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Hear Yi, hear Yi: With assist(s) from Bucks, rookie will flourish
Jan. 24, 2008
By Gregg Doyel
CBSSports.com National Columnist
MILWAUKEE -- Man-crush is too strong a phrase to describe the way I feel about Yi Jianlian. Wrong word, but it's in the right dictionary.
I like this guy. I like him off the court, and I like him on it. I don't like how the Milwaukee Bucks are nurturing him -- on the court or off it -- but that can change. That will have to change if the Bucks are going to stop being the Bucks, but seeing how the franchise recently adapted to its other precocious 7-footer, Andrew Bogut, there is hope for Yi yet.
Bogut was the No. 1 overall pick in the 2005 NBA Draft, and if you follow the NBA with something resembling a passing interest, you might be thinking he's a bust. While fellow 2005 first-rounders Deron Williams and Chris Paul are becoming stars on winning teams, Bogut has been a role player on a loser. After 2