SPORTS :: NBA PLAYERS LIE ABOUT THEIR AGES?
POST by NVus
There was questions on a few of the olympians during the SUMMER GAMES in Beijing now it comes up with a few of the NBA players. This is not suprising to me at all, it just shows you what people will do to insure a position, a job. Anyway to get around something, but lying about your age is major. I hope they can get to the bottom of this and I am sure there will be other names come up in this story.
BEIJING (AP)—NBA player Yi Jianlian is being investigated by a Chinese-language magazine which claims he is one of many of the country’s athletes guilty of lying about their age on official documents.
Yi, who plays for the New Jersey Nets, has long been reported in the Chinese media to be older than his records show. Earlier this month, China’s Sports Ministry reported that it found 36 players in China’s professional basketball league whose dates of birth may have been changed.
The December issue of the Chinese-language edition of Sports Illustrated said a reporter for the magazine found records from Yi’s middle-school registration in his hometown in southern China that said he was born in 1984.
His official basketball records say he was born in 1987. He is also listed by the Nets as being born Oct. 27, 1987.
VIA SYAHOO
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