Yi Jianlian's Chinese team to block him from playing for the Bucks

[Jerryaki]

i don't really want to find out how we'd fare with a headcase and no adelman.

 

[HndsmCelt]

i don't really want to find out how we'd fare with a headcase and no adelman.

Just rewind last season for the answer to that question.

 

[Big Cuz 15]

Just rewind last season for the answer to that question.

so true

 

[kingzzzfan4ever]

Man, Yi is becoming a big headache for the NBA and I hope the Kings don't take on this headache and from watching the Summer League, Yi might be a bust.

 

[Warhawk]

Team owner rules out Yi playing in China next season

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2943723


The owner of Yi Jianlian's Chinese basketball team now says he was misquoted by the Beijing News when he was reported as saying Yi would "definitely not" play for the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks, according to PA Sportswire.

According to a transcript of his conference call with Chinese media earlier this week, Chen, the owner of the Guangdong Tigers, "specifically ruled out the possibility of Yi playing in the Chinese league next year," PA Sportswire reported.


However, Chen did say that the team "was trying to help [Yi] obtain a trade" from the Bucks, who drafted him in the first round.



In earlier reports, Chen was quoted as saying a lack of playing time was the primary reason Yi would not play for the Bucks. He said the Tigers were hoping to find a team that would be suiutable for Yi's growth as a player, with an eye toward developing him for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

But later reports quoted Guangdong vice chairman Liu Hong Xinjiang as saying Yi eventually could play for the Bucks.

 

[VF21]

Wow. Looks like they're beginning to backpedal quite nicely.

 

[Big Cuz 15]

According to a transcript of his conference call with Chinese media earlier this week, Chen, the owner of the Guangdong Tigers, "specifically ruled out the possibility of Yi playing in the Chinese league next year," PA Sportswire reported.

But later reports quoted Guangdong vice chairman Liu Hong Xinjiang as saying Yi eventually could play for the Bucks.

i swear that first quote means he could be sitting out the season and NOT playing in the chinese league. i could be reading it wrong.

the second quote says he could eventually

 

[SacKings7]

I hate rookies that demand trades before they even play a game. I hated Francis since the day he was drafted because he wouldn't play with the Grizzlies. Even still, I'd like to see us get Yi, but that's highly unlikely

 

[Dime Dropper]

Bottom line for me is that this is looking more and more like a situation I don't want the Kings to have any part of...

Don't worry. Yi is young, talented, tall and cheap. GP has no interest in those kind of players.

 

[hiero]

Don't worry. Yi is young, talented, tall and cheap. GP has no interest in those kind of players.

well Hawes does qualify as all those, but ya I would have definitely said that before this years draft.

 

[zo0mmike]

well Hawes does qualify as all those, but ya I would have definitely said that before this years draft.

As long as they're not athletic, they're fine in Petrie's book.

 

[SacKings7]

Haven't heard anything from Yi or the Bucks in a while..Anybody think Yi will rescind his trade demand? I do if nothing happens soon. Doesn't he have to sign a contract by a certain date in order to play this season and not be entered into next years draft??