Yi Jianlian has spent most of the season injured, but the 7-0 forward from China has been living up to expectations when he has played. In his third season, through 10 games Jianlian is averaging career highs of 16.2 points, 6.7 rebounds, and 1.2 blocks a game. (Discuss the Yi Jianlian and New Jersey Nets [...]

This week’s quick international roundup of the player performances during the last few days. This post includes discussion about Yi Jianlian‘s return to the New Jersey Nets, Pau Gasol‘s extension, Luol Deng and Joakim Noah’s contributions to the Chicago Bulls, J.J. Barea’s career year, and Žalgiris Kaunas fills their head coach position. Yi Jianlian returned [...]

The Nets season just continues to be cursed. Chinese forward Yi Jianlian, who has missed 15 games this season, will miss at least another week after being injured by New Jersey Net’s teammate Sean Williams during practice Yi needed 50 stitches to close a cut upper lip after being inadvertently elbowed by Williams during a [...]

Iran successfully defended their Asia Champions crown last night, dropping favored-China in a laughable 70-52 win. Led by Memphis Grizzly center Hamed Haddadi‘s 19 points and 17 rebounds, Iran dominated the Chinese in the first two quarters; outscoring their opponents by 11 in the first quarter and by six in the second. The Iranians took [...]

Yi Jianlian and Hamed Haddadi came up big for their respective national teams last night, propelling each squad to an unblemished 5-0 record in the 2009 Asia Basketaball Championships. With the two NBA big men leading their teams over Jordan and Korea, China and Iran are now the remaining teams without a loss. China to [...]

Title: Asia Championships of Basketball Location: Tianjin, China Official Website: http://china2009.fiba.com/ Description: The 2009 FIBA Asia Championships of basketball (discuss) will be held in Tianjin, China from August 6-16, 2009 with 16 teams divided into four groups. The sixteen teams competing for the gold and a spot in the 2010 World Championships are hosts China, [...]

Recent evidence referencing a Sports Illustrated-China piece suggests that Yi Jianlian, the 7-0 forward from Heshan City, China, is much older than 21 years old, as all his official NBA profiles report. The document is Yi’s senior registration form at Binhe Middle School, which has a picture of a young Yi and seems to have [...]