Can Yao Now Sign Our Players and Have Them All Play For His Team?

Yao owns the Shanghai Sharks.

Yao is now retired.

Wouldn't it be great if our guys could just play together and get paid by Yao to play in China? Maybe Rick could coach? Haha.

And when the NBA starts up, we would be the fastest-starting team in the league.

Discuss.

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Scola prefers Yao Ming's land as a destination if the NBA season does not start because of the lockout. "It's a more open market, it has so much potential and the country is appealing to me," he told Ole. Ole

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In his last visit to China, Luis Scola was asked which Chinese team would he play with. "I see myself playing with the Shanghai Sharks because Yao is the owner of the team." Ole

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3 guys? So how about Scola, Lowry, and Martin. Most guys claim they want to play for the burn/run and not money. Plus, yao has gotten or can get them shoe deal money. Guys under contract need to have out-clauses so it should be too much of an expense. Imagine the fanfare that team would get in China?

 

Apollo, who cares about the rest of the league? Yao wants to win!

And what better 'coaches' for China then these cerebral players/stars to teach the other players / help the real coaches.

I think if these three took their talents to Shanghai - others would follow. China's leagues are weak. I don't think it would be a problem cutting some guys to make room for 3 Americans per team. And china has the money and the market. It could be a win, win.

 

Why are some decent teams in Europe doing it then? You don't think there would be any value of having cerebral, hard-working guys who are in there prime like scola and Lowry around the coaching staff and players even if it's for a few months?

I'm sure that would have a positive influence whether it's implementing a few NBA plays or just showing the Chinese players what it takes to be successful.

We are talking about cutting or not-resigning the bottom 3 players on a team in China. What's the big deal? Bad team. Bad league.

Billy Hunter said that if guys are currently under contract in the NBA then they would have to return once the lockout finishes. So there are a lot of better teams and leagues, renting NBA players during this lockout.

 

Hopefully, they'd do that if the team actually misses real games.

Maybe they could even meet up other teams and follow out the schedule that the NBA so nicely created!