Sun Yue, too.
The Knicks are making a third addition to the training camp roster. Sun Yue, the lanky point guard out of China, will join the club in Saratoga on a partially guaranteed contract, Howard Beck reports. Sun played sparingly with the Lakers last year, but stuck around long enough to become the first ethnic Chinese player to win an NBA title (I can't seem to find who the first champion from China was, but I'd like to know). Sun's a longshot to ever get backcourt minutes, but the idea of a spindly 6'9'' guard running amok in the D'Antoni offense is intriguing, even if, as Mr. Sham says, "he's not a good shooter, he's very weak, he can't and won't rebound, he doesn't understand positioning at all, and his defense is amongst the worst you've ever seen". Actually, reading Mark's analysis just pretty much drained all the intrigue from the signing, but whatever.
Between this signing and that of former Celtic Gabe Pruitt, it's clear that Donnie Walsh is committed to adding some championship experience to his middling team. Lovely.
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always thought he was from mongolia
turns out he’s from inner mongolia, which is in china. well done. go blow a yak.
i actually had no idea he'd won a ship
but the wording on that “first ethnic chinese dude to win an nba championship” made me wikipedia mengke bateer instinctually, just like any other normal person would do. then i remembered his pivotal performances for the 02-03 spurs, weird that david robinson didn’t invite him to his hof induciton
oh, and
it’s cool that just like our summer league roster, our m.o. on building a training camp roster is just assembling various peripheral nba players. i genuinely enjoy that.
why we haven’t invited morris almond and nik tskitishvili yet is beyond me though
Tski-ta! Tski-ta!
Summer warrior, man.
Josh Davis has signed overseas, or MSG fans would be following his exploits this season.
LOL at that scouting report...
It seems that other than being 6"9 and possibly being able to dribble, this guy can’t even play basketball.
And I agree Barnes, semi-seriously I guess, that Skita and MO Nuts deserve to get a camp invite.
What the f$%k is the internet?
put chinese guys on the floor at the garden
and you’ll never get tickets again.
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im waiting for the day
a hasidic jew comes to the garden and lights a fire under everybodys ass. can you think of any other team that would be a better fit lol
i was actually readin on tamir goodman a few weeks ago
“the jewish jordan”, who was a big deal back in the late 90’s. turns out hasidic jews are rare pro basketball players are pretty rare even in israel, he’s the first one to make it to the top level of israeli basketball.
point being, i’d settle for just a regular jew. think we can convince sun yue to convert?
i remember tamir goodman
but i thought a doron shaeffer reference wouldn’t even work, much less a tamir goodman reference. doesn’t matter though really because david lee is jewish.
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im ashamed to say that i never knew
that dlee was jewish,
wikipedia says yes
but has no citation
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by stingy d on Sep 14, 2009 1:28 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
if you want...
I’ll edit Wikipedia to say Lee is Jewish
What the f$%k is the internet?
by FreeBradshaw on Sep 15, 2009 8:02 PM EDT up reply actions
Watch out
I hope nobody on the team finds a surprise in their Coke.
"Ariza on Mobley, trying to put some chillin on his thrillin"
"Vexing D, makes you hurry, makes you worry"
by Serious Garbage Time on Sep 23, 2009 2:45 PM EDT reply actions

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