Yi, Back in China, Helps Organize Earthquake Relief
by Net Income on Apr 23, 2010 8:58 AM EDT
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Within days of the end of the season, Yi Jianlian was back in China, attending the Chinese Basketball Association playoffs and helping to fund and organize relief efforts for the country's latest earthquake victims in the northwestern Qinghai Province. The death toll now stands at 2,187, 10 days after the quake struck.
Before one of the nationally televised playoff games, Yi donated $30,000 to the earthquake relief efforts, and asked the audience to help out as a "patriotic force"--"I will appeal to everyone, put up your hand to support the disaster area. Even if you can not directly transfer this love to the disaster areas, please pass this message to each of the people around you."
Yi and Yao Ming won universal praise in 2008 for their relief efforts when a much stronger earthquake killed at least 68,000 people in Sichuan province. Yi has sponsored a school in the earthquake zone, visiting it frequently.
- Grey Wednesday (Machine Translation) - Yi Jianlian - Sina.com
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Love him or hate him
It is undeniable that Yi should be considered for the citizenship award. A philanthropist.
And so said the old man!
HAHAHAHAHAHA
I guess to deal with this past season, we have to have a sense of humor, but Nets fans have to be the funniest fans in the NBA.
by JohnFromLongIsland on Apr 23, 2010 9:33 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
I know Yi is a seven-footer but the other dude holding the check can’t be much of five foot judging by that photo…
Great work by Yi though. KJV is right.
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Always nice to see when athlet gives back to society
Nice job Yi! You just won 1% of my heart back. The rest can be won by improving your game.
Kudos....
To the Mighty Yi for putting in the good work
"No one stands on the top of the world. Not you, not me, not even gods. But the unbearable vacancy of the throne in the sky is over. From now on...I will be sitting on it."
Fwiw...
…back in 2008, I was a co-organizer for a fundraising concert to benefit the China Earthquake relief efforts in NYC (concert featured guys like Nas, Ryan Leslie, JYP, and bunch of BBoys from Planet B-Boy)…it happened to coincide right around the time when Yi was in NJ to officially sign with the Nets. We called the Nets to ask if he was available to be a guest at the event. Unfortunately, the timing didn’t quite work out (he had to leave back to China for prior commitments the day before our concert actually happened), but the Nets told us he really wanted to do it and was bummed he couldn’t.
Great showing.
We would like to see professional athletes participating in community and charity work. Way to go, Yi! Basketball is not everything after all.
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