The Chinese Want Yi Jianlian to Sign With Bucks
Plus: The salary cap is set, and Darius’s good deed.
-The (Chinese) people have spoken: A online poll recently revealed that 68% of the 9,000 people that were polled want Yi Jianlian to sign with the Bucks.
“Fegan will hamper Yi’s future,” former national team coach Qian Chenghai was quoted as saying in yesterday’s state-run China Daily newspaper. “I don’t think Yi refused to join the Bucks; it is Fegan who doesn’t want him to join.
“We don’t want to see Yi destroy his reputation in the NBA and return to the Chinese Basketball Association. That’s horrible.”
(Listen to your peoples, Yi.)
-The NBA’s salary cap has been set at $55.63 million. It went up by about $2.5 million from last season’s cap.
-The Wizards and DeShawn Stevenson aren’t seeing eye to eye on a new deal. According to the WaPo, the team is offering $15 million over four years, but DeShawn wants something in the $18 million range.
Stevenson, who turned down a three-year, $10 million offer from the Orlando Magic last summer, earned just less than $1 million last season.
(Hopefully, DeShawn and his agent won’t be dumb enough to make the same mistake twice.)
-Seattle says goodbye to ‘Shard.
-Henry Abbott doesn’t think James “Flight” White is a good fit for the Spurs organization:
I have a feeling that James White won’t make it big as a Spur. He has been marinating in their culture for several months now, and he’s still calling for the ball all the time. playing only OK defense, and shaking his head every time a teammate fails to send him an alley-oop lob. I’m no expert on Spurs culture, but from what I have seen in the regular season, that is not it.
(All together now: Free Flight!)
-Darius Miles is a good dude. He is paying for the funeral and memorial services of a 5-year old boy who was killed in freak camping accident (Via: Blazer’s Edge):
“We were all so shocked by this,” a family friend, Margi Seitz, tells the Tigard Times. “He was touched by this story … only the Lord knows why (Miles) has chosen to do this, but it is very much needed and greatly appreciated. There really are no words.”
35 Responses to “The Chinese Want Yi Jianlian to Sign With Bucks”
Jul.11 at 11:17 am
KICKZ101 says:
First!
Jul.11 at 11:22 am
dez says:
Darius Miles is still alive?
Jul.11 at 11:33 am
Lang Whitaker says:
If Stephen Jackson could fit in with the Spurs, James White is going to be just fine.
Jul.11 at 12:03 pm
Detroit11 says:
Does anyone know why exactly Miles hasn’t played in more than a year? Is he still injured?
Jul.11 at 12:04 pm
Co Co says:
Free Flight! I follow directions Mutoni!
Jul.11 at 12:14 pm
Cheryl says:
Flight’s skills would probably benefit from staying in SanAn, but he’d sure be fun to watch in the Yay!
Jul.11 at 12:25 pm
Reggie Evans says:
Reminiscing about James White in “Ball Above All”
Jul.11 at 12:30 pm
RV says:
Francis was bought out for 30 million, gotta love the NBA..
Jul.11 at 12:53 pm
DP says:
Miles is probably getting his life together now. Maybe the Blazers should give him another chance. I don’t think they will but maybe he will find a team that appreciates him because he has been the biggest waist of talent I have ever seen in my life. play wit it.
Jul.11 at 1:31 pm
whooo! says:
what to do we need to do to makes sure flight’s in the dunk contest?! i just hope he actually makes their roster so he’s eligible. if he actually played that’d be nice too, but maybe that’s askin a lot.
Jul.11 at 1:55 pm
Greased Up Deaf Guy aka Clay Davis says:
flight, the shocker, ai2, and young dwight.
Jul.11 at 1:59 pm
Tariq says:
It’s nice to hear stories like Darius’s. On another note, what is it with people on this site and catchphrases? “Play wit it”, “ASPOV”…etc. If that’s the case, I’m introducing my own catch-phrase: “I bomb atomically, Socrates philosophies indicate that everything in the world is a mere reflection of its counterpart in the world of Ideas. Have you driven a Foooord late-ly? Whatcha talkin bout, Willis?” Play witH it.
