Friday, September 12, 2008

The Lakers acquires Sun

The Los Angeles Lakers' decision to signed in China's basketball point guard Sun Yue to a multi-year contract is more of a business strategy than a team strengthening plan.

The so-called "Magic Johnson of China" has helped his country to an 8th place finish at the Beijing Olympics. He was averaging 6.8 points and 2.5 assists a game. The statistics are not so impressive in general, what more if we are talking about NBA standards.

The only consolation is that he's standing 6' 8" or 2.06 meters, which is quite tall for a point guard; but, still it would not be enough considering his lanky frame. How can he much physically with shorter but muscled guys like Dwane Wayde, Tony Parker, and even, Allen Iverson?

I guess the Lakers management is just after his millions, if not billions, of fans in China who would be watching every game of his ball club and patronizing almost any items pertaining to Lakers. Thus, expect Sun Yue to be fielded in every game by Coach Phil Jackson lest the huge viewership would be disappointed and dumped the TV rating of the NBA.

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