Just read this on ESPN Insider: "This could be posturing by the CBA and the Sharks in an attempt to get Yao to pay the Sharks more in a buyout. If Yao's representatives can't work out a buyout for Yao before Wednesday, there's still a chance the Rockets could balk on drafting Yao No. 1. To make matters worse for Yao, the Fort Worth Star Telegram is reporting today that Wang Zhi Zhi is defecting from China. "He's already missed two deadlines to return to China," a source told the Star Telegram. "Whether they want to say it's a defection or not, and his guy, Simon Chan, will say it's not, they've been given ultimatums, and they refused to go back. . . He's defected, but he wants to make it seems like it's not a defection. They're playing a very dangerous bargaining game right now."