Jul.11 at 2:00 pm
Tariq says:
Hey, where have all the KG rumors gone? “I bomb atomically, Socrates philosophies indicate that everything in the world is a mere reflection of its counterpart in the world of Ideas. Have you driven a Foooord late-ly? Whatcha talkin bout, Willis?”
Jul.11 at 2:07 pm
DP says:
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. mere words cannot describe how funny tariq is. play wit it.
Jul.11 at 2:08 pm
Tariq says:
Thanks DP.
“I bomb atomically, Socrates philosophies indicate that everything in the world is a mere reflection of its counterpart in the world of Ideas. Have you driven a Foooord late-ly? Whatcha talkin bout, Willis?”
Jul.11 at 2:48 pm
Greased Up Deaf Guy aka Clay Davis says:
i think tariq is gonna stick with it
Jul.11 at 2:59 pm
Tariq says:
Clay Davis: Where’s the beef?
Jul.11 at 3:08 pm
Greased Up Deaf Guy aka Clay Davis says:
sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet, i like your catch-paragraph tariq
Jul.11 at 3:09 pm
Greased Up Deaf Guy aka Clay Davis says:
are the blazers counting on darius to play well next year, it could happen
Jul.11 at 3:20 pm
Tariq says:
Oh, good. Na-bis-coooo!
Jul.11 at 3:44 pm
Russ Bengtson says:
9,000 Chinese? That’s like .0000007 percent of the population. In related news, I just took an informal poll of New Yorkers that revealed 100 percent of them thought the Zach Randolph trade was a bad idea: I asked myself.
Jul.11 at 3:52 pm
Jeremy says:
Yi should join Bucks and change his agent too.
Jul.11 at 4:07 pm
Silky Slim says:
Marcel, I would like to think that DeShawn Stevenson won’t make the same mistake twice, but you never know. Man, I forgot about Darius Miles. D. Miles should’ve been a finalist for The Marmaduke Award this year!
Jul.11 at 4:21 pm
H to the izzo says:
Russ when can we expect that interview with yourself?
Jul.11 at 4:33 pm
Air Yi says:
68% of 9000 of voters represent the whole chinese basketball fans? thatz the dumbest thing I heard last couple days. Did Larry Harris pay realgm n espn to give out pressure to Yi? Me as chinese will never *want* him to sign with the bucks.I wouldn’t mind it if thatz the only way Yi could play in NBA , but by no means this is *Want* or any kind of urgency.
Jul.11 at 4:49 pm
Gord says:
That was amazing Russ ahahhahahahahahha
Jul.11 at 5:20 pm
Russ Bengtson says:
Izzo: I only asked myself the one question, and it was a yes or no answer, so the transcript is pretty boring.
Jul.11 at 6:23 pm
Tariq says:
Russ: How do you feel now that I know that you’re white after years of thinking you were black? Anything different? How has your life changed? (Byyyy Mennen)
Jul.11 at 9:38 pm
2G40 says:
Tariq, how the hell could you think Russ was black? That’s funny on so many levels…
Jul.11 at 10:39 pm
FLUXLAND says:
Tariq … very funny dude. I like the byyyy mennen… HHAHAHAHHA!
Jul.11 at 11:35 pm
slim says:
Yi has a billion ppl on his shoulders…I don’t think he’ll be THAT much of a Darko
Jul.11 at 11:45 pm
Mongoose says:
Please let Darius and Q Rich get back together in NY. They were the best teammates since Cuttino and Francis.(No Amaeci)
Jul.12 at 2:49 am
Joel O's says:
“Best teammates”? Do you mean that with a tinge of sarcasm? Those two um “duos” are what we used to call, when I was in the army, “s*** c*** buddies” (rhymes with Duck Sock)
Jul.12 at 4:25 am
Chukaz says:
I think that Darius Miles will be out of the league for good after next season. He never had that much game and relied on athletic ability to do sh*t onthe court. Since he had microfracture knee surgery on both knees, he better get used to not playing (he’s probably used to it already. Even when he could play he couldn’t get on the court). It’s kinda sad ’cause Darius had gotten to a pretty good start a couple of years ago and when he returned from injury he was back to his normal self.
Jul.12 at 10:23 am
yang says:
oh yeah, i am chinese , i knew situation right now, yi and his agent is being nuts……
most of fans here china,thought they were foolish.