Sports / NBA Draft 2007
Yao urges Yi to talk with the Milwaukee Bucks NBA club
(AFP)
Updated: 2007-07-06 09:23
BEIJING - Yao Ming has urged his Chinese teammate, Yi Jianlian, to hold
talks with the Milwaukee Bucks, amid a stand-off between the star recruit
and the NBA club who picked him in last week's draft.
"I think as an international player, at the very beginning he should try
to get in touch (with the Bucks)," Yao told Chinese reporters here
Tuesday, referring to Yi and his management team's refusal to meet with
the Bucks.
Yao, who has plenty of experience in the NBA as the Houston Rockets' star
centre, urged his 19-year-old countryman to ensure he acts in his own
best interests.
"Yi must walk his own road," Yao said.
"Chinese players are very modest, but this does not mean that he should
not make his own feelings known."
Yi was chosen by the Bucks as the sixth pick in the NBA draft but his
management team and the China Basketball Association (CBA) wanted him
selected by a larger city with a bigger ethnic Chinese population.
The Bucks' scouts were not even allowed to watch him train before the
draft.
Yi's management team is reportedly seeking to broker a trade that could
get the seven-foot (2.12-metre) Yi out of Milwaukee and possibly to the
Golden State Warriors who play in San Francisco.
Yao was speaking to Chinese reporters at a promotional event for the 2008
Beijing Olympics. His comments were posted on the sports website of
leading portal Sina.com and in the state press on Wednesday.
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