Sleepless in Milwaukee

I was going to write my last NBA Draft blog this week, but after the latest installment of “How Yi Jianlian Turns,” I had to extend it for at least a week. It is not often that a top-10 player refuses to play for the team that drafts him, so I had to write about it. Yi was drafted by Milwaukee even though he had previously made it clear that he did not want to play there. He had not invited the Bucks to his private workout, and had expressed concern about the fact that there were only 1,200 Asian-Americans in the city, approximately the same amount of people who saw Gigli in theatres.