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 BEIJING (AP) - They love Yao. Now comes Yi — Yi Jianlian, the 7-foot power forward who will be among the top choices in Thursday's NBA draft.
He'll be the fourth Chinese to make the NBA, but will he have the impact of the Houston Rockets' Yao Ming? Or will his stay match the short, modest NBA careers of Wang Zhizhi and Mengke Bateer?
Yi (pronounced Ee) is a mystery in a draft in which Greg Oden and Kevin Durant are expected to go 1-2. Speculation has Yi going as high as No. 3, and most think he'll be picked in the top 10.
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