Yi’s Chinese Team Hates Milwaukee
Plus: Amare worries about his brother.
-The Guangdong Tigers, Yi Jianlian’s Chinese team, do not want him in Milwaukee.
“This is not — as media reports have said — because Milwaukee, as a city with very few Chinese people, is not good for Yi’s commercial development,” team chief Chen Haitao said.
“Rather we want to find a team suitable for Yi’s growth. That’s the root of the problem,” he added.
“The national team and the Olympic Games are now our key considerations … If [Yi] goes to a team where he can’t compete, that would be being irresponsible to the national team,” Chen said.
(My favorite thing about this whole messy situation? That Eazy Yi seemingly isn’t allowed to speak for himself. I find that simply awesome.)
-Tony Parker and Eva Longoria are not allowed to procreate. Yet. (Via: With Leather)
Actress Eva Longoria has reportedly been hit with a baby ban by the producers of hit TV show Desperate Housewives for fear of ruining their scripts.
She says, “We’re fine with that. We want to spend some time with each other, even though we want kids very much.”
(Does this mean the sex ban is still on?)
-Amare Stoudemire is dealing with his little brother’s troubles with the law. Marwan Williams, Amare’s half-brother, was one of five people arrested on July 4th in what police believed to be a botched drug heist.
“It’s a little disappointing,” Stoudemire said. “All I can do is put my prayers out there and hope everything works out for the best.”
-Some dude named Cheikh Samb has been signed by the Pistons. Can you tell that it’s an extremely slow news day?
91 Responses to “Yi’s Chinese Team Hates Milwaukee”
Jul.17 at 11:23 am
Hisham says:
Ik heb als eerste gepost!!! Joepie! Echt voor het eerst ooit dat ik ergens eerste in ben
Jul.17 at 11:24 am
Hisham says:
betekent “Your comment is awaiting moderation” dat ik misschien wel niet als eerste ben?
Jul.17 at 11:25 am
Hisham says:
dat zou jammer zijn
Jul.17 at 11:25 am
Hisham says:
nog meer nederlanders hier?
Jul.17 at 11:26 am
H to the izzo says:
Check my blog to see why I hate Yi.
Jul.17 at 11:27 am
maddskizzle says:
first!
Jul.17 at 11:37 am
Frees says:
Yi should go to Milwalkee…just think of the marketing opportunites for Sapporo
Jul.17 at 11:46 am
Adrian says:
Isn’t Sapporo Japanese?
Jul.17 at 11:54 am
Sam Rubenstein says:
Man, ABC keeps Eva on a shorter leash than Popovich keeps Tony.
Jul.17 at 11:55 am
Russ Bengtson says:
Given Amare’s family’s continuous legal troubles (moms has had her share of widely publicized problems) are we sure he wasn’t adopted? And I’m officially completely sick of Yi. I don’t care what team he winds up on, hopefully he’s a complete and utter failure. Stay in Guangdong, jerk. (Hey Mutoni, I hate Milwauee, too. What is it?)
Jul.17 at 11:57 am
Booyakasha says:
50 cent oughta just play in Milwaukee. If you’re good enough, you’ll have an “opportunity to grow.”
Jul.17 at 11:59 am
H to the izzo says:
Russ that comment about Yi makes me happy.Yi can stay where he is.I hope he decides to test the free agency anf finds that there is no interest in him
Jul.17 at 12:03 pm
Ken H says:
There are 1250 Chinese people in Milwaukee out of almost 600000 people. That’s like the lowest Chinese percentage ever…
Jul.17 at 12:09 pm
dez says:
Who gives a crap what Yi, Milwaukee, or the Chinese Nat’l team says about anything?
Not I
Jul.17 at 12:24 pm
Co Co says:
Well if he’s just looking for a large Chinese population to play in front of shouldn’t he just play in China forever? I think they have the largest, but I’d have to check.
Jul.17 at 12:30 pm
John says:
I haven’t really said much about the Yi situation so far, but I’ll shed some light for you young fellows. I don’t think it’s Yi’s opinion at all that he shouldn’t be playing in Milwaukee. He’s from a comunistic government that basically wants to get him in a city where he will bring the most money possible to China. This is complete bullsh*t that people are blaming Yi. He really has no say in the matter. If he was an American player then he would have the option to fire his representatives and just play ball, but if he does that with his reps then the consequences for him would be even worse.
