Basketball has gained more and more popularity in China ... More good Chinese players are in the NBA, like Yao Ming and (New Jersey Nets power forward) Yi Jianlian. Chinese people feel so proud of them. 
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BANGKOK, THAILAND - AUGUST 30: A member of Anti-government People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) stands behind barbed wire outside Government on August 30, 2008, in Bangkok, Thailand. The protesters want to unseat the seven-month old coalition government lead by Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej.
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Georgian soldiers run near a blazing building after a Russian bombardment in Gori, 80 km (50 miles) from Tbilisi, August 9, 2008. A Russian warplane dropped a bomb on an apartment block in the Georgian town of Gori on Saturday, killing at least 5 people, a Reuters reporter said. The bomb hit the five-story building in Gori close to Georgia's embattled breakaway province of South Ossetia when Russian warplanes carried out a raid against military targets around the town.
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CARSON, CA - JULY 31: Andre Villa practices in the Moto X Freestyle during the summer X Games 14 at Home Depot Center on July 31, 2008 in Carson, California.
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A woman collects drinking water from a tube well at the flooded village of Godadhar in Faridpur July 27, 2008. Several areas in north and northeastern Bangladesh remain inundated with floodwaters after the embankments of the rivers Jamuna and Padma collapsed due to heavy rainfall earlier this week.
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Flood victims wait for relief at a make-shift camp set up at a bus stop, in Saharsa, 270 kilometers (168 miles) northeast of Patna, India, Saturday, Aug. 30, 2008. A rescue boat filled with panicked flood victims capsized and killed 20 people in northern India, where monsoon flooding grew worse because of heavy rain and water flowing from neighboring Nepal, officials said Saturday.
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A woman (front) kneels down to get her picture taken beside the table of US Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) (L) at Yankee Kitchen Family Restaurant during a campaign stop in Boardman, Ohio, August 30, 2008. Obama is joined by vice presidential running mate Senator Joe Biden (D-DE) (R) and their wives Michelle Obama (2nd L) and Jill Biden.
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Bielefeld's Zambian striker Chris Katongo celebrates scoring during the German first division Bundesliga football match Arminia Bielefeld vs Hamburg SV at the Schueco Arena in the western German city of Bielefeld on August 30, 2008.
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Marion Bartoli of France returns to Lindsay Davenport of the US at the US Open tennis tournament August 29, 2008 in Flushing Meadows, NY. Bartoli won the match 6-1, 7-6(3).
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Sebastien Loeb from France and co-driver Daniel Elena in the Citroen Total world Rally team in their Citroen C4 WRC during day two of the WRC Rally of New Zealand, in Hamilton on August 30, 2008.
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Italian Fiat Yamaha rider Valentino Rossi races his motorbike during the MotoGP free practice session at Misano track for the San Marino Grand Prix in Misano Adriatico on August 30, 2008.
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Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning looks on from the bench during the second quarter of a preseason NFL football game against the Cincinnati Bengals in Indianapolis, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008.
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Quotes about New Jersey Nets
Basketball has gained more and more popularity in China ... More good Chinese players are in the NBA, like Yao Ming and (New Jersey Nets power forward) Yi Jianlian. Chinese people feel so proud of them.
said Zhang Haiyan
in McClatchy
I just wanted to try and impose my will ... Just being in that position six years ago [in the Eastern Conference finals against the New Jersey Nets] and letting it slip away, I didn't want it to slip away again.
said Paul Pierce
in Boston Globe
Quotes from articles mentioning New Jersey Nets
The guy still sits in the front row, and I visit him every night and shake his hand and thank him for launching my career.
was said
in USA Today
Everyone is fishing in the same pond for sponsors ... My feeling is, 'Why don't I create my own pond?' — and that is what I did.
was said
in USA Today
