It's not Yi, it's China. They would'vetried to pull the same stuff with Yao, but Houston was lucky they were a good city etc.
Yi came out and said that he is the one saying he doesn't want to play in Milwaukee, and the Chinese government isn't the one doing this.</p> Its just an entire cultural thing. A lot of the Chinese who come to the United States in some type of priveledged, and wealthy state, seem to think they're above the United States, and are just very arrogant people.</p> Coming into next years draft (since it seems like he's doing to be a dick, and stay out of Milwaukee), his draft stock has to have plumetted. He went out in summer league and absolustely sucked. Horrible. He shot like 25%...and I don't think that was his FG% even, I'm pretty sure thats what his TS% was at. The guy was AWFUL. Teams are watching it. The teams already know if they're good for Yi or not. Chicago, Golden St, LA, Sacramento, they know they're good to go to take him. Teams aren't going to be afraid to take him for that reason, they know if they're in the club or not. They will be scared to take him because he sucks so much. Next year in the draft, it might go from Yi trying to force his destination, to feeling lucky someone finally nabbed him. It would be absolutely lovely to see him fall to the 2nd round with no garaunteed money.</p>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BG7 Lavigne)</div><div class='quotemain'> No, Yi said it was his decision to stay out of Milwaukee. Apparently he is afraid that he can't find a girlfriend there. </p> If he goes back to the Tigers, he remains as the rights of the Bucks. </p> If he does sit out, Bucks will probably trade him to the Bulls, Warriors, Kings, or Lakers (Clippers were one of the West coast teams, but I never heard them mentioned with Yi).</p> </p> With the Bulls, they obviously wouldn't get prospects back, except maybe Thabo, but they could probably do something like:</p> Bulls Trade:</p> Chris DuhonViktar KhryapaThabo Sefolosha</p> Bucks Trade:</p> Dan GadzuricYi Jianlian</p> This trade, for the Bucks, would be a Dan Gadzuric salary dump trade, just picking up Thabo for a prospect (Thabo kind of loses some of his value to the Bucks since they just got Desmond Mason back).</p> Even better than that would be with the Lakers (the most obvious for a salary dump trade).</p> Lakesr Trade:</p> Kwame BrownMo EvansSasha VujacicBucks Trade:Bobby SimmonsDan GadzuricYi Jianlian</p> This would be almost a garaunteed done deal if it went on the table to the Bucks. It would give them about 21 million in capspace. (Bulls trade only opens up them to 10-12 million depending on if they picked up Thabo's option or not). But, the Lakers management has showed that they are tightwads, so I doubt this happens.</p> Warriors cannot offer cap relief, but can offer lots of young prospects. They're prospects are mostly bad fits for the Bucks, except B. Wright and A. Biedrins, and trading either would probably be a bad move.</p> So in the end, Isiah Thomas will try to look smart, trade David Lee for Yi, and look dumb in the end when Yi sits out and re-enters the draft because he doesn't want to join the Knicks. </p> </div></p> the 1st trade, the bulls shouldn't give up thabo, especially if yi is overhyped. thabo's too good a defender, and i'd prefer him over whatever scrub the bulls get to play behind kirk/ben (Tell me-do i overrated thabo?). and i'm not too sure jameson curry is all that good (probably because i barely know him).</p> and the 2nd trade, the bucks would be getting raped in the @$$. </p> just my opinions.</p>
Stern really should step in with a 'play or be banned' speech. After the Fran Vasquez situation you'd think some sort of by-law specifically holding international players to accountability would have been introduced...
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BG7 Lavigne)</div><div class='quotemain'> <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Real)</div><div class='quotemain'>My question is, if he sits out the season combined with his refusal to play in a small market with a low Asian population, does that hurt his draft stock?</div></p> I think the real question is if he is still on the board, do the Bucks take him? </p> </div></p> It'd be dumb for the Bucks, but that would be amazing if he just sat out all of next year, re-entered and the Bucks took him again.</p> </p> The whole thing is just crap. He entered the draft, you go play to where you got drafted (unless you're a shithead like Steve Francis), not where you want to go.</p>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (peg182)</div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BG7 Lavigne)</div><div class='quotemain'> No, Yi said it was his decision to stay out of Milwaukee. Apparently he is afraid that he can't find a girlfriend there. </p> If he goes back to the Tigers, he remains as the rights of the Bucks. </p> If he does sit out, Bucks will probably trade him to the Bulls, Warriors, Kings, or Lakers (Clippers were one of the West coast teams, but I never heard them mentioned with Yi).</p> </p> With the Bulls, they obviously wouldn't get prospects back, except maybe Thabo, but they could probably do something like:</p> Bulls Trade:</p> Chris DuhonViktar KhryapaThabo Sefolosha</p> Bucks Trade:</p> Dan GadzuricYi Jianlian</p> This trade, for the Bucks, would be a Dan Gadzuric salary dump trade, just picking up Thabo for a prospect (Thabo kind of loses some of his value to the Bucks since they just got Desmond Mason back).</p> Even better than that would be with the Lakers (the most obvious for a salary dump trade).</p> Lakesr Trade:</p> Kwame BrownMo EvansSasha VujacicBucks Trade:Bobby SimmonsDan GadzuricYi Jianlian</p> This would be almost a garaunteed done deal if it went on the table to the Bucks. It would give them about 21 million in capspace. (Bulls trade only opens up them to 10-12 million depending on if they picked up Thabo's option or not). But, the Lakers management has showed that they are tightwads, so I doubt this happens.</p> Warriors cannot offer cap relief, but can offer lots of young prospects. They're prospects are mostly bad fits for the Bucks, except B. Wright and A. Biedrins, and trading either would probably be a bad move.</p> So in the end, Isiah Thomas will try to look smart, trade David Lee for Yi, and look dumb in the end when Yi sits out and re-enters the draft because he doesn't want to join the Knicks. </p> </div></p> the 1st trade, the bulls shouldn't give up thabo, especially if yi is overhyped. thabo's too good a defender, and i'd prefer him over whatever scrub the bulls get to play behind kirk/ben (Tell me-do i overrated thabo?). and i'm not too sure jameson curry is all that good (probably because i barely know him).</p> and the 2nd trade, the bucks would be getting raped in the @$$. </p> just my opinions. </p> </div></p> Both Thabo and JamesOn are poor NBA talents. </p>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BG7 Lavigne)</div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (peg182)</div><div class='quotemain'> the 1st trade, the bulls shouldn't give up thabo, especially if yi is overhyped. thabo's too good a defender, and i'd prefer him over whatever scrub the bulls get to play behind kirk/ben (Tell me-do i overrated thabo?). and i'm not too sure jameson curry is all that good (probably because i barely know him).</p> and the 2nd trade, the bucks would be getting raped in the @$$. </p> just my opinions. </p> </div></p> Both Thabo and JamesOn are poor NBA talents. </p></div>i thought thabo was a really good defender, and not to mention on of the few bulls guards with height.
