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**narek** · 03-04-2008, 04:16 AM

Tom Enlund takes a look at what's ailing Yi:

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Yi Jianlian is burned out.

The Milwaukee Bucks' rookie forward, who has been mired in a slump for weeks, admits that playing basketball constantly over the last ten months or so has left him on empty and that his performance has declined because of it.

"I want to play good and that's what I'm trying to do," said Yi through his interpreter. "Right now, the reason I feel I'm playing not so good is that I'm tired. I've been playing since last summer, all through this season, all these games without a stop.

"I'm tired out."

Asked how long it had been since he'd been away from basketball, there was a long pause as Yi looked skyward and tried to recall. Finally he said, "Last year in April I had about two weeks of rest."

Yi's fatigue is an interesting revelation coming on the heels of the news out of Houston last week that Yao Ming, Yi's Chinese teammate, would miss the remainder of the NBA season because of a stress fracture in his left foot. Yao and Yi both put in a busy summer playing for the Chinese national team.

Yi suffered a left-ankle sprain in Sunday's loss to Indiana and the Bucks have listed his condition as day-to-day. And his weariness has been reflected in his play.

Yikes.

A lot more at Chinese national team, NBA season taking a toll on Yi.

**Yao Mania** · 03-04-2008, 07:41 AM

Yep, poor Yi... sounds bad but I think he's probably glad that the Bucks aren't making the playoffs

garnett · 03-05-2008, 01:31 AM

I'm guessing Yi does the same things that Yao has to do for the Chinese team as well? Shame.

**narek** · 03-05-2008, 03:42 AM

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Originally Posted by garnett

I'm guessing Yi does the same things that Yao has to do for the Chinese team as well? Shame.

Yep, he does.

I heard a former football player, who is in his 50s, talk about how he went for his first appointments on getting a new replacement at age 52 the surgeon's office was full of teenagers seeing the doc about sports injuries. The kdis were playing organized sports constantly - he actually talked to some of the parents - and their bodies were getting warn out.

Playing all the time doesn't allow the body to recover from those aches and pains.

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