Jul.17 at 12:37 pm
Frees says:
Touche Aidrian….Touche
Jul.17 at 12:37 pm
Russ Bengtson says:
Yi’s not 12 years old, is he? I understand that the Chinese government and his “handlers” are playing a huge role in this, but he IS an adult. I’m going to continue disliking him, if that’s OK with you. And Co Co: well played.
Jul.17 at 12:39 pm
Cheryl says:
Funny, Co Co. I think you have the best idea yet for Mr. Yi.
Jul.17 at 12:40 pm
Matt Sergent says:
Next year staring on Desperate Housewives we get the first desperate househusband…
Jul.17 at 12:40 pm
Co Co says:
Oh poor little misguided Yi. He entered the draft so he should play for whomever drafted him. Yi and his handlers can kick rocks! No one in this country is going to be completely devastated if we don’t get to see another 7 ft jumpshooter in the league this season. There’ll be more to come in due time.
Jul.17 at 12:41 pm
Co Co says:
Thanks I’ll be here all week.
Jul.17 at 12:45 pm
DP says:
Yi needs to come to Memphis so I can see him play up close and in person. There are a whole bunch of China town people moving to the South anyway so it would be simple perfect for him.play wit it.
Jul.17 at 12:47 pm
John says:
DP, what do you mean by “play wit it”? I’ve seen you use that phrase a bunch of times and it just doesn’t make sense.
Jul.17 at 12:48 pm
bootlace says:
Communism is a helluva drug..
Jul.17 at 1:00 pm
Russ Bengtson says:
This whole incident is a blow to Laverne & Shirley fans everywhere.
Jul.17 at 1:01 pm
Max Airington says:
“Yi’s gonna make it after all!”
Jul.17 at 1:15 pm
Russ Bengtson says:
This is just like when the American government didn’t want Steve Francis to play in Canada!
Jul.17 at 1:16 pm
Bryant Reeves says:
Are there really that many teams in the NBA where Yi would get significant playing time in his first year? Don’t all the reports on this kid say that he has a long way to go before being a quality player? Maybe China is just afraid that he’ll end up as another Wang and not another Yao
Jul.17 at 1:18 pm
mutoni says:
when i was putting the post together, i felt that making commie jokes would be in bad taste. good to see that i was wrong.
Jul.17 at 1:20 pm
John says:
Russ, your last comment made the corners of my mouth rise to an angle of 30 degrees on each side.
Jul.17 at 1:22 pm
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Jul.17 at 1:24 pm
h-wag says:
If you saw the Yi interview right after he was drafted you should know why he isn´t speaking for himself anymore…
Jul.17 at 1:26 pm
mutoni says:
his chat with stuart scott was the worst 30 seconds of my life.
Jul.17 at 1:28 pm
Russ Bengtson says:
At least one of them should have had an interpreter.
Jul.17 at 1:30 pm
Russ Bengtson says:
Also, if this is about playing time, the Bucks should trade Yi to the New York Liberty. Or the Bakersfield Jam.
Jul.17 at 1:35 pm
Mark says:
Frees says:
“Yi should go to Milwalkee…just think of the marketing opportunites for Sapporo ” Japanese - not Chinese. This is exactly the “American” attitude that gets Andrew Bogut fired up!
Jul.17 at 1:42 pm
Ken H says:
Go Canada! hahaha
Exactly Mark, boo Americans.
Jul.17 at 1:43 pm
Ken H says:
This Yi should go to the Raptors. Toronto’s full of Chinese people! Him and Bargnani can becoem 7 foot jump shooting buddies
Jul.17 at 1:54 pm
Mr. Bob Dobolina says:
Chinese National Team,
You know what would be really irresponsible?
Forcing an athletic 7-footer to stay in China.
This is like a parent forcing their 16 year old to play in a 13-year old league: the kid may dominate, but who’s pushing him?
Jul.17 at 2:16 pm
The Spin says:
Of course Yi’s team hates Milwaukee! It was a very rookie move drafting him. If they were smart, they would have traded him on draft night and got the proper value for him. Oh well. At least they retained Mo Williams. I still can’t believe this guy is going back to the Bucks. What’s wrong with winning a championship in Miami? I wrote up on this. Check it at www.clutch3.com
Jul.17 at 2:37 pm
Ryu says:
Yi to Memphis? Good idea, at least Rudy Gay would have the opportunity to dunk on him (strictly with two hands) every day, like on Yi’s first game of Summer League 2007.
Jul.17 at 2:53 pm
Chukaz says:
I don’t think that Eva’s baby ban actually matters because I don’t think that Pops would let Tony have sex. It’s just a shame that there will be no tape, ya dig?
