woodsboy

I hope if or when Yi takes the floor for the first time for the Bucks, he's booed roundly.

This guy has the potential to be the big bust of this draft. Years from now, people could look at it and say, "Look who the Bucks passed up. Who did they get again? Oh yeah, Yi. What a f*cking joke."

We'll see how things shape out, and as a Bucks fan, I hope this guy is great. But if he weren't on the Bucks, and was doing this with say, New Orleans? I'd hope he sits on the bench for 3 years and goes back to China.

I bet Yi can score some. But can he rebound? Can he defend? Can he block shots? I'm not convinced that Yi's going to ever put up 9rpg, or even 7. For a guy who right now looks like at best he's a 14ppg, 6.5rpg defensive sieve, he can suck it. I hope the Bucks can trade him for something. There was talk about Golden State sending over Beidris (or however you spell that) and I hope it still happens.

23isback

Ignorance is bliss

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o.iatlhawksfan

What if Yi, doesn't ever take the floor for you guys? You could booo, him while he's playing on the visiting team.

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Quite Frankly

He can score, and rebound (7-footer, it's a given). Blocking, might improve. But can he follow through in his career, that is the true question.

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IbizaXL

so is Yi the one demanding the trade or the Chinese govt?

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narek

It's his team and his agent.

As long as Yi doesn't pick Manning over Favre in Mo's little talk show quiz, he won't be booed.

budselig

You don't know that he can score efficiently as a big man at the NBA level at a clip high enough to warrant being drafted sixth in a draft with a loaded talent pool. He's proven literally nothing. With his size and athleticism both rebounding and shotblocking should be more of a given.

I don't see why Yi would ever play for Milwaukee since he made it clear to them prior to the draft that he would not play for the Bucks franchise. This is a situation where a franchise tried to strongarm a player who explicitly expressed a desire to NOT play for them.

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Imagine a person, tall, lean and feline, high-shouldered, with a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan, ... one giant intellect, with all the resources of science past and present ... Imagine that awful being, and you have a mental picture of Yi Jinlian, the yellow peril incarnate in one man.

Jacoby_Ellsbury

The Bucks should be the only team Yi plays for (unless they trade his rights). It's so much bull**** -- the team drafted him, and now he wants to puss out b/c Wisconsin/Milwaukee has no asian people and isn't "suitable for Yi's development". wawawawawa. if he doesn't report, i hope the Bucks hang on to his rights (I think the Bucks are good enough where this won't be that big an issue) and let him rot in China until he's 37 and can't play anymore, if he can even play in the NBA in the first place. So Yi and his agents can all shove it. **** like this really pisses me off as you may have noticed.

I hope I get rep for this.

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seifer0406

In China, boo means cheer

Quite Frankly

Hows about we give him the universal F.U. by flipping him the bird, surely that would be understood.

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Block

Every supposed Bucks fan will turn around when he ends up playing as a Buck. China Daily has already stated the source of the "block Yi" articles as fraudulent and the chief of the CBA has already issued a statement denying the statement yesterday.

But really, no matter what happens, the Bucks need to suck it up and boo themselves. You knew this was coming and you did nothing to avoid it. Yi is probably selfish or whatever you guys have been saying; you still could've just passed him up. Some of the criticism he's been getting from these fans treat him as if he pulled a 180 and shocked the world. We all knew it was coming and drafted him anyways.

seifer0406

That would be the most appropriate. Though after all that butt kissing, the dignity-tossing, the Bucks organization already did for Yi, I don't know how serious an insult the Bucks can inflict on Yi.

Quite Frankly

Ouch, good point.

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garnett

This has nothing to do with Yi. It's the Chinese government and his agent. Being Bucks fans, I thought you would've realised that by now. Maybe you should boo your GM for picking him because he knew this was coming, and now they've almost got nothing from a very deep draft.

taikaviitta

I have only one question to this, one word that can be said/asked to both of them: Why??

Yi, why? Why don't you want to play for the Bucks? It's a team that he would (if he's as good as he is supposed to be)play big minutes with Charlie-V and Bogut... Also he could see some action at 3, if he thinks that it would be suitable..

Milwaukee Bucks, why? Why did you even pick him at all? Corey Brewer was still on the board and I belive that he is a future all-star and he would have filled a need in the Bucks team. He would've been a defensive swingman to SG-SF position so your best small forwar would not have been Bobby Simmons...

I think that the NBA should enter a Yi-Francis rule, where rookies picked through the draft would be obligated to play atleast one season with the team that drafted them. If not, face a huge, I mean 30-40-50 game HUGE (maybe even Ron Artest HUGE), suspension after being traded, if the trade was demanded by the player. IMO, what happened with Francis and is happening with Yi, is against very meaning of the draft, to strengthen the team.