(Department of Physical Education,Henan Institute of Engineering Zhengzhou 451191,China) Abstract: By carrying out a comparative analysis on Chinese and American basketball cultural symbols, the author drew the following conclusion: differences between Chinese and American basketball cultural symbols rest with that China is lacking in a basketball culture symbol carrier at the current stage, showing no independent basketball spiri-tual cultural symbols nowadays, needed to make improvements in terms of perceived objective basketball culture symbol expression form as compared with America. The development of Chinese basketball culture should be based on the height of global development of sports culture; in terms of foreign communication, China should expand the scope of basketball culture; in terms of localized construction, China should increase the magnitude of basketball professionalization development; under the background of social advancement with the times, China should inno-vate the dimensions of basketball culture development. Key words: sports culture;Chinese and American basketball;cultural symbol |