So the NBA players in China are screwed until March?
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Americans so stupid ? with the Chinese.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=aw-wojnarowski_china_nba_players_112811
China could block NBA players return
By Adrian Wojnarowski, Yahoo! Sports 6 hours, 52 minutes ago
The Chinese Basketball Association is showing no inclination to let unhappy NBA players out of their contracts for the 2011-12 season, and will likely mandate they not receive clearance letters to return to the NBA until the Chinese season ends in March, sources told Yahoo! Sports.
Wilson Chandler(notes), Kenyon Martin(notes), J.R. Smith(notes) and Aaron Brooks(notes) are the four top NBA players under contract in China, and several sources involved in those contract entanglements said escape clauses won’t be allowed with the impending end of the NBA lockout.
The Chinese Basketball Association passed a rule that its teams could sign only NBA free agents during the lockout, and it was made clear to those players they would have to play the full season to be given FIBA clearance letters to sign contracts with NBA teams.
J.R. Smith is one of three Nuggets free agents playing in China.
(NBAE/Getty Images)
Smith has had multiple clashes with his team, and some Chinese officials fear players becoming obstinate and purposely missing practices and games once they realize they’ll be held to their contracts.
Team officials have prepared for the possibility some players could try to force their way out of deals, but their contracts give teams the latitude to fine and suspend players without pay. Chinese teams invested heavily when they signed NBA players, also providing hotel suites, personal drivers and chefs to make the players more comfortable.
“They can play, get paid [in China] and return to the NBA in March,” one Chinese team official said. “Or they can not get paid, and return to the NBA in March.”
As a member of FIBA, the NBA needs a letter of clearance from Chinese teams to allow players to sign NBA deals. Chinese teams could face forfeiture of any games that NBA players participated in, if the players somehow end up back in the NBA before the Chinese season ends.
“If they think that they’re going to make things difficult, not play, create problems, what’s going to happen is that the teams will not release their letters of clearance they’ll need to sign in the NBA,” a Chinese Basketball Association official told Yahoo! Sports. “There’s no way out.”
Smith, Chandler and Martin, who signed a $3 million contract with the Xinjiang Guanghui Flying Tigers, played for the Denver Nuggets a season ago, but the team has interest in re-signing only Chandler, league sources said. Chandler was a key player for the Nuggets after the Carmelo Anthony(notes) trade with the Knicks.
So far, Chandler – averaging 43 points for the Zhejiang Guangsha Lions – has been the most dominant player in the Chinese Basketball Association. On and off the floor, Chandler has required far less maintenance than his two former Nuggets teammates. Smith has constantly clashed with Zhejiang Chouzhou Golden Bulls officials since arriving in China, and the complaints about him include missed practices, allegedly faking injuries and relentless demands on living conditions and transportation.
Yi Jianlian(notes) can return to the NBA immediately because he has a Chinese passport that allowed him to sign with the Guangdong Hongyuan Southern Tigers regardless of the league’s NBA free-agent rule. He’s expected to be sidelined two to three weeks after spraining his right knee in a recent game, but plans to sign with an NBA team after free agency starts on Dec. 9.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=aw-wojnarowski_china_nba_players_112811
China could block NBA players return
By Adrian Wojnarowski, Yahoo! Sports 6 hours, 52 minutes agoThe Chinese Basketball Association is showing no inclination to let unhappy NBA players out of their contracts for the 2011-12 season, and will likely mandate they not receive clearance letters to return to the NBA until the Chinese season ends in March, sources told Yahoo! Sports.
Wilson Chandler(notes), Kenyon Martin(notes), J.R. Smith(notes) and Aaron Brooks(notes) are the four top NBA players under contract in China, and several sources involved in those contract entanglements said escape clauses won’t be allowed with the impending end of the NBA lockout.
The Chinese Basketball Association passed a rule that its teams could sign only NBA free agents during the lockout, and it was made clear to those players they would have to play the full season to be given FIBA clearance letters to sign contracts with NBA teams.
J.R. Smith is one of three Nuggets free agents playing in China.
(NBAE/Getty Images)
Smith has had multiple clashes with his team, and some Chinese officials fear players becoming obstinate and purposely missing practices and games once they realize they’ll be held to their contracts.
Team officials have prepared for the possibility some players could try to force their way out of deals, but their contracts give teams the latitude to fine and suspend players without pay. Chinese teams invested heavily when they signed NBA players, also providing hotel suites, personal drivers and chefs to make the players more comfortable.
“They can play, get paid [in China] and return to the NBA in March,” one Chinese team official said. “Or they can not get paid, and return to the NBA in March.”
As a member of FIBA, the NBA needs a letter of clearance from Chinese teams to allow players to sign NBA deals. Chinese teams could face forfeiture of any games that NBA players participated in, if the players somehow end up back in the NBA before the Chinese season ends.
“If they think that they’re going to make things difficult, not play, create problems, what’s going to happen is that the teams will not release their letters of clearance they’ll need to sign in the NBA,” a Chinese Basketball Association official told Yahoo! Sports. “There’s no way out.”
