CBA all-star game starting lineups announced

The Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) has announced the starting lineups for the All-Star game.

The Liaoning Flying Leopards' guard Guo Ailun will lead the northern team while big man Yi Jianlian of the Guangdong Southern Tigers will lead the south squad.

The starting lineups for CBA All-Star game. [Photo: CGTN]

Joining Guo on the north team are Han Dejun, Zhai Xiaochuan, Abdusalam Abdurixit, and Fang Shuo. Along with Yi for the south are Wang Zhelin, Hu Jinqiu, Zhao Rui and Wu Qian. Yi received the most votes for the second year in a row with 519, 288. The all-star weekend will be held from June 12 to 13.

Yi Jianlian makes a jump shot during the CBA regular season game between Guangdong and Xinjiang on Jan 1, 2019 in Urumqi. Yi pocketed 23 points and 12 rebounds in the game but Guangdong lost the game 130-126. [Photo: VCG]

The previous year's All-star game saw former NBA player Yi Jianlian being named MVP. He notched up a game-high 28 points and eight dunks to power the South to a 147-138 win over the North in the 2017-2018 Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) All-Star game in Shenzhen. It was eight years since all 10 starters were Chinese in an All-Star game.

Yu Dehao of Shenzhen had won the Skills Challenge and Yu Changchun took the Three-Point Shootout with 24 points in 2018.