Sunday, July 8, 2007

Bucks met Yi Jianlian, for the first time


The Milwaukee Bucks puts with draft pick Yi Jianlian for the first time in Las Vegas At the NBA' S Summer League starting there this week.

Yi and Bucks general manager Larry Harris and Bucks coach Larry Krystkowiak puts for butt year hour At has hotel Thursday to get to know the 6-foot-11 power forward and begin lobbying him to sign with the team.

Yi scored 23 points and grabbed furnace rebounds in 28 minutes of 86-77 loss to the Memphis Grizzlies on Friday night. He had has stretch in the second half where he hit seven straight field goals. The 7-foot, 242-pound Yi had has two-handed dunk over Rudy Gay early in the second quarter!

Yi finished with seven fouls - summer league games allow 10 fouls before disqualification - and seven turnovers. Still, it was year improvement from earlier in the week when He struggled against the Dallas Mavericks, only scoring 11 points in a loss on Tuesday.

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