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Who did Yao Ming draft for?
NBA.
What team was he part of?
Sharks.
Li also influenced Yao to sign a contract for Evergreen Sports Inc.
to serve as his agent.
What else did he do outside of the NBA?
Wang Zhizhi refused to return to China to play for the national team and was subsequently banned from playing for China.
Did he compete in the olympics?
CANNOTANSWER.
What else did he do during this article?
Yao with the first pick of the draft, he became the first international player ever to be selected first overall without having previously played U.S.
college basketball.
What position did he play?
CANNOTANSWER.
What else did he do in this article?
When Yao decided to enter the 2002 NBA draft, a group of advisers was formed that came to be known as "Team Yao".
Are any of the advisers named in the article?
Erik Zhang; his NBA agent, Bill Duffy; his Chinese agent, Lu Hao.

Question: What did the advisers advise him to do?
Self-contained rewrite: What did Erik Zhang, Bill Duffy and Lu Hao advise Yao Ming to do?