{"id":204672,"date":"2025-10-11T05:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T05:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/204672\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T05:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T05:00:09","slug":"hong-kong-hosting-national-games-basketball-could-be-the-start-of-bigger-things-for-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/204672\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong hosting National Games basketball could be the start of \u2018bigger\u2019 things for sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Local basketball officials have said that staging the National Games\u2019 men\u2019s under-22 tournament in Hong Kong could prove to be a stepping stone to something \u201cbigger\u201d in the future.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Set to be held at the Coliseum from November 10 to 20, the competition could be a milestone for Hong Kong, and not only in showcasing its ability to host a big event, senior officials said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Benny Chau Chi-yan, manager of the city\u2019s men\u2019s U22 team, said the sport had been playing catch-up since the pandemic, which \u201cset us back in basketball development.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThere is nothing better than finally hosting a major basketball event in Hong Kong,\u201d Chau said. \u201cTo have our fans supporting our up-and-coming players at home is the best thing for us after the string of unfortunate events involving our national team.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Local basketball officials have said that staging the National Games\u2019 men\u2019s under-22 tournament in Hong Kong could prove&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[118961,127240,58727,64,63,726,93889,3686,127235,127243,512,127244,127236,39380,127246,10340,54592,54597,127238,53573,36448,127237,127239,4933,127241,127242,85,13430,127245],"class_list":["post-204672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-2025-national-games","tag-anthony-groot-baltink","tag-asian-university-basketball-league","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-basketball-association-of-hong-kong","tag-beijing","tag-benny-chau-chi-yan","tag-chen-lei","tag-china","tag-china-games","tag-chu-ka-kun","tag-guangdong","tag-hangzhou-asian-games","tag-hong-kong","tag-hong-kong-bulls","tag-hong-kong-coliseum","tag-ivan-yang-bo-wen","tag-macau","tag-national-games","tag-rex-wu-wai-tsun","tag-ryan-chak","tag-shanghai","tag-sichuan","tag-sichuan-whale","tag-sports","tag-tsinghua-university","tag-zhai-rui"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}