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Former NBA star Tracy McGrady made his Chinese Basketball Association debut with the Qingdao Double Star Eagles over the weekend, losing a heartbreaker to the Fujian Sturgeons after Sundiata Gaines, formerly of the NBA's Utah Jazz, drained a three-pointer with no time left to put Fujian up 95-92. It was the sort finish -- dramatic, supremely marketable -- that CBA executives have been dreaming of ever since they started pushing hard to recruit former NBA players a couple of years ago. 前NBA球星麦蒂(Tracy McGrady)加盟青岛双星后在上周末进行了CBA联赛首秀，不料双星却在最后一刻输给福建浔兴。前NBA犹他爵士队球星盖恩斯(Sundiata Gaines)在终场前最后一刻投入三分球，青岛双星没有时间扳回比分，最终以92-95败北。这种充满戏剧性且推广性很强的比赛结局正是CBA高管多年前开始大力征召NBA前球星以来梦想出现的场面。 But if the presence of so many marquee names on CBA courts has given the league an immediate boost, it's not necessarily a good thing for Chinese basketball as a whole. Or so says China's biggest homegrown basketball star. Reuters姚明但是，如果只要众多大牌球星出现在CBA球场上就能给中国篮球联赛带来迅速的提升，这对中国篮球整体而言未必是一件好事。一位中国本土培养出来的大牌篮球明星是这么认为的。 'We need to do something to help local basketball grow. You can't always rely on the foreign basketball players to come and help with your marketing and all that,' retired eight-time NBA All-Star Yao Ming told China Real Time in a recent interview. 'You need to have local people come in and have a deep impact, to make that link, that connection between the players and the fans.' | 
