Yi surprised by Bucks' pick
By Zhao Rui | China Daily | Updated: 2007-06-30 07:37
NEW YORK: Stepping off stage at the 2007 NBA Draft in the Madison Square Garden theater on Thursday night (Friday morning Beijing Time), Yi Jianlian looked confused. He neither rode a bicycle on stage, as he had joked, nor burst into wild excitement.
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Yi Jianlian of China smiles as he wears a Milwaukee Bucks cap after being selected by the team as the sixth overall pick at the 2007 NBA Draft at Madison Square Garden in New York on Thursday. Reuters |
Against all the odds, China's hoop treasure was picked sixth by the Milwaukee Bucks, a team he had not considered up to that point.
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