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I totally agree with you Adam Sandler.

LOL! That's funny!

Just think had Yi been able to go to a bigger city more chinese influence. Match ups like these would bee sell outs just from the Asian community. That's the only downfall in this so far. I also must admit Yi has exceeded expectations ans has shown he was worth the drama. This is definitely a bright spot for the the nba, because they haven't had too many lately

The Adam Sandler call is funny, but Sandor makes a great point , the NBA is bound for Asia, especiually with resources and money available ... author is on-point

To 'I mean Oly Sandor' and 'Opps they did it again', Happy Gilmour remains my favorite guilty pleasure flick of all time ... In fact, my friends and I always recreate the Bob Barker scene on the pitch-and-putt course ... Thanks for reading and thanks for the compliment-even if that wasn't the intention!

Yo the Adam Sandler punch-line, funny! Anyway I agree with the rest of you, that this is the positive for the nba

Call him Sandler or Sandor it don't matter-his work is all good. Great call on the Asian market. This was under-reported, the future is abroad for Stern

This is a wakeup call to US citizen Basketball Players. Because talents comes with discipline and attitude. International players have that traits. Stern awakening that future is not bound only to US is frightening to US Basketeers but Glorious to NBA to reach Global Profit.

I was born and raised in the United States of America. My first car was Ford and my favorite foods are steak and burgers off the grill. Hell I even made the mistake of voting for George W. As an American and someone who would have not voted for Yi Jianlian, I must say that the NBA's decision to leave Yi off the All-Star ballot yet put Luis Scola and Durant on is a very regrettable decision. Already the AFP has reported that the Chinese government and media have turned this into an issue (and rightfully so.) I believe this is a clear act of racism against Chinese.One can argue all they want that this was done because somehow Yi was left off because of uncertain minutes but that is clearly not the case. Villanueva's minutes were just as uncertain as Yi's. The real reason why Yi was left off was because of the NBA's fear that the voting population in China would have stuffed the ballot box.What is the All-Star game really about? Is it really about the best players in the East playing the best in the West? It really isn't. If this was the case then the NBA shouldn't allow fans to vote at all and have either the coaches or the players pick them. They should also take off from the ballot all players who might gain the popular vote because of past heroics despite their current lackluster performance. It's not right that players like Shaq or Cal Ripken Jr. play in an All-Star game when they are clearly past their prime. (I voted for Cal and would do so again.) Now if the NBA is really worried about players getting an unfair representation because of nationality why put Scola on the ballot? All logic would have Scola's European and Argentine fans placing higher number of votes than his performance would have warranted. Any way you argue it the facts remain. The All-Star game is about fans. From the television ratings received from the latest Rockets-Bucks matchup, there are at least 200,000,000 NBA fans in China. There level of NBA fanaticism is debatable but that number watched the hyped Yao versus Yi Superbowl. The NBA's second biggest market in the world is in China. That said, the NBA has made many efforts to profit off of its newly gained popularity in China by selling jerseys, NBA licensed products and advertising from television rights. It appears that the NBA clearly wants the Chinese NBA fan bases' money but not their right to vote as a fan.