200 million strong.Yi(ng) and Yang (Ming) NBA Special Event.

 

Tonight an expected 100 to 200 million people are going to be watching the Milwaukee Bucks vs. The Houston Rockets NBA basketball game.

Less than that watched the most watched US televisionThe reason being Chinese stars, Yao Ming (Michael) 姚明; & Yi Jilian (Scottie)  易建聯 are going to match up against each other for the first time. They have ben teammates for the Chinese National Basketball team, but that isn’t NBA basketball, now is it?

In the HOUSTON CHRONICLE, Jonathan Feigen writes “this is what NBA Commissioner David Stern had in mind that night of the 2002 NBA draft when, with visions of a vast global market waiting to be conquered, he called out the name Yao Ming. This will be a night that seemed impossible a few years ago when a November game between the Rockets and the Milwaukee Bucks represented anything but what tonight’s game will be, a must-have ticket and an international sporting event.” history, M.A.S.H.The reason being Chinese stars, Yao Ming (Michael) & Yi Jilian (Scottie) are going to match up against each other for the first time. They have ben teammates for the Chinese National Basketball team, but that isn’t NBA basketball, now is it?The game will be on at 7:30 Central on FFSN, Satellite and Broadcast to over 100 million homes in China.