Jul.17 at 3:41 pm
Mo Charlo says:
There’s no German people in Dallas, but Irk (no D, for determination) still did fine. There’s also no French people in San Antonio, but I guess that’s different, since TP has a completely platonic friendship with a quasi-local (Eva’s from Corpus Christi, about an hour and a half down the road).
Jul.17 at 3:47 pm
Chukaz says:
I think it would be great if Easy Yi would say something like what Ichiro said. I can totally see it now. “If I ever find myself saying I’m exited about going to Milwaukee, I would punch myself in the face because I would be lying”.
Jul.17 at 3:53 pm
dj says:
damn russ, easy on the Yi haterade.
It’s nice and easy for us americans to call him out and say, “you’re an adult, make your own decisions” but in many /OTHER/ places in this world grown-assed men are routinely told what to do by others, and they have no choice but to obey. its what happens when DEMOCRACY isn’t present. (see tianamen square, circa 1989) anyhow, i dont see how anyone is his right mind could think that Yi is turning down guarenteed millions and a chance to play in the L just because he’s a “jerk” or “malcontent”, etc. Even true (american) holdouts like Kobe or Francis wouldn’t have risked their chance to play in the League over what team they were going to, if it had gotten down to that. i hope this post wasn’t way to political.
Jul.17 at 4:02 pm
Russ Bengtson says:
I understand all that, dj. I just wish that whoever’s pulling Yi’s strings realized that this is the WORST way to introduce him to the NBA and America. At this rate the only people buying his jerseys are gonna be the ones who want to burn them.
Jul.17 at 4:13 pm
dj says:
@ Russ
I totally agree. I just hope that the Sternbot takes this one chance to use his vast, dictator-like powers for a more noble use (than fining players for long shorts, etc). If foreign governments can essentially dictate to american companies (what teams really are) how they should conduct business (the draft = business), I think someone has to step in. (and it is the chinese gov’t, not Yi’s Guangdong team, who are the real actors - see reference to the national team and Olympics)
Jul.17 at 4:55 pm
slate says:
Memo to all future Chinese basketball players who want to enter THE UNITED STATES NBA DRAFT:You don’t get to choose where you play,it’s a DRAFT,you chose to put your name in the ring.Nobody begged you to be a part of this.You won’t get comp anywhere else in the world,so I suggest the chinese government stop ya belly aching let your boy play for the team he was drafted for and represent Milwaukee AND his country with pride and honor,or else you know what? The next Asian Sensation just won’t get drafted at all and can spend his entire career playing for the dragons and becoming the chinese basketball version of Sadahara Oh (look it up).Thought y’all were communist ,follow the rules.
Jul.17 at 4:58 pm
slate says:
I meant comp “LIKE THIS”
Jul.17 at 5:43 pm
Air Yi says:
I just want to point out that in China, the news that”the Guangdong tiger does not want Yi to go to the Bucks” has been clarified as false understanding and not true, I don’t know why Reutues and ESPN are still putting it up on the top. If you can read chinese, here is the link to follow :http://sports.163.com/07/0717/10/3JJJRH2F00051CA1.html so before you spread your hate, please calm down . The same quoted person(vice manager of the guandong tiger) has stated that the club has not ruled out the Bucks,the whole thing is still in discussion.
Jul.17 at 5:51 pm
nothin _personal says:
When the Chinese people execute Yi’s family for treason, maybe sent russ the bill for the bullet’s. Oh, wait, he will have enough millions from his deal with Milwakee, so all this won’t matter.
Jul.17 at 5:52 pm
nothin _personal says:
Ok, I am taking it a step too far, but I don’t put it past them to throw a couple of people in jail.
Jul.17 at 6:40 pm
Russ Bengtson says:
You’re taking it A step too far?
Jul.17 at 6:52 pm
nothin _personal says:
Ok, several steps and a thousand mile journey. Those dirty commies!!!
Jul.17 at 7:17 pm
Chukaz says:
Yeah, f*ck dem dirty commies.
Jul.17 at 9:02 pm
albie1kenobi says:
this is gonna end (or begin, however you see it) really ugly. Yi’s made into a diva and alienating the mass before he even plays one single NBA game.
Jul.17 at 9:29 pm
John from Miami says:
Now I know that EVERYTHING exported from China is bad for your health, even the athletes.
Jul.17 at 10:18 pm
Yaro says:
They want a team suitable for Yi’s growth. Whay did the Bucks drafted him in the first place, to be the tallest ballboy in the L??
