Yi Jianlian poised to challenge Yao as China's top export
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Before flying to the United States to pursue his NBA dream in April, Yi Jianlian said he wanted to step out from the shadow of Yao Ming and carve out a career in the world's top league in his own way.
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SHANGHAI, China - Yao Ming was the star in the NBA&#39;s first China game, scoring 14 points and grabbing seven rebounds to lead the Houston Rockets past the Sacramento Kings 88-86 on Thursday.
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The Yankees and Mariners have become the first major league teams to sign Chinese players, so could baseball's version of NBA superstar Yao Ming be on deck? Unlikely, for reasons that are varied and complicated.
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Yao Ming has cemented his stature as one of the dominant big men in the National Basketball Association, and now he has a chance to become an integral part of the league's most explosive one-two tandem.
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China&#39;s Yi Jianlian, the first  overseas player taken in the 2007 NBA Draft, said he was  surprised at being selected with the sixth pick by the  Milwaukee Bucks on Thursday.
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National Basketball Association star Yao Ming, from China, received a warm welcome and responded with 13 points, but it was not enough as the Sacramento Kings edged the Houston Rockets 91-89 in a preseason game played in Beijing.
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Yao Ming is more than 60,000 votes ahead of Shaquille O&#39;Neal in the race to finish No. 1 overall in NBA All-Star game balloting.
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China is to face greater competition from foreign banks as a WTO deadline to open its markets looms.
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China's Yi Jianlian signed a multi-year contract with the Milwaukee Bucks on Wednesday, putting aside concerns that a move to Wisconsin might not best serve the forward's career prospects and style of play.
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Got Mongolian Milk? The NBA does. The largest milk seller in China represents one of six new NBA marketing partners signed since the start of last season. Why did that merit mention by commissioner David Stern during a recent press conference in London? Because the next great NBA frontier is the land of Yao and Yi. Stern envisions the country ...
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The owner of the Milwaukee Bucks has written to first-round draft pick Yi Jianlian requesting a meeting with the Chinese power forward, according to a newspaper report.
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Listening to hip-hop and growing up playing pickup basketball in Shenzhen, Yi Jianlian stands as a symbol of basketball discovery that is rippling through China.
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Chinese basketball officials gave a mixed reaction on Friday to the Milwaukee Bucks selecting Yi Jianlian as the number six pick in the NBA draft, insisting he must get on court playing time.
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South Africa&#039;s trade relations with juggernaut China will be put to the test this week when Premier Wen Jiabao jets into Cape Town for talks centred around China&#039;s mighty textile industry.
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Famed Chinese basketball player Yao Ming, an all-star basketball player with the Houston Rockets, has applied to visit Taiwan on a trip that would score one for Beijing's agenda of uniting the two territories.
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Yi Jianlian, the 7-foot power forward from China who was selected by the Milwaukee Buck in the N.B.A. draft, will âdefinitely notâ join the Bucks, according to a report in Tuesdayâs Beijing News.
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Yi Jianlian, the sixth overall pick in the N.B.A. draft in June, signed a standard rookie scale contract with the Bucks in Hong Kong.