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Americans for a briefing on China’s Yi Jianlian

Bucks official website of the season launched a player to answer a question by the fans columns month Bucks have two players responsible for the fans answered five questions, and these questions have to come from a local school fifth grade students. — December 22, the official website contains Yi Jianlian answer these questions on the contents of fans:

Q: you and your family to celebrate the most important holiday?

Yi Jianlian: In China, the New Year is a very important holiday, as Americans celebrate Christmas the same. Generations of people gathered in a one, eat together, have a wonderful time.

Q: Do you or do in the United States to see what is the best thing? Please explain the reasons.

Yi Jianlian: I have seen the most happy thing is that in the November 21 we are playing the Lakers after the game outside suddenly began to snow. That the scenery is very beautiful, in this environment was also very fun game.

Q: I talk about your hometown. More like you live there or here? Why?

Yi Jianlian: My hometown is in Shenzhen City of Guangdong Province, where part of southern China. According to Chinese standards, Shenzhen is not a big city, but there is a very prosperous, vibrant and passionate city. I very much cherish the memories of growing up there, but I also really enjoy my life here, everything is fresh, new experience and a new environment, every day we will encounter new people.

Q: Dear easy, when you live in China when you visited the Great Wall? If you visited there told me what is like?

Yi Jianlian: Yes, when I was young when I visited. I find it difficult to rely on language to describe the experience, all I can say is that you must personally to visit, you can understand how spectacular it, how great.

Q: I have never been to China. If I ever visit to China, I should try to look at things or what? Yi Jianlian: China’s vast land, there are many places are worth. I think you should go to Beijing to see the Great Wall, the Forbidden City, etc. many places. In addition, you should go to some of China’s ancient capital of Xi’an, look for Terra Cotta Warriors, it is buried in the ground floor of a Chinese army soldiers pottery figurine

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NBA stars Hanukkah greetings

NBA stars Hanukkah greetings

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NBA TV Top 10: November 14

NBA TV Top 10: November 14

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NBA Draft

The NBA Draft is an annual North American event in which the National Basketball Association’s (NBA) thirty teams (29 in the United States and one in Toronto, Canada) can select players who wish to join the league. These players usually come from college level, but in recent drafts a greater number of international and high school players have been drafted. As of the 2006 NBA Draft high school players gain eligibility for draft selection one year after their graduating class has finished high school, but only if they also are at least 19 years of age as of the end of the calendar year of the draft

  Structure

The order of the NBA Draft depends upon the previous season’s record but a lottery is also used to determine the order that the teams choose their draft picks. However, unlike the NFL Draft, the top pick is selected by a team with one of the worst records. See main article NBA Draft Lottery for more information.

Selection process

All U.S. players are automatically eligible upon the end of their college eligibility. Through 2005, U.S. players were also allowed to declare eligibility for the draft at any time between high school graduation and the completion of college eligibility. International players could declare eligibility in the calendar year of their 18th birthday, or later.

Starting with the 2006 NBA Draft, the eligibility rules have changed:

  • All players, regardless of nationality, must be at least 19 years old during the calendar year of the draft.
  • A player who completed basketball eligibility at a U.S. high school, regardless of nationality, must also be at least one year removed from the graduation of his high school class.

This age limit for draftees is part of the new collective bargaining agreement between the league and its players union.

The NBA has established two draft declaration dates. All players who wish to be drafted, and are not automatically eligible, must declare their eligibility no later than 60 days before the draft. After this date, prospective draftees may attend NBA pre-draft camps and individual team workouts to show off their skills and obtain feedback regarding their draft positions. A player may withdraw his name from consideration from the draft at any time before the final declaration date, which is 10 days before the draft. A player who declares for the draft will lose his college eligibility, even if he is not drafted, if any of the following is true:

  • The player signs with an agent.
  • The player has declared for and withdrawn from a previous draft. Although the NBA collective bargaining agreement allows a player to withdraw twice,[1] the NCAA only allows one withdrawal.

When a player is selected in the first round of the draft, the team that selected him is required to sign him to at least a one-year contract. Teams own the rights to players selected in the second round for three years, but the teams are not required to sign them.

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How Does the NBA Draft Work?

How Does the NBA Draft Work?

  By C.Y. Ellis
07.27.2005 - Updated on 08.8.2005

Contrary to what some may tell you, the workings of the NBA draft are, in fact, relatively simple. This brief tutorial is all you need to get to grips with the annual event that decides where some of the world’s most talented players will end up.

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Top 10 Dunks NBA

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Slam Dunk Contest 2006

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