong-media-hong-kong-oriental-mens-basketball-negotiations-to-participate-in-the-pba-final-goal-is-still-to-become-a-cba-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=1182","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong media: Hong Kong Oriental men&#8217;s basketball negotiations to participate in the PBA final goal is still to become a CBA league"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1183 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/a8773912b31bb05104b0bf86b27a8bba4bede093-300x200.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/a8773912b31bb05104b0bf86b27a8bba4bede093-300x200.webp 300w, http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/a8773912b31bb05104b0bf86b27a8bba4bede093.webp 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to the South China Morning Post, the Hong Kong Oriental Dragon and Lion Basketball Club of China hopes to become a member of the CBA League.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper said Hong Kong&#8217;s Orient men&#8217;s basketball team is in talks to play in the PBA Commissioner&#8217;s Cup from November until early March next year, they hope to eventually take their place in China&#8217;s top basketball league.<\/p>\n<p>Officials at Hong Kong&#8217;s Orient men&#8217;s basketball team said the matter was still at an\u201cEarly\u201d stage, but initial feedback from Thursday&#8217;s talks with basketball authorities in Manila and the Philippines was positive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to play in the PBA (Philippine Basketball Association League) and the East Asian Super League (EASL) , and our ultimate goal is still to play in the CBA League,\u201d said the Hong Kong basketball official. We believe it is a good idea to continue to seek exposure and play at the highest possible level of basketball while we wait for progress in mainland China.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the South China Morning Post, the Hong Kong Oriental Dragon and Lion Basketball Club of China hopes to become a member of the CBA League. The newspaper said&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264,261],"tags":[371],"views":104,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1185,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions\/1185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}