Even though Yao and the Chinese national team are out of the World Championships, you can still see Rockets forward Shane Battier and new Rockets guard Vassilis Spanoulis of Greece play against each other on Friday. They play live on ESPN2 at 3:30am Eastern time.

Both teams are undefeated. Whoever loses cannot win the Championship, so it should be a great game.

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