Yi Jianlian is set to enter this years NBA draft, and is expected to go somewhere in the top ten.  He will be sorely missed by all of China's 1,321,851,888 people, but no where more than the research lab where he was born. 

Yi as a young boy (left).              A PRFFDW scientist at work (right). 

 Yi Jianlian is only the second Chinese NBA quality player born it captivity, to be released into the wild.  Scientists around the Peoples' Research Facility For Dominating Western Sports (PRFFDW), expressed both sorry and worry.  "It makes me really sad to think that he will be all alone outside of the Lab and our glorious country," said one scientist.  "Who will make his rice porridge every morning?"

Above: Yi's agents the Peoples' Agents Representing the Peoples' Athletes

Still, Yi's agents, the Peoples' Agents Representing the Peoples' Athletes, have promised that Yi will be sent to a suitable US city.  "We will guarantee that comrade Yi is sent to a US city that has many Chinese restaurants, MSG in every grocery store, and whose team wears a red uniform."

Pictured above is the future Chinese all star team inside their flesh incubators.

  Although all the scientists at the PRFFDW are sad to see Yi go, they agree that their work must go on.  "Once we were a country which only managed to dominate Ping Pong on the world stage, now we have two players in the NBA.  We have come a long way, but there is still farther to go."

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