Jul.17 at 10:57 pm
Russ Bengtson says:
Not to mention Yi would advance more as a player PRACTICING with the Bucks than he would PLAYING with the Tigers. But whatever, man.
Jul.17 at 11:38 pm
tike says:
I’d leave to if i were Yi.
Jul.18 at 2:15 am
jub_al says:
i think the first thing for Yi to do is get another agent….Dan Fegan needs to go….right from the get-go he’s been the one pushing for Yi to go to a larger market… sending faxes to team, informing them that Yi has or does not have interest in playing for them?.. grow the f*ck up Fegan… it’s called a draft for a reason, if players don’t want to get drafted by certain teams, they should wait until those teams are out of the lottery to declare… i have no sympathy nor pity for players like Steve Francis who refused to come to Vancouver… look where he is now… With Yi, i can understand the amount of control the Chinese government might have on him, but still 1) dan fegan does not help; 2) Milwaukee IS a place where Yi can grow and develop and get a lot of minutes; 3)Who else is gonna want a mysterious, unproven chinese player who pouts about where he plays?
Jul.18 at 2:48 am
jub_al says:
http://sports.163.com/07/0718/09/3JM436E400051CA1.html
…as per air yi’s lead, i did a little reading up on the chinese site… an interview with President of the Guangdong Tigers, Chen Hai Tao suggests this much: on Easy’s situation: “all negotiations between the Bucks and Yi’s party pertain to NBA regulations, the Bucks had the right to draft Yi and we understand that…with that said, Yi has the right to choose whether or not he signs that contract… (translator’s note: true, but if he’s not prepared to play for who drafts him, then he can play in a summer league and earn a contract from another team, not declare to be drafted and then pick and choose) thus, this pressure and criticism on Yi is unjustified… On Dan Fegan:
“it is not fegan’s fault that the bucks drafted Yi… we are also cooperating with Fegan to make this work, it is not a simple matter of Fegan not landing Yi on a preferred team, therefore we should fire him, it’s not like that…(translator’s note: OH YES IT IS! FIRE HIS @$$) he has done nothing wrong to warrant a forced resignation… On Yi’s possibility of returning to the CBA (Chinese B-Ball Association) if the Bucks don’t trade Yi:
“it is hard to answer that question… obviously, it would benefit the Guangdong Tigers if he comes back…however, how would it benefit Yi? it is his dream to play in the NBA and an opportunity for him to grow and further develop his skills….this would in turn benefit the Chinese National team in the future as well… there is no reason for Yi to return to the CBA….
It is Yi’s decision to make (translator’s note: BULLSH*T!). there is no conclusion yet, everything is in negotiations right now and only time will tell what Yi’s final decision is.” this is just according to my understanding of the article… translation is not guaranteed to be of professional standard nor 100% accurate…
Jul.18 at 2:53 am
Joel O's says:
This is becoming overly political. It’s all moot, fellas, because: 1) We haven’t heard anything proper from Yi. 2) Apparently, from the Chinese POV, his Chinese team isn’t trying to deny him from playing in Milwaukee. 3) With the recent friction between US and China, how much of this is real and how much of this a propaganda/media war between China and the US? 4) After being told “Iraq has WMD’s” I wouldn’t put it beyond anyone to make up “Yi’s Chinese team is preventing him from playing with the Bucks”. THEREFORE, and I speak as an Asian person who grew up between both worlds, we can either get patriotic, vitriolic, political and hot-headed… or we can just take a step back and look at the situation for what it is: a vague, misunderstood situation which is obviously being used as a political lightning rod to incite feelings of xenophobia. In other words, take it easy, fellas.
Jul.18 at 2:59 am
Joel O's says:
To further emphasize my point, think of this: we haven’t heard anything, really, from Yi. Nor do we really know what transpired between the Bucks and him when they met. Nothing from either, um, horses’ mouths. And a lot from everyone else. Vague situation. Vast overreactions. So please guys, let’s try and keep this civil.
Jul.18 at 2:59 am
Chukaz says:
Yo, before Yi came to the L, people said that he was gonna be bigger than the Big Mac. It was all over the place, it was on CNN, ESPN, TNT, TBS, BET, ABC, NBC, (insert 3-letter channels here). I can remember the headlines. Yi: bigger than the Big Mac. But now that he is in the L, turns out the whole thing was not quite as big as a Big Mac.
Jul.18 at 3:00 am
Chukaz says:
The headline:Yi’s Chinese Team Hates Milwaukee
My responce: Who doesn’t?
Jul.18 at 3:00 am
Joel O's says:
Haha Chukaz… good one.
Jul.18 at 3:10 am
Carlosan says:
How is it about “growth & development” and not about Milwaukee not having a large enough Chinese population or commercial interest when like John says, the Chinese government basically wants to get him in a city where he will bring the most money possible to China? It would’ve been fine if Yi had enough leverage based on proven on-court skills for his “handlers” to demand something like this but the way I see it, other teams would only have interest in Yi for his off-court profitability. How sad, indeed. To Yi’s “handlers”, when in Rome do as the Romans do. Quit whining and trying to make your own rules. It’s not always about Yi-u.
Jul.18 at 3:20 am
Slobodan Chutzpah says:
What a bunch of BS. And I just don’t see Chinese politics playing that much into it. After all, why would they care where Yi ends up? It’s just his douchebag agent and the lil’ diva himself making all this fuss, flip-flopping all around the place. I officially hate that guy and hope he crashes and burns in NBA terms.
Jul.18 at 3:22 am
Slobodan Chutzpah says:
I mean, really: who the f**k does this weedy mother*****r think he is? The second coming of Dr J?
Jul.18 at 3:23 am
Slobodan Chutzpah says:
Sorry, getting a bit agitated here.
Jul.18 at 3:38 am
Joel O's says:
@Slobodan: Case in point.
Jul.18 at 3:47 am
nothin _personal says:
Come on, Slobo, the same thing happened with Yao. Chinese government wants to micromanage everything. They are probably still telling Yao what to eat, everyday. And I think Yi would suck anyway.
Jul.18 at 3:50 am
Russ Bengtson says:
I’m not a xenophobe, I’m a Yinophobe.
Jul.18 at 3:59 am
nothin _personal says:
Perhaps we should have Russ throw Yi into a well will shouting, “this is THE US”!!! Hey, you got the beard in place, so…
Jul.18 at 4:04 am
Joel O's says:
@Russ: I fully, fully agree with you that this is absolutely the worst and most awkward way to introduce anyone to the NBA. Nothing good can come out of it. If he sucks, the hatorade will flow. And if he actually doesn’t, he’ll be vilified like Reggie Miller in NY, except in the entire league instead of New York. I just wonder how much of this really is Yi’s doing, and how much of it is his mysterious “handlers”, or even his agent’s.
Jul.18 at 8:18 am
Grillzboy224 says:
…and Yi is a top rookie so I don’t really get the point of what Yi’s agent is sayin. Yi should be proud to be in the NBA cause it’s a gift that many other young people dream about for a decade or even more…
this is a shoutout for Yi: why you even playin bball if you don’t think you’ll be able to have a chance to be better than the big men at Millwaukee…I mean most of them ain’t good
Jul.18 at 9:49 am
Hightz says:
WOW…im having flash backs of when Steve Francis didnt want to play for vancouver, ironicly that vancouvers population 1.7 mill 65% of that is chiniese…
Jul.18 at 9:50 am
Hightz says:
and didnt yao have proplems comming into the league?
Jul.18 at 12:18 pm
Grillzboy224 says:
the big difference between yao and yi is that yao really wanted to play for the team that picked him, and yao really isn’t a crybaby like yi. Things don’t always work out like we want them to. Life’s tough
Jul.18 at 2:16 pm
Air Yi says:
http://www.nbadraft.net/draftbuzz072.asp seems like aaron smith does hv some real connection with the Chiense media that knows the current situation
Jul.18 at 3:58 pm
dj says:
i think Yao was too important for the L (and to the Chinese gov., Stern, etc) to risk his landing on the Memphis Grizzlies or something of that nature. When I saw that Houston had won the lottery that year i just knew it reeked of stern’s ping-pong ball shenanigans. Houstons not LA or NYC, but as far as asians go, it has as much as any other place in the US.
Being asian myself, i still don’t see how people like Joel-O could insinuate that this is some sort of geopolitical chess match between two superpowers. I think its quite the opposite. Stern obviously didnt feel Yi was important enough (or not as critical as Yao was) to fix the lottery so that he fell into the hands of the Warriors or whatever. I think the chinese “handlers” (note here that the pro team Yi played for is also completely under the control of the govt) are throwing a hissyfit that their next prized superstar who will glorify the great chinese image across the world is stuck in a city best know for beer, cheese and Brett Favre. Remember that even today Yao’s former team and just about every other higher-up in the Chinese basketball world is getting some sort of cut from Yao’s salary. I’m willing to bet you tons of $$ that Yi himself has no problem at all playing in milwaukee. Hell, he probably would jump at the first chance he gets at making a vastly better life for his family. But this is the same government that takes kids and basically forces them in elementary school to be taken from their parents and sent to “academies” where they practice sports fiendishly, and are tested to see how they will potentially develop, etc etc. If this all sounds a little bit Ivan Drago to you, it is. Yi’s parents were both National Team Handball players, so their “genetic stock” so to say was on the radar of the gov’t the moment it was conceived. Yi’s entire life has been planned out by the gov’t, what gives us cozy and free Americans the right to judge Yi for being a “crybaby who won’t follow the rules?”
Jul.18 at 3:59 pm
dj says:
disclaimer: i dont think Stern rigs the lottery actually, all that patrick ewing conspiracy stuff is BS. But i think a player like Yao had too much at stake for Stern to put his fate in the hands of chance.
Jul.18 at 4:26 pm
Joel O's says:
Ya know, dj, I agree with you. I’m not saying it necessarily IS a “goeopolitical chess match”, but that it “might” be. Because, like you said, I too think that Yi “himself has no problem at all playing in milwaukee”. That’s my point exactly: all this brouhaha - and nothing coming from Yi nor the Bucks on this issue. Think back to the pre-draft period, of stories of Yi seemingly fitting in nicely with the American culture, all by himself. I remember a quote where he said he liked the parties and the nightlife. That kid seems so far away now - because we haven’t heard jack from him, only mysterious tidbits from his “handlers” and the press from either side. My point tallies with yours, dj: don’t hate Yi yet, because the odds are, he’s not the one throwing a diva fit, since someone else - be it his “handlers”, the press, hell, “geopolitical chess players” are the ones saying everything here.
Jul.18 at 5:28 pm
albie1kenobi says:
i feel like Yi’s the kid who got stuck in an ugly battele between a divorced parents fighting for his custody, and the battle’s only getting worse. he’s gonna be scarred for life.
Jul.18 at 5:58 pm
Dave says:
All hail our new Chinese overlords !
Jul.19 at 3:53 am
Slobodan Chutzpah says:
@Joel O’s: very nice of you to, basically, label me a xenophobe for voicing an - albeit pretty irritated - opinion on this issue. I’m from Finland so I really don’t have an axe to grind with regard to US-China geopolitics, or anything of the sort. Moreover, I consider myself rather sensitive to latent racism, and would have voiced the exact same points were the offending party of African-American, native Croatian or Indian-Swedish origin. Thus I resent what you were suggesting about me. Also, perhaps there is some political wrangling going on behind the scenes, but I still don’t see the point. Would it really matter that much to the Chinese Government (or their minions) where Yi plays? Maybe, but I’m not wholly convinced. I also like your logic on justifying why Yi is not a diva: he’s adapted to the US lifestyle well, and likes the parties and nightlife. Right, because those things are directly antithetical to diva behaviour… I’m saying this ultimately cursory contact with a certain kind of US culture could be exactly what triggers this kind of behaviour. But maybe I am wrong, and the kid is innocent of all of this. We’ll have to wait and see.
Jul.19 at 8:42 am
Grillzboy224 says:
You know…I don’T understand why the F%$§ the chinese government has anything to say at all. I mean it’s Yi’s life. He can decide for himself, even if he does have the same opinion the governmanet has it’s still not their issue to decide anything…
Jul.19 at 9:17 am
pascal (france) says:
Meeen, who does Yi think he is? The new MJ? The revolution? I can’t believe he’s so picky, they’re just proposing him a contract in nba, well, only the chance of his life as a basketball player! If somebody offers me a contract like his (gonna be tons of buck$!)to play this game, I come swimming, and I have an ocean to cross! He shot 250.0 from the floor during summer league with his beloved nat team, great dude, work on your shoot, then be picky! Actually the Bucks should give up and could find somebody as good with less ego problems, it will be easier in the lockerrooms during the season.. He just doesn’t deserve so much attention, this guy even didn’t go to training camp, is he that superior?
Jul.25 at 7:13 am
Grillzboy224 says:
I think he thinks he’d be the star of the team anywhere else…Redd’S crepin him out:D…actually Yi you moron, dirk plays in Dallas even though they barely got Germans. I am German and I lived there for 8 years, and I only knew about 30 German Paople. You know 27500 Chinese People in Milwaukee ain’t really that little…tough sh§t