[CD] Yi Hardens Stance Against Bucks; Sina poll: 82% Say Yi Should Stay with Bucks

I'm divided on the issue. I'm not really in the Yi-STFU camp, because I can understand that as someone from China he would rather play somewhere with an Asian population above 20k. It's a much more difficult transition than foreign players from Europe or the Americas have to undergo, and that's tough enough. I don't know that US fans appreciate how difficult it can be.

On the flipside, I do agree that this is much more about Fegan trying to plant Yi in the LA, Bay Area, or NY market in order to bring in heavy endorsement money. I'm fairly certain that the total money difference between Milwaukee and those spots is massive.

If I'm running the Bucks, I'd throw in the towel. They're desperate to bring in the potential revenue that Yi represents (sort of how Yao is Les' cash cow) much more than they are thinking he might help them win, but at this point they may want to see if they can't wring GS for major return. Yi as a Warrior would be a huge boon for for both Fegan/Yi and Golden State. If they're willing to pony up a king's ransom for him, get it.

Evan

 

Yi and his agent wanted him to play in a large market, or city with a large Asian population. That would include LA, the Bay Area, NYC, Chicago, Houston, etc. I bet the Bucks could get some good value if they trade him to a team.

 

Yi is acting like a baby, he should just sign a rookie contract and play for bucks for three years. After that , he can go to any team he pleases if he is any good. If he is not good, no one will care in three years.

 

Grow some balls Yi! This dude have yet to give the Milwakee Bucks a chance and already his ego is going off the roof. Who cares if there are mimimal asian population in Milwakee, you're making millions already!

 

the whole wanting to play in a city with asians is silly. its not like greg oden demanded he be traded to miami just so he can be in a city with a lot of old people.

 

why are you insulting the overseas-ers?
you think they want to watch scrubs play?
they want to see professionals, like Yao Ming, Tracy McGrady, Luis Scola, and..

STEVE

FRANCIS!!!!!

 

Agree or disagree with Yi, what he is doing is squarely within the framework of the draft. Milwaukee took on certain risk in taking this path, so is Yi.

If I'm Yi, I might do the same thing. It's my life, my career.

If Stern wants to prevent this, then change the rules.

 

Seattle isn't a small city though dude. It's bigger than San Antonio (market and metro wise, which is what counts).

 

not exactly.
I see it as merely a compromise, theres something out of Yi's control, Yi has the least power over all these request trade crap. Think about it, a player wants to play in NBA but he has to be released from his previous "wanna make money" club, he can either stand up for himself and risk his whole career(not released by Guangdong Hongyuan) or, in the case, he chose to be Mum's good boy --- trust me, he will never have the balls to do something against Fegan/Guangdong Hongyuan until he signs the contract with whatever NBA team.

 

So can the Rox get Yi cheap by trading Milwakee Head and JLIII?

No way Yi will decline playing on a team with Yao

 

Yi sucks, no Yi on the Rox.

 

LOL ... listen to this.

http://www.espn1510.com/includes/news_items/8/789/cmonyi.mp3

 

You mean some best basketball

 

No, I meant THE best basketball league in the world.

Well, no. City limit populations are irrelevant first of all. If you took city limits into account, then San Antonio would be bigger than Dallas. Go to both cities, and tell me which one is bigger?

The official census is taken every 10 years with the last one being in 2000 and the next in 2010. However, many agencies will be able to estimate a population of a given region using sophisticated interpolation techniques. The official 2000 Seattle population is 563,374. It's estimated that the 2006 population is about 580,000. Through the years, Seattle proper's population has gone up and down ever so slightly but bottom line hasn't changed much for decades. It's hourglass figure geographically probably prohibits much land area expansion as the city limit lines haven't changed in years also.

These are estimates directly from the U.S. Census Bureau so probably better to use these figures than the ones I previously cited. Thanks, marksind.

Seattle metropolitan area: 3.26 million

Increase since 2000: 219,612

But anyway..Yi, you should play.

 

What? I don't get it. They signed Durant because he is suppose to be the next MJ and he is GOOD. He could have went to Fargo, North Dakota and Nike would have signed him (yes I know Fargo has no basketball team).

 

i don't get it... do chinese people cheer louder at basketball games or something? i doubt the majority of chinese people in the US even care about some dude playin Bball.
Yi is stupid. if i was a bucks fan and even if he ended up being a buck... i would Boo him.