Smith, Chandler and Martin, who signed a $3 million contract with the Xinjiang Guanghui Flying Tigers, played for the Denver Nuggets a season ago, but the team has interest in re-signing only Chandler, league sources said. Chandler was a key player for the Nuggets after the Carmelo Anthony(notes) trade with the Knicks.
So far, Chandler – averaging 43 points for the Zhejiang Guangsha Lions – has been the most dominant player in the Chinese Basketball Association. On and off the floor, Chandler has required far less maintenance than his two former Nuggets teammates. Smith has constantly clashed with Zhejiang Chouzhou Golden Bulls officials since arriving in China, and the complaints about him include missed practices, allegedly faking injuries and relentless demands on living conditions and transportation.
Yi Jianlian(notes) can return to the NBA immediately because he has a Chinese passport that allowed him to sign with the Guangdong Hongyuan Southern Tigers regardless of the league’s NBA free-agent rule. He’s expected to be sidelined two to three weeks after spraining his right knee in a recent game, but plans to sign with an NBA team after free agency starts on Dec. 9.
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tough break?
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its over: 2012! wrote: »Here we go with these phaggitry threads, whole reason I was hoping for a cancelled season...bytches in heat, like t/s here, acting like J.R. Smith over there vagabonding and collecting/ redeeming aluminum cans for revenue
Dumb bytch.
He knew what he was getting into, when he signed, and so he did and ain't look back----unlike you bytches keep doing
WTF this bytch nigg talking about ole lame-ass, ? in the ? ass ? .
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Them ? knew what they was doin'... Denver Nuggets = ? this season.
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their fault. they knew what they was doing. they better just play and get that money
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Chandler seems to be cool with it,the other two throwing tantrums though.
They already should have known this, so they should just ? and play before the Chinese suspended them with no pay, cause they WILL do it, lol. -
lol feel bad for Nugget fans..
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Cant out think a asian
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Freedom isn't free they ain't put in that $1.05 it looks like
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Tommy bilfiger wrote: »ALL them ? knew there was no out clause it was made clear before they signed
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oh well none of the players mentioned are ones I care about
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can they just leave china without getting payed if they think the nba will pay them more?
edit: nevermind i just read it -
so rather than fill the yao ming gap and assure themselves an automatic nba all star game starting vote by lighting up the league and becoming an international basketball star and reaping all that china endorsement money; they plan on ? and moaning and squandering an opportunity in hopes of making china get sick of them and at best releasing them and at worst sit em to the side?
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so rather than fill the yao ming gap and assure themselves an automatic nba all star game starting vote by lighting up the league and becoming an international basketball star and reaping all that china endorsement money; they plan on ? and moaning and squandering an opportunity in hopes of making china get sick of them and at best releasing them and at worst sit em to the side?
Sounds like only J.R. Smith is doing that -
Thats a ? League if Wilson Chandler is Averaging 33 Points a game Lol
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they don't ? around in china i remember they told yao ming he better not let his child be born in the us b/c they not down with that dual citizenship ? . they want to own that child.
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any one else find it ironic they were waiting for the CBA to be done and are not getting ? over because they cant leave the CBA hahahahaha. Anyways these ? were dumb as ? to sign contracts that were so binding get a ? lawyer and logic ? middle of the road nba ? . They should have never had a contract like they did untill they found out the season was definently going to be cancelled.
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Like others said they knew what they were getting in to. Wilson Chandler can ball. I was expecting him to average a lot of points over there. The nuggets will be fine without Smith and k mart is a ? now.
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Monizzle14 wrote: »any one else find it ironic they were waiting for the CBA to be done and are not getting ? over because they cant leave the CBA hahahahaha. Anyways these ? were dumb as ? to sign contracts that were so binding get a ? lawyer and logic ? middle of the road nba ? . They should have never had a contract like they did untill they found out the season was definently going to be cancelled.
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if wilson chandler can average over 25 there, tracy mcgrady in his prime would average atleast 72
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I hate to call these brothers dumb without knowing them
personally, but who would go work in another country
on the other side of the globe, not to mention a communist
country, without a immediate opt out clause pending the
nba situation. -
They knew the deal before they went over there.
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Lurk_Hinrich wrote: »? correction 43 hahaha like how is that even possible.
the Real Article has 33ppg not what T/S posted
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But heres the thing, when March comes around can't w/e is a FA out of the three just sign to a team? I forget whats the deadline for that..
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Tommy bilfiger wrote: »ALL them ? knew there was no out clause it was made clear before they signed
Exactly... stupid move on their parts... and everyone knows that the Chinese aren't to be trusted -
These are stats from their 1st game of this season...WTF
Wilson Chandler small forward, Zhengjiang Lions
43 points, 22 rebounds, 4 assists, 3 steals
Stephon Marbury guard, Beijing Ducks
29 points, 7 rebounds, 6 assists, 3 steals
