Matt Beyer, a former interpreter for Chinese star Yi Jianlian who played for the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks, co-founded the EASL operator with former JP Morgan analyst Henry Kerins in Hong Kong. They’re hoping their new big-name investors will help boost an annual tournament that streams to some of the world’s largest and most engaged social media audiences.
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Yi Jianlian
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Born: 06/21/91
Height: 7-0 / 2.13
Weight:229 lbs. / 104.3 kg.
Earnings: $14,085,936 ($17,680,282*)
Born: 06/21/91
Height: 7-0 / 2.13
Weight:229 lbs. / 104.3 kg.
Earnings: $14,085,936 ($17,680,282*)
The captain of the Chinese national team Yi Jianlian became the all time leading scorer in the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) in an away game on Thursday, leading Guangdong Southeast Tigers to ease past Tianjin Pioneers 140-93 in the eighth round of the league. Yi contributed 20 points for the visiting team in the match on Thursday as his total score rose up to 11,177 points, surpassing 11,165 points by his long-time teammate Zhu Fangyu.
The Chinese selection will play against Poland, Venezuela and Cote d’Ivoire. Abudushalamu Abudurexiti, Fang Shuo, Guo Ailun, Makan Kelanbaike, Ren Junfei, Sun Minghui Wang Zhelin, Yi Jianlian, Zhai Xiaochuan, Zhao Jiwei, Zhao Rui, and Zhou Qi.
For China, Guo Ailun banked 22 while Yi Jianlian was right behind with 20 points. Wang Zhelin added 15 and Zhou Qi ten points. Fang Shuo dished game-high ten assists along with his five points.
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Search Google for “Yi Jianlian chair” and there are tens of thousands of results. The chair became a running joke in Bill Simmons’s writings and podcasts, and the then-ESPN columnist even went so far as to bestow Yi with a nickname that stuck: “Chairman Yi.”
The thing is, the chair workout almost certainly never happened, which means that the video almost certainly never existed. I’ve spoken with numerous scouts, execs, players, trainers, and media members, and not one remembers ever actually seeing the clip. I’ve obtained the broadcast-once, now-lost TV program in which the chair workout was allegedly aired, and it’s not there. No matter how sure you are you’ve seen the clip, you haven’t.
