An interim agreement with the Chinese is okay. However, I took the "deal" to mean a trade with another NBA team.
Lemme see...one's a dwarf, one's a frozen treat and the other is a car part...who DO we trust? I'm hungry, so I'm gonna go with Pops personally.
Pops -- During this conversation, did the Rocket brass's evaluation of Ming come up? The debate is raging on this board among people who have seen the same clips who hold a wide range of opinions -- Ming will get tossed around like a rag doll, Ming has NBA skills you can't teach, Ming hasn't proved himself among real competition, Ming will make our offense deadly, Ming this, Ming that. What do the Rocket employees who are paid to evaluate prospects think? And yes, I'm hoping they'll validate my opinion ...