I know I haven’t been kind to Yi Jianlian recently (though, I’ve certainly never eviscerated him the way Kelly Dwyer did this morning at Ball Don’t Lie), but his trade yesterday to the Washington Wizards for Quinton Ross does mark the end of an era for one of the more fascinating players in Nets history. There clearly wasn’t a more polarizing figure amongst Nets fans, as we all seemed to be battling between the mounds of potential he oozed and his lack of basketball IQ which led to some maddening mistakes. In an effort to be kind, I thought I’d go back to happier times and repost a video I did on Yi when he first returned from injury in December. In typical Yi fashion, it’s one of the more highly viewed videos I’ve done in my short NAS tenure:
