Meet the 7-foot-2 20-year-old (supposedly) that could be an option for the Sixers at the end of the first round.
For a country that is crazy about basketball, it is strange there hasn't been a Chinese player drafted into the NBA since Yi Jianlian almost a decade ago. Back then, even Yao Ming was buying into the hype of Yi by suggesting he resembled a ‘taller Amar'e Stoudemire' (no, really...) and the Milwaukee Bucks took him with the fourth pick of the 2007 draft. Yi's stock was so high, he initially refused to move to Wisconsin and then-Bucks owner and standing Democratic senator Herb Kohl was forced to fly to Hong Kong and persuade their pick to change his mind.