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Article: China's sportswear giant Li-Ning signs NBA's Damon Jones
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- January 10, 2006
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China's sportswear giant Li-Ning signs NBA's Damon Jones
BEIJING, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- Chinese leading sportswear brand Li-
Ning signed a two-year contract with Cleveland Cavaliers' guard Damon
Jones of the National Basketball Association, the company announced
here on Tuesday.
Li-Ning becomes the first Chinese sportswear company to sign a
current American player of the NBA. China's brand Athletics signed
former Houston Rockets and Portland Trailblazers legend Clyder
Drexler in 2005.
The agreement was inked on Monday at Cleveland, Ohio. Details are
not disclosed.
Jones, 29, is one of the leading outside shooters in the NBA,
averaging .432 from behind the arc last season with the Miami ...
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