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The NBA offseason is a time spent by
front offices', looking to find new ways and players
to upgrade their respective teams. Nets President Rod Thorn has kept himself occupied. The busiest team in the East this offseason, other than the Miami Heat, has been the New Jersey Nets. http://rawsportsblog.com/?p=1314
Wow! Last night, on the way to my
room here at the Wynn, I had a Zhang
Songtao sighting! What? You don't know him? Well, he's the 6'11" Chinese man on the Knicks Summer League team. Interesting fact about Zhang Songtao: On NBA.com he's listed as being ...
Gilbert Arenas really slapped the city(?) of Milwaukee
around in his post this week at NBA.com. Well,
bless the Charles F. Gardner's sweet heart for trying to justify the town as...well, "not so bad" and that some players like it there...they really like it there!
Agent Zero has no love for the city
of Milwaukee. Et tu, Gilbert?
The New York Daily News (Julian Garcia) reports:
The Nets are still scheduled to move to Brooklyn.
But as for exactly when that will happen, not even owner Bruce Ratner can say. At the press conference to introduce new players Yi Jianlian and Bobby Simmons Wednesday, Ratner acknowledged that the move, which in recent months [...]
ROD Thorn brought the Nets out of the
wilderness once, so is trusted by Bruce Ratner to
do it again. But it's not the owner, actually LeBron James, who will be the ultimate judge of Yi Jianlian, Devin Harris, Sean Williams and whatever other pieces...
After the press conference to introduce Yi Jianlian
and Bobby Simmons to the New Jersey media, Nets
GM Rod Thorn indicated that he isn't done trying to make deals. According to the Bergen Record, one deal being discussed would send Marcus Williams ...
What does John Hammond think of Anthony Randolph?
Which notable 2nd round prospects were at the Cousins
Center on Tuesday? And how did Yi Jianlian fare in China's exhibition against Lithuania?
The Milwaukee Bucks have agreed in principle to
trade Yi Jianlian to the New Jersey Nets for
Richard Jefferson , two league sources told SI.com. The Bucks also are sending Bobby Simmons to the Nets. He has $20.5 million left on a contract that ...
The New Jersey Nets and Milwaukee Bucks are
on the verge of a trade that will send
Richard Jefferson to the Bucks for forwards Yi Jianlian and Bobby Simmons , according to NBA front-office sources. Sources told ESPN.com that the deal has been agreed ...
Fantasy implications of the Jefferson/Yi trade
The Milwaukee Bucks have acquired forward Richard Jefferson
(6-7, 225) from the New Jersey Nets in exchange
for forwards Bobby Simmons and Yi Jianlian, General Manager John Hammond announced today.
On the day of the 2008 NBA draft
the Milwaulkee Bucks and New Jersey Nets made a
pre-draft deel involoving the Bucks trading Yi Jianlian and Bobby Simmons for Richard Jefferson....
If Skiles put the screws to Yi like
he did to his players in Chicago, would China
have an official response? We may never know... plus a roster analysis of the trade.
The Nets on Thursday sent Richard Jefferson -
the last remaining link to the Nets' two Finals
teams earlier this decade - to Milwaukee in exchange for 7-foot Chinese center Yi Jianlian, the sixth overall pick in last year's draft.
by E. Spencer Kyte , Bugs and Cranks
It's a great day to be a New Jersey
Nets fan. Yeah, we dropped Richard Jefferson to the Bucks for on overpaid, injury-prone defensive specialist and the Chinese Andrea Bargiani, but still, it's a great, ...
The team traded Yi Jianlian to the New
Jersey Nets on Thursday, casting doubts on a possible
connection between Milwaukee and China By DON WALKER dwalker@journalsentinel.com Posted: June 26, 2008 When Yi Jianlian left China last summer to come to ...
If you're a Nets fan, you had better
hope LeBron and Jay-Z are reaaaaaaaaal tight. Like sardine-can
tight. Because the only way to make hay from what amounts to a giveaway of Richard Jefferson on Thursday is if LeBron decides to bolt for Brooklyn in ...
Richard Jefferson has checked in with the Nets.
He is not amused. Jefferson, traded to Milwaukee for
promising 7-footer Yi Jianlian and veteran Bobby Simmons, responded via text message to Nets team president Rod Thorn. "He didn't seem very...
AFP - Tuesday, July 1 BEIJING, June 30,
2008 (AFP) - China's basketball chiefs have defended Yi
Jianlian amid a media frenzy over photos of him at a Beijing nightclub with his pop star girlfriend, state press said Monday. Yi has been at the centre of ...










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