Coming of (Correct) Age for Yi?

Despite averaging 9.7 points and 6 rebounds a game, 2nd-year New Jersey Nets Yi Jianlin could still make it into the All-Star game with the online voting support of his fellow Chinese. Online voters select 2 guards, 2 forwards and 1 center for the Western and Eastern squads. Right now, Yi's in third place, but with a voting surge from China, it's not unforseeable to see him leap-frog K.G. to secure a spot as the most undeserving NBA All-Star game starter ever.
Player	Votes
LeBron James (Clev)	1,259,764
Kevin Garnett (Bos)	905,506
Yi Jianlian (NJ)	762,162
Chris Bosh (Tor)	500,700
Paul Pierce (Bos)	313,474
Shawn Marion (Mia)	210,040
Hedo Turkoglu (Orl)	137,035
Danny Granger (Ind)	116,238
Josh Smith (Atl)	110,186
Michael Beasley (Mia)	100,257
Tayshaun Prince (Det)	98,262

While the above is apparent good news for (young?) Yi, the following is yet another piece of evidence inflaming the growing tinder heap of allegations that Jianlian is not now the freshly-minted 21-year-old he'd have us believe he is, but rather someone quite older (cue "Murder She Wrote" music)

From Interbasket.net

Breaking: Document Suggests Yi Jianlian 3-Years Older than Reported">Breaking: Document Suggests Yi Jianlian 3-Years Older than Reported

Recent evidence referencing a Sports Illustrated-China piece suggests that Yi Jianlian, the 7-0 forward from Heshan City, China, is much older than 21 years old, as all his official NBA profiles report.

The document is Yi’s senior registration form at Binhe Middle School, which has a picture of a young Yi and seems to have been filled out by Yi himself. The form is from 1997 and lists his date of birth as Oct. 27, 1984, and not October 27, 1987 as it’s found on NBA.com.

You can see in the image to the left, on the first line next to Yi Jianlian’s photo that it shows his birth date to be 1984.10.27 (click on the image to make it larger)

For more information and discussion, please check out our discussion thread dedicated to this. You can also see the full document in this thread (not that it’ll do you much good unless you can read Chinese).

Since Jianlian has become an NBA prospect to being a player with the New Jersey Nets, rumors and controversy surrounding the Yi’s real age has followed him where ever he has been.

And Yi has asserted in the past that his birthyear is 1987, and he has also denied to answer any questions concerning his age “I have no comment on that,” Yi said through translator Roy Lu back when when the then supposed-19-year old was on his way to his first practice with the Milwaukee Bucks.

No word on whether this document was discovered during a recent crackdown that found at least 36 Chinese players “age-shaving” or lying about their ages in order to qualify for youth tournaments. Chinese authorities have pledged to put an end to age fraud, which apparently is very common in China.