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BEIJING， Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- With the 2016-2017 Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) regular season on the books， the first-round of playoff action， dubbed ""the most intense in history，"" is set to start on Friday.


In the coming best-of-five CBA first round， the bottom half teams need to display their A-game to avoid elimination， while the top seeds will rely on