http://sports.sina.com.cn/k/2004-07-13/2130995559.shtml According to this, Yao Ming's best buddy in Chinese National Team, Liu Wei will joining Sacramento Kings's summer camp right after Olympic. Liu Wei is a PG for CNT, and playing with Yao for more than 10 years, and know how to feed him the ball well. It also stated that Liu Wei will play for Kings when they vs. Houston Rockets in China on OCT. 14th What do you think about Liu, is he good enough to survive in NBA Rockets sign him as back up
and what's kings looking for?????Let him play against Rockets on OCT. 14 to get Chinese support of kings??? OCT. 14: Rockets Yao vs. Kings Liu, will that sell more tickets to Chinese??????
we have a 10 page thread about guy who has never played for the rockets announcing he is not playing for the rockets and the relevance of this thread is questioned
Guess what? you were right. They were trying to explore the Asian market. On 2002, Sean Chen of Taiwan was invited to Kings' summer camp and stayed a short period in their pre-season roster. Last year, the Yuta Tabuse of Japan experienced the same thing. None of these players were NBA calibrate players. They are not aiming at one game. It's the whole markets for next 20 or 50 years. And it's not just the Kings. The NBA's revenue was declining in the US.
If Rocket signed him as the third string point guard (though we have three third string point guards), it will be lucartive for Yao to stay for the fifth year. This guy is not a shooter, not very atheletic but he got chemistry with Yao.