Hope this is not an old link to Ming baggage: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/basketball/heat/sfl-ira26may26.column
I needed a thread to post this info about David Stern, which I read in the Chicago Tribune. Stern said the league would not help whatever team drafts Yao Ming in case there are complications with the government of China. But Stern said he told Yao's general manager: "Do you know how to spell Arvydas Sabonis? If that's what they want, a player who doesn't come to the NBA in his prime, then that's their decision."