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Yi Li to Play for Lakers in Summer League
According to pryuen of http://www.yaomingmania.com/forum/index.php Yi Li (204-F/G-87) will be playing for the Los Angeles Lakers in the Rocky Mountain Review Summer League.
Yi is a very talented 204 cm player who has been playing out of position at power forward for Jiangsu. Yi did not make the National Team because he is too thin to play power forward, even in the CBA. He used to be considered a more promising small forward than Wang Lei, but his lack of weight has hindered him. He is really a combo type player very much like Sun Yue and his physique resembles Sun's. Yi has some point guard skills which he exhibited when he attended the Adidas Camp in the United States several years ago.
Los Angeles General Manager Mitch Kupchak, who drafted Sun Yue, likely wants to compare Yi to Sun. Perhaps he will decide that Yi is the more promising of the two.
I wonder what year of birth Yi will use when he appears on the Lakers summer roster. His listed year of 1987 would make him ineligible for the summer league, since he would be draftable next spring.
But if he was really born in 1985, this would make him the same age as Sun. It seems to be common for young Chinese players to chop two years off their ages. If Yi Li was born in 1985, when was Yi Jianlian born?
The Lakers summer league schedule is as follows:
July 11 vs Detroit Pistons
July 13 vs Memphis Grizzlies
July 15 vs Philidelphia 76ers
July 16 vs Minnesota Timberwolves
July 18 vs Toronto Raptors
July 19 vs Denver Nuggets
According to pryuen of http://www.yaomingmania.com/forum/index.php Yi Li (204-F/G-87) will be playing for the Los Angeles Lakers in the Rocky Mountain Review Summer League.
Yi is a very talented 204 cm player who has been playing out of position at power forward for Jiangsu. Yi did not make the National Team because he is too thin to play power forward, even in the CBA. He used to be considered a more promising small forward than Wang Lei, but his lack of weight has hindered him. He is really a combo type player very much like Sun Yue and his physique resembles Sun's. Yi has some point guard skills which he exhibited when he attended the Adidas Camp in the United States several years ago.
Los Angeles General Manager Mitch Kupchak, who drafted Sun Yue, likely wants to compare Yi to Sun. Perhaps he will decide that Yi is the more promising of the two.
I wonder what year of birth Yi will use when he appears on the Lakers summer roster. His listed year of 1987 would make him ineligible for the summer league, since he would be draftable next spring.
But if he was really born in 1985, this would make him the same age as Sun. It seems to be common for young Chinese players to chop two years off their ages. If Yi Li was born in 1985, when was Yi Jianlian born?
The Lakers summer league schedule is as follows:
July 11 vs Detroit Pistons
July 13 vs Memphis Grizzlies
July 15 vs Philidelphia 76ers
July 16 vs Minnesota Timberwolves
July 18 vs Toronto Raptors
July 19 vs Denver Nuggets
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