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Better Red Than Benched: 5 More NBA Players We'd Like To Send To China

With Stephon Marbury going to the Chinese Basketball Association, we've got a starting lineup of ballers who could easily join him.

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"They've still got Google in China, right? Right?!"

Trade deficit? What trade deficit? China sends us lead paint-laden toys to poison our infants, and we send them crazy professional basketball players to sell cheap shoes and smash their interns. Sounds fair, right?

Over the weekend, the Shanxi Zhongyu Brave Dragons of the Chinese Basketball Association announced that they had signed former Timberwolves, Nets, Suns, Knicks, and Celtics guard Stephon Marbury to a contract for the remainder of this season. It appears to be a "It can't get any worse" type of sitch for both sides: Marbury hadn't been picked up by an NBA team since finishing with the Celts last season, and the Brave Dragons have been playing more like Meek Lizards this year, currently 15th in a 17-team league. But who are we kidding, it's gotta be the shoes, right? Just in case Steph wants a little company, we've got five more NBAers who would be a good fit in the land of pandas and smoking toddlers...

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