Bucks sign 3 players, what about Yi?

They'll sign him when he's ready to sign.

 

The Bucks signing Williams may help us out.. one less guard on the market for the Heat, who are in desperate need of one while we have a surplus.

 

I don't think Yi will play in Milwaukee. All he has to do is sit out a single year and re-enter the draft. At which point, you better believe the team who picks him will be a team he's approved.

 

If yi trys to sit out a year and then reenter then the nba should not draft him. He hasnt really proven himself and I dont think its fair that just because of Yaos success he gets special treatment.

 

exactly. just watch for pargo, boykins, and knight. if they find thier way to other teams the heat may get desperate.

hopefully the hornets sign pargo, the clipps sign knight or boykins, and whoever the clipps don't sign will choose between the heat and pacers. whichever team loses out will have to trade for rafer. the rockets should end up with either foster or haslem hopefully.

now back to YI:

first of all, i can't stop saying this - what a dumb move by the bucks to draft him.

Yi is not going to sit out a whole year, and if the bucks refuse to trade him then he will sign...reluctantly. i see him playing for them this year, but continuing to demand a trade.

-by playing well for the bucks he will spark other teams interest to trade for him.
-by continuing to demand a trade he will be a team distraction and eventually the bucks will have to trade him.

the bucks get something in return (better than yi re-entering the draft next year), and Yi gets to play this season.

works for all.

 

Yi should suck it up and play out his rookie contract. If he is any good, he can enter the FA market and go to any team he likes. If he is no good, what difference does it make then?

 

hopefully pargo will go to greece

http://www.superbasket.gr/print.php?a=4932

 

Bucks really should have just tried to immediately trade him to GS, LAL, or NYK on draft day. I honestly think they got greedy and wanted him to be a revenue cash cow like Yao is for us. Now, it's a no-win situation and they look dumb regardless.

I doubt Yi will have any kind of immediate impact. Yao came into the league skinny, but with legs already like tree trunks. Yi's just a rail and will get killed on the boards unless he's 10x more tenacious than I've seen.

My bet is on a holdout that extends at least into October.

Evan

 

LOL.. if Yi does decide to sit out the year and reenter the NBA draft, then there should be an agreement that whoever's got the last pick in the second round should just give the pick to the Bucks, who then uses this pick to redrafts him.

Then repeat this exercise year after year until Yi finally signs.

 

Now that Mason and Williams have signed, the Bucks are focusing on Charlie Bell. After Bell signs, all attention will be on Yi.

 

The NBA should institute a rule that says if a player doesn't play for the team that drafts him, he should be banned from the league. At least for a few years. If a player isn't willing to play for whoever drafts him, he should do something else with his career. I have very little sympathy for multi millionaires and billionaires when business deals don't go perfectly for them, but if someone invests in an NBA team, they shouldn't have to take this kind of crap from people like Yi and Francis who put themselves before the team before they even play one minute of NBA basketball. Take the millions of dollars they are trying to give you and STFU until your contract is up.

 

Can Yi really re-enter the draft next year or do the Bucks reserve his rights for a few years?

Luis Scola was drafted in 2002 but the Spurs still had his draft rights. Is this different?

 

If Yi sits out a whole year without playing for anybody then i believe he can re-enter the draft.

 

I'm not really sure, but I think he has to not play pro ball for a year, then I think he'll get his draft rights back.

 

I don't really see how the CNT and/or Tigers will allow him to sit out a year especially if the 2008 Olympics coming up. Yi is painting himself into a corner.

 

I'm with you on this. I've been saying this all along. The Bucks drafted Yi because they want revenue from China. They wanted it so bad that they ignored the fact he wouldn't come work out for them and had said he wouldn't play for them. Now they look like idiots. I could have understood it pre-Fran Vazquez and Vassillis Spanoulis, but not after. Now we know some foreign born players will just stay (or go back) overseas if they aren't happy with the situation.

The Bucks got greedy and are getting what they deserve. I feel bad for their fans.

 

noway. Team of Yi is stupid but not that stupid.

 

What's stupid about it? I can remember Jim Jackson sitting out a year in contract negotiations with Dallas.

If he goes to Milwaukee and they don't decide to trade him, he's stuck there for a minimum of four years before he can be an unrestricted free agent. Which would you do if you had a choice between sitting out a year or being some place you don't want to be for four years? I'd sit it out and get the situation I want.

 

Amen.