Wang Zhizhi hugged his younger teammates, smiled and left the Istanbul stadium after his last World Championship match against Lithuania on Tuesday.
Yi Jianlian fought for every rebound and point in the paint, even though he was suffering from a sore Achilles' tendon.
Houston Rockets All-star center Yao Ming is confident he will be ready for the start of the NBA regular season after a team doctor declared his surgically-repaired foot fully healed.
With Houston Rockets All-star center Yao Ming only just recovering from a serious foot injury, his national team continues to struggle to find form ahead of the FIBA World Championship of basketball that tips off in Turkey on Saturday.
Serbian center Nenad Krstic of the NBA's Oklahoma City Thunder has been suspended for three games and fined 45,000 Swiss francs ($43,950) over last week's mass brawl at a basketball tournament in Greece.
Brazil's legendary basketball icon Oscar Schmidt received a huge honor on Friday as the athlete was named to the 2010 FIBA list of athletes to be inducted into the Hall of Fame.
Pau Gasol has ruled himself out of Spain's defence of their world title later this year on the advice of doctors, the Los Angeles Lakers forward said on Tuesday.
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