How do you feel about this Yi vs the Bucks thing?

When you are about to find a job, do you give the employers 100% control over where you go? Yi obviously has some leverage in his talents so more power to him.

Guys, we live in a capitalistic free market country, not some communist country, we have freedom!!

 

Uhh I would rather live in Vancouver than Milwaukee, and I think if there was a poll it would be 50-50 or Vancouver would win.

 

yi is a little b****- im mad at him. I cant believe that he would try to pull something like that. It is not fair for some unproven kid to come in and make demands about where and for whom to play for. kobe, tmac, AI, etc are all different. this kid is no john elway, hell, he may not even become an eli manning, so he shouldnt demand this. he has no right to. its the nba, kid. show your good enough, then the demands. i hope stern pulls out his whip on this one and shows him that this is business.

and also, isnt it true that he didnt work out with any teams? so then wouldnt that mean that any team that drafted him would be looking to capitalize on the chinese market? bah.

 

Why not? I seem to remember when Glen Robinson came into the league and demanded the highest payment ever afforded to a rookie. NBA changed to a two tier pay system after that. A player is just gonna try to get the max he can get. Glen if I recall was a holdout until the money was there.

 

no that's not true. He worked out for a lot of teams but the Bucks were not one of them. They were not invited.

 

It can't be all THAT bad for Yi. I mean he get to play along side of Michael Redd. He should ask Bogut about life in Milwaukee, if he can take it then so can Yi. Also Charlie V can teach him a thing or two.

So what if there aren't any Asian population in Milwaukee? Not like he'll be frolicking amongst them everyday. And white chicks are hot.. what's the problem? Hell, my ex gf lives there, I can hook it up... she's really hot.

 

And don't forget that Robert Horry visits there at least once a year....and if you put the word Milwaukee against a mirror, it spells "Tomjonavich"

 

Bucks won't give up Yi. There's too much money involved. As long as they have Yi, sponsors trying to crack into or are already in the chinese market, will be pouring in the sponsership money. Bucks owner will look over at the Rockets and his mind will be made up.

Nike can suck eggs.

 

Milwaukee knew exactly what they were getting themselves into, they could have avoided this situation real easily by drafting someone else. It's not like Yi came out after he got selected and said "no thanks." Yi's team denied the Bucks a workout and specifically told them not to draft him. One of their scouts even came out and said, "if he doesn't want to play for us...he can go back to China."

Now the Bucks are stuck in a position where they have a player that has publicily made it known that he doesn't want to play for them, therefore diminishing trade value (ex: Steve Francis).

 

lets get yi in here and darko to back him up = D

 

Not necessarily. Companies aren't going to pour sponsorship money into a place with no market. Yi is a very marketable guy, but you're not going to see Chinese beer companies wanting to sponsor the Bucks just because he's on the team.

Furthermore, the Bucks games don't get games nationally televised and still won't just because Yi is there. That is a huge factor when it comes to sponsorships.

 

I'm sure the Bucks games will be televised a lot more in China from here on out if they keep Yi. News on them will also be often seen on websites. Before nobody gives a shi$ in China about the Bucks, now it's totally different. Regardless of how Yi plays, his mere presence will draw huge amount of interest from China's basketball audience in the first two years. Expect Chinese company's ads to pop up in the Bucks arena. The Bucks should hold on to Yi, there's no way he'd go back to China. I feel Yi is also being pressured into this by his agents and big companies. It's a temporary situation I hope.

 

And the Grlzzlies were idiots for trading Francis for 25 cents on the dollar. That trade was robbery. All they got was Dickerson and a bunch of deadweight contracts.

The Bucks absolutely should keep him and play hardball with the Chinese. What's Yi going to do? Even if he goes back to China, the Bucks hold his draft rights so he has no shot of ever getting into the NBA unless its through the Bucks.

Not to mention the owner of the Bucks is a US senator and I'm sure he can play hardball with the Chinese too.

Plus I have the feeling that the Chinese government, CBA, and Yi's agent are pushing this Milwaukee boycott more than Yi is.

I'm sure it will blow over. The Bucks aren't going to be panzies like the Grizzlies.

 

Tony Parker and Yi Jianling are two different situations.

Yi is a potential big markter in China and he needs to do well in NBA. A lot of stakes involved in Yi's situation.

Whereas Tony Parker was relatively unknown, also the spurs was a championship team.

You are comparing apple to orange here.

 

Are you serious? Yao has been dissed left and right on this board for being too humble and refusing to take over the team. Guys have been begging Yao to become more arrogant, get more selfish and develop an me-first attitude. But you seem to be very proud of a humble Yao here. By the way, were you one of the people who bashed Yao for lacking an arrogant and mean streak?

 

The fact that China is trying to milk cash off the NBA/Yi isn't really a reason for the Bucks to trade him.