OK, hopefully this analogy is not too far fetched. It's kind of like the stock market... Back in June, Yao Ming was a new biotech stock that just got a patent on some new technology. Michael Finley was Wal-Mart...slow, steady growth that should net a good, albeit not great, profit. High risk, high reward. To me, the potential of losing the tremendous profit of the biotech stock is more important than the minimal guaranteed success of Wal-Mart... now that I think about it, Wal Mart isn't doing so hot right now...
From which corner(s) was this trade rumored? And would Marky MarKuban have selected Yao -- or a 4th PG?