I can explain it to you pretty easily. It's because Wang ZhiZhi was a 2nd round pick and Mengke Bateer came into the league as an undrafted player. Both had little hype and limited potential. Neither was as popular nor as young as Yi. Yao's popularity has led to an enormous growth in Chinese fans and both of those players were just before Yao's time. If Yi gets in, it's absolutely because of Chinese bias, something which needs to be controlled.
I just want to point out that it's been proven that a majority of Yao's votes were thru PAPER ballot, the kind ONLY found in NBA arenas IN AMERICA...so according to ESPN's theory, 1.2 million Chinese people secretly illegally arrived on America's soil, broke into every single NBA stadium....just to vote for Yao? Now the SAME ESPN "professional" Analysts are predicting a similar outcome for Yi?....For the last time I want to point out it aint just the Asian people voting for Asian athletes. I can guarantee you there will be all kinds of fans of varius ethnic background voting for People like Yi (I know at this point in time Yi doesn't deserve it, but you can thank the NBA for the voting system). And isn't the All-Star game a popularity contest? If you want to see accolades given out to star players without much bias you're in luck.....it's called the "All NBA First team", legend has it that there's also an "All NBA 2nd and 3rd Team" as well. And I think it balances out....the NBA's sponsors have sweatshops in China paying Chinese laborers like 10 cents an hour for those shoes, and jerseys, so if Yi makes the All-Star team by miracle....all I can say is Karma is a biatch.
I agree, but the NBA want their money. This is the problem, you want to tell the Chinese NBA fans that their vote doesn't count?
One thing I've learnt is you can't educate the dumb and the stupid. Let them be. They'll believe whatever they read or hear. Again for the record, Yao wasn't even in the top 3 vote getters last season. If it were true that the Chinese voting system counts as much as people believe then Yao would have 1 billion votes every year. However that has NEVER been the case. Yao got 1,709,180 votes last season that was behind KG, Lebron, Howard, Kobe, Melo, Duncan. http://www.insidehoops.com/all-star-voting-results.shtml Judge for yourself and just wait for the votes to come out instead of speculating.
to our China fans please excuse some of the young posters on the board who are sounding more stupid with each post. This is america and we invite the china people to join us in this unimportant exhibition game. There are a few posters here who were maybe raised in Russia, but please understand most Americans don't think that way, and we welcome you all. After all that is how our country was built and formed... oh yeah, go nets!!!!
Definitely. There's no one that comes to mind that could be worst. Yao is up there, but he was solid putting up roughly 13/8/2 2 blocks. Another candidate is Big Z but he was and still is much more effective than Yi. Ditto for Jamaal Magloire.
And why would they? I mean if I was going to vote for Yi, I may as well vote for Sun Yue of the Lakers too even though he has only played 5 minutes of garbage time all season. I don't want Yi to be an all star and I don't believe he'll be one either despite all the BS that's being written.
