okay, now I know you're just making stuff up. When i went to the countryside with black people, it was usually the first black person they had ever seen in real life. here's a hint: citing wikipedia does not make you informed. China is a great place and I love it, but it is different from America in a lot of ways. I'm sorry that believing that the countries are different insults you personally somehow. I would recommend visiting China and living there and actually meeting some of the minorities in China before making assumptions about them. It's different, but that doesn't mean that it is bad there. And China being different does not reflect on your own identity so you shouldn't feel like you are being personally attacked. I'm done with you, I don't waste time with nationalists who don't even know the country they support outside of wikipedia.
Jeff Green will end up being one of the better players in this draft. I think he will be better suited for the Pro game than the college game unlike the players you listed as being better. They may not sign Lewis(I don't think they should) and if they keep Wally he will play SG. Durant and Green are interchangeable at the SF/PF position so their starting lineup will most likely be: West/Ridnour Wally/Wilkens Durant/Wally/Wilkens Green/Durant/Wilcox Wilcox/Swift If they don't like that then Wally will come off the bench and Durant and Green will be the SG/SF. Either way these kids are going to very fun to watch for many years. Also, getting Delonte West in the deal is a steal. Excellent move by the Sonics.
i'm tired of these little babies thinking they can select where they want to play...you are F@#@## rookie and you shold be bhappy anybody wants your a$$...its a privlidge to play bball and get paid for it and now these guys want to circumvent the draft system....totall BS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Politics and money go hand in hand and it's the same in this case! The Chinese Government has a great influence over Sport and it's sportsmen and women and the places in which they participate. If it's not in their interests to have Yi in Milwaukee then there will be reprecusions if the Milwaukee Club insists then I expect action. The problem is that it might even effect the status of Yoa Ming and further Chinese players coming to the NBA. Do not forget all the trouble taken by the Rockets and all the negotiating and placating of Chinese Interests done by Les,CD and Rudy. Milwaukee hasn't done any of this and this is the way it's done in China, if you want to do business with China you have to do it their way. If Milwaukee makes a hard stand or tries to change Yi's playing position then expect an equal and opposite counter move by China.
Would a kind fellow poster please tell me about Milwaukee ? What is it about that City that China could find objectionable? Even if it isa racial question I want to know about it. If it's racial then the next american player going to China should request the same treatment, just to show how crazy all of this is!!!
If Rox can get Yi, then we will have three starters in all star game next year. If he stays in Bucks, then they will have two. Yao vs. Yi, and TMac vs. M. Redd. That is the fact.
In American sports, the federal government does not exert pressure over individual competitive decisions at all. If the Chinese government tries to affect the NBA draft, I hope the NBA has the courage to tell them you know what. If players from any country want to play in the NBA, they must go through the draft process like everyone else. Any team can pick them and that's the way it is. If they don't like how Yi is used in Milwaukee, too bad. The worst thing the Chinese government could do is threaten repercussions on the NBA. The backlash in this country against them would be immense. If they prevented future Chinese players from coming into the NBA, it would be the same as cutting off their own noses to hurt somebody else.
Good one, cheetah. U.S.-led boycott of the 1980 Olympics in USSR being one, the handling of chess player Bobby Fischer is another example to bust the myth that U.S. government doesn't exert its influence over sports. As usual, apostolic3 is full of baloney.
It's very uncharacterstic of chinese to be as disrespectful to their elders as Yi is being here. He probably wasn't raised properly like Yao was - the "little emperor" syndrome, very sad.
seems like he is acting more like the asian steve francis. maybe yi is just trying to acclimate himself into american culture w/ his primadonna like behavior.
Regarding Yi Jianlian going to the Rockets, it ain't happening. Houston won't have enough assets to trade, unless they want to give up Shane Battier, future first round pick(s), and probably Luther Head for starters. A potential trade is just speculation for Rockets' fans that are grasping at straws for their PF position. And about this whole Yi saga in general, it's funny as hell that certain Americans and others are throwing such a hissy fit that Yi's group (gasp) wants him to go to a city with more Asians in it. In part, Yi's people want him to be in more familiar cultural surroundings, which would help his transition to life in a foreign country and the NBA in particular. But more significantly, it's all about maximizing his Asian marketing value and revenue--particularly from the perspective of his American agent Dan Fegan, who was effectively appointed by NIKE no less, which is a US corporation. You would think that in a Capitalist country like the USA--which never fails to preach to the world about the joys of its vaunted free market system--Americans would understand this desire to enhance Yi's marketing potential. But apparently, this is a moral outrage from the viewpoint of these fuming Amurikans. Personally, I think that Yi could possibly be better off in a low-pressure environment like Milwaukee, as opposed to being under a media microscope in Chicago, Boston, or LA. But you can't fault Yi's team for wanting to maximize his earning revenue and profile. That is what they're paid to do, last time I checked. On a side note, those people smugly lecturing about how "Chinese are racist" should check the mirror first. This generalization itself is racialist in nature and reflects the same stereotyping that is the basis of bigotry. Racism can be found in most countries and people the world over, in one form or another. For instance, America was literally built upon the enslavement of Africans, the genocide of Native Indians, not to mention the exploitation of Chinese "coolie labor" that constructed the railroads. Today, the USA is aggressively whipping up a coded anti-immigrant (White) nativism and "War Of Terror" nationalism directed against Arabs, Muslims, Latinos, and Asians among others. America has no moral legitimacy pointing its finger at any country on the issue of racism.
If you didn't know this, Big Mac retired a few years ago. Plus, Congress isn't questioning player rotations or draft choices. Try actually reading what I posted. There is something about "individual competitive decisions" that you may have missed. I knew a couple of you would instinctively react by trying to use the baseball steroids issue as an analogy.
