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Wanted: New blood for Tibet's first pro team

Xinhua, November 9, 2015 Adjust font size:

Lhasa Jingtu, Tibet's first professional club of any sports, is recruiting new players nationwide to prepare for the National Basketball League (NBL) next year.

Tsetam Dorje, president of Jingtu, or Pureland, said that the new recruits will gather in Beijing and those who perform better in training will make it to the 14-member team.

"We hope more Tibetan players will be selected," he added.

The Tibetan team was launched in February 2015 and hosted NBL rivals at a Lhasa stadium at an altitude of over 3,600 meters.

The 2015 side featured players who had experience in either China's top league CBA or NBL, a second-flight league.

"There aren't many professional basketballers in Tibet and we would invite good players from the rest of the country," an unnamed Tibetan sports official was quoted by Chinese newspapers as saying.

In Tibet's NBL opener in July, Jingtu handed a 53-32 defeat to Nanjing Military Team, which under-performed while suffering a lack of oxygen